Department of Defense Policy

DoD Directive 6400.1, "Family Advocacy Program," August 23, 2004  This Directive establishes the Family Advocacy Program and assigns responsibilities for working to prevent family violence from occurring, identifying victims of abuse, assessing families experiencing domestic and child abuse, and providing treatment to those families.

DoD Instruction 6400.3, "Family Advocacy Program Command Assistance Team," February 3, 1989  This Instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibility, and prescribes procedures for implementation of the Family Advocacy Command Assistance Team (FACAT).  The FACAT helps local installation personnel in managing a case of child sexual abuse in a DoD out-of-home care program when multiple children are identified as actual or potential victims.

DoD Instruction 1402.5, "Criminal History Background Checks on Individuals in Child Care Services", January 19, 1993  This Instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibility and proscribes procedures for criminal history background checks for all existing and newly hired federal employees or contractors involved in the provision of child care services or in federal facilities to children under the age of 18.

DoD Instruction 1342.24, "Transitional Compensation for Abused Dependents," May 23, 1995, Incorporating Change 1, January 16, 1997  This Instruction implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for payment of monthly transitional compensation to dependents of members separated for dependent abuse.

DoD Instruction 6400.05, "New Parent Support Program (NPSP)," December 20, 2005  This Instruction implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures under DoD Directive 6400.1 for the New Parent Support Program (NPSP), a standardized Family Advocacy Program secondary prevention program for parents who are at risk of engaging in child abuse. The NPSP uses an intensive, voluntary home visitation model developed specifically for expectant parents and parents of children from birth to three years of age to reduce the risk of child abuse.

DoD Instruction 6400.06, "Domestic Abuse Involving DoD Military and Certain Affiliated Personnel," August 21, 2007, Incorporating Change 1, September 20, 2011  This Instruction establishes, implements, and updates domestic abuse policies and identifies and assigns responsibilities for preventing and responding to domestic abuse.  It includes provisions related to Military Protections Orders, Fatality Review, and other topics that are relevant in child abuse cases.

DoD 6400.1-M-1, "Manual for Child Maltreatment and Domestic Abuse Incident Reporting System," July 15, 2005  This manual prescribes procedures for completion and submission of information about substantiated and unsubstantiated reports of child maltreatment and domestic abuse incidents.

Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)) Memorandum, "Duration of Payment for Transitional Compensation for Abused Dependents," June 14, 2004 This Directive Type Memorandum (DTM) implements changes to the Transitional Compensation Program mandated by congressional legislation.