The Fire Awareness and Intervention programme is a community based treatment programme for children and adolescents who light fires. This process evaluation involved interviewing 68 participants (adolescents, parents and caregivers, programme staff and external agency staff) over a 5 month period between September 2007 and February 2008.

The study aimed to:
- document the operation and characteristics of the programmes;
- examine program delivery practice and processes that contribute to success and failures;
- and identify factors associated with successful programme outcomes.

(This research was done in two-parts. Please see report# 98: 'An Outcome Evaluation of New Zealand Fire Service Fire Awareness and Intervention Programme' for the other outcome on this piece of work.)