Listed below are general program supports for the use of and access to juvenile fire risk screening tools. These screening supports are intended for those Chautauqua County (NY) professionals and paraprofessionals (e.g., staff associated with Chautauqua County fire departments, law enforcement, schools, local medical or mental health clinics, medical staff, etc.) participating in the WCA Psychology Department 2006-2007 outreach fire risk screening program.

Program participants should be registered with WCA Psychology Department. As such, you should have received a letter of introduction to the fire risk screening program, a starter kit that includes a laminated tri-fold field version of the Family Risk Survey, and a computer CD containing an EXCEL scoring program for the Family Risk Survey. Contact us (664-8556) if you are a Chautauqua County professional provider or facility and are interested in participating in the WCA Psychology Department outreach juvenile fire risk screening program.

The links listed below contain the following information. A pdf reader is needed to review some contents of these links.

• FAMILY RISK SURVEY SCREENING (Ages 3-17) of fire setting risks links you to a pdf file containing the documentation for the Family Risk Survey Screening developed by Kenneth Fineman, 1996 (Published in the Colorado Juvenile Firesetter Prevention Program: Training Seminar, 1997). This pdf document includes the history, background survey, family ratings of a given child that constitute the screening questions, and hand scoring system with cutoff values.
• SCREENING INSTRUCTIONS button links you to a summary of the instructions to complete the Family Risk Survey screening of fire setting risks. Aspects of these instructions are redundant with information contained in the pdf file above for the Family Risk Survey.
• COMPUTER SCORING INSTRUCTIONS button links with a step-by-step procedure for using the EXCEL program sent to you in your program support kit.
• RESEARCH & REFERENCES button links with a pdf file of an overview article of fire setting concerns. This review of literature is a good background article for various professionals seeking to become familiar with juvenile fire setters..

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