Students often contact us to get ideas for developing school or class projects on the topic of juvenile firesetting. Juvenile firesetting is an excellent topic because it is a devastating problem in almost every community across the United States. The list below outlines just a few ideas for topics or activities relevant to stopping juvenile firesetting.

1. Create a fire safety curriculum for your school. Include lesson plans, activities, and multi-media presentations.
2. Design a school fire escape plan, and draw a map representing the exits, extinguishers, stairways etc. for the entire school.
3. Increase awareness in your community.
   • Design an informational flyer or brochure to mail to residents.
   • Organize a public event with informational seminars and speakers. Invite parents of school-age children and teens. Include representatives from residential sprinkler, smoke detector, and emergency ladder companies.
4. Organize a school assembly, and invite members of the local fire and police departments to speak about juvenile firesetting. Ask a representative of the local intervention program to review their program and resources.
5. Create fire-safety games, books and activities for elementary children.
6. Visit an elementary classroom and conduct your own firesetting workshop.
7. Teach a program on burn safety.
8. Teach a lesson on the fire triangle and different types of fuel how to extinguish each type of fire.
9. Hold a class where students act out (role-model) solutions to relevant situations to encourage positive decision-making.
10. Help your local juvenile firesetter program create a website for children/teens/parents to increase awareness of juvenile firesetting.
11. Make an informational video on fire safety.