ABSTRACT
The Family Intervention project (FIP) was sponsored by the Denver municipal courts and probation department. The family intervention project model is offered as one of multiple-family work in a single setting. It requires a high level of clinical skills on the part of the facilitators and has some inherent professional liabilities associated with the work. The FIP is predicated on the idea that gang adolescents and their families share many commonalities that are often dormant. Early experience with the FIP suggested that families are more responsive to other families with shared dilemmas than to professional clinicians, resulting in the design of multiple-family groupings. Many clinical assumptions are readily observable in the FIP model. All of the behaviors emitted by families relative to participation in the FIP are significant clinical indicators. In its original staging, the FIP was conducted in the juvenile court of Denver.
