The WhiteTrees Therapeutic Training Programme is a comprehensive, modular framework designed to equip our teams with the knowledge, skills, and practical strategies to support children and young people who have experienced trauma, adversity, or disrupted attachments. Our Training Programme ensures that our teams are equipped and confident in supporting each young person in WhiteTree’s settings to build brighter futures.
Our programme integrates:
Our WhiteTree’s 7 E’s Values – Encouraging, Educating, Equipping, Embracing, Empowering, Engaging, and Enriching children through relational and aspirational practice.
Trauma-Informed Practice – Ensuring safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment underpin all care.
Attachment Awareness and Relational Safety – Using PACE principles to repair relational wounds and promote secure attachments.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Integration – Helping children understand the link between thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and coping strategies. Lifestyle Medicine Principles – Supporting sleep, nutrition, physical activity, stress management, healthy relationships, and avoidance of risky substances.
WhiteTree Assessment Framework – Guiding structured evaluation of emotional, behavioural, risks, and social needs to personalise care plans. Integrated Medical, Psychological, and Social Model – Ensuring a holistic approach that meets biological, emotional, and social needs in a cohesive way.
Practical Application and Reflective Practice – Embedding learning into daily care routines, supported by supervision and scenario-based exercises.
Our program combines theoretical learning, interactive workshops, roleplay, case studies, and reflective practice to create a multi-dimensional training experience.
Why our WhiteTree’s Training Academy designs brighter futures:
Trauma-Informed and Relationally-Focused:
The program addresses the specific needs of children who have experienced trauma or adversity, prioritising relational safety, attachment repair, and emotional regulation, which are critical for recovery and wellbeing.
Holistic and Integrated Approach:
By combining medical, psychological and social perspectives, the program ensures that staff can address all aspects of a child’s development, from physical health and resilience to social engagement and mental wellbeing.
Evidence-Based Interventions:
Incorporating CBT, PACE, and lifestyle medicine ensures that care strategies are grounded in research and best practice, improving outcomes for children.
Practical and Skills-Based:
Roleplay, scenario workshops, and reflective practice enable staff to apply knowledge directly in residential settings, ensuring skills translate into effective daily care.
Personalised and Assessment-Guided:
The WhiteTree Assessment Framework ensures that interventions are tailored to each child’s needs, strengths, and challenges, supporting better engagement and long-term success. Our assessment emphasises growth and progression through consistency, stability, and routines.
Promotes Staff Confidence and Consistency:
Through structured learning and supervision, staff develop confidence, consistency, and reflective skills, which are key to maintaining safe, nurturing, and therapeutic environments. Our therapeutic teams; the Building Brighter Futures team and the Specialist team, provide ongoing learning opportunities and clinically informed guidance.
Focus on Wellbeing and Resilience:
Integrating lifestyle medicine alongside therapeutic interventions equips staff to help children develop healthy habits, emotional regulation, coping strategies, and resilience for lifelong wellbeing. It promotes staffs health and wellbeing and puts their needs central to being able to care for our young people.