Juvenile Fire Lighter Intervention Program

What is JFLIP?

The Juvenile Fire Lighter Intervention Program (JFLIP) is a free, confidential, Tasmanian-wide service to help families deal with child fire lighting behaviour.

Who is JFLIP for?

• The program is designed for primary school-aged children and their families.

• JFLIP may not be appropriate for all children, especially those with more complex behaviours. The staff involved in the program will let you know whether JFLIP is appropriate for your family, and may suggest other services that can help.

Does it work?

• JFLIP has provided assistance to over 500 children and their families.

• Research shows a success rate of over 90%. Most of the children who go through the program stop their unsafe fire behaviour.

What happens in the program?

• The program is delivered in your home by trained JFLIP firefighters.

• It is a family-based program, so ideally everybody who lives in the house will be involved.

The JFLIP firefighters will make several visits to your home. They will:

• Help you to manage your child’s fire lighting behaviour

• Teach you and your child how to make the home and family safe from fire

• Teach your child about the consequences of fire, and the difference between good fires and bad fires

• Help your child to take responsibility for their actions

• Help your child to feel good about themselves for being fire safe.