Family Advocacy Program provides information and education designed to support strong, self-reliant families and to enhance coping skills. FAP offers a variety of classes to meet the needs of the entire family as well as victim advocacy and the New Parent Support Program.

The Family Advocacy Program is located in ACS, Bldg 548 on Second Street and is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 4:30pm. Give us a call at 760-380-4470.

Emergency Numbers:

* TO REPORT CASES OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT AND SPOUSE ABUSE ON FORT IRWIN: Call MP's: (760)380-4444 (24-Hour Line)

* TO REPORT CASES OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT AND SPOUSE ABUSE OFF POST: Call 911

ACS/Victim Advocate: (760)380-2409/2407/8357

ACS FAP Trainer: (760)380-5467

New Parent Support Program: (760)380-4021/8344

Sexual Assault Response Coordinator: (760)380-4474

Social Work Service: (760)380-6302

Army One Source (24hrs/140+ languages): 800-464-8107

Haley House Women's Shelter in Barstow: (760)256-3441

San Bernardino County Sheriff's Dept.: (760)256-1796

Barstow Police Dept.: (760)256-2211

Remember, calling 911 from a cell phone on Ft. Irwin will connect you with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Dept. Call 380-4444 to contact the Military Police. For the Ft. Irwin Fire Dept., call 380-3496

Intervention saves lives...keeping our families safe is everyone's business!

FAP Trainer Program:
Anger Management: A three-session class offered monthly to help one learn to recognize, understand, and manage their anger in more appropriate ways. Participants will also learn and practice relaxation techniques, a key component in maintaining emotional well-being.

Stress Management Class: Offered to individuals and groups including units, FRGs, Child Development, Family Child Care providers, government and civilian agencies. The goal of stress management is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to cope effectively with their particular sources of stress. Participants will learn to recognize their stress symptoms, identify sources of stress and utilize effective coping skills.

Couples Communication: This course is designed to help couples improve their communication. Common patterns of miscommunication are introduced and participants will learn a “safe” way to communicate. The class will talk about negative patterns in relationships and how to fight against them and not against each other.

Kids on the Block: An educational puppet program designed as a fun and interactive way to teach children about a variety of specific topics; personal safety, multiculturalism, child abuse, as well as physical and health differences among children's friends and classmates. ACS staff trains volunteer puppeteers and no prior experience is necessary.

Child Guidance: Positive Approaches for Positive Behavior: Care-providers and parents can benefit from learning appropriate techniques for dealing with children to promote their self-esteem while setting boundaries, which in turn results in improved child behavior. In this two-hour class you will learn to use positive language and how to provide a structured and consistent environment. Child-development, age appropriate behaviors, and non-physical discipline techniques will be introduced.

Child Abuse Identification, Prevention and Reporting: A two-hour class teaching and emphasizing the five types of abuse; physical, sexual, neglect, emotional, and verbal, as well as learning the effects of "Shaken Baby Syndrome". Participants also learn current California reporting laws, procedures, consequences of failing to report, and how the law can protect them in the event of reporting abuse/neglect to the authorities. Classes are open to parents as well.

Specialized Classes Upon Request

Good Touch/Bad Touch: Teaches children the difference between appropriate touching and inappropriate touching, and what a child should do if someone is inappropriate with them. This interactive class utilizes child friendly methods such as a puppet, flip chart, story time, and activity booklets, plus lots of opportunity for questions and answers.

Youth Anger Management: A two-hour class providing educational information to youth to help them identify and learn to modify their anger in more appropriate ways. Youth will also learn and practice various relaxation techniques.

Parenting for Prevention-How to Help Kids Be Sensible, Safe and Secure: A three-session class teaching parents how to stop enabling and begin empowering their children. This class incorporates positive approaches to parenting. The class topics include; Setting limits, Communicating, Teaching Children to Handle Anger Without Violence, and How to Teach Kids to Resolve Conflicts Without Violence.

If you would like more information, have a request, or would like to sign up for classes please call (760) 380-5467 or 380-4784.

New Parent Support Program: A program designed to provide supportive and caring services to military families with young children. Through a variety of programs including support groups, parenting classes, playmornings and infant care classes, the New Parent Support Program will help you learn to cope with stress and the everyday demands of parenthood. (760)380-4021

Victim Advocate Program: assists and provides support, information and referral to individuals and to victims of domestic violence, to include command and law enforcement support; Crisis Intervention, Options Counseling, Safety Planning, Legal Advocacy, Emergency Transportation and Relocation Assistance. (760) 380-4470
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Transitional Compensation: A congressionally mandated program, which authorizes temporary financial support and other benefits for family members who are victims of child or spouse abuse and whose spouse is being administratively discharged or court-martialed for the individuals abuse offense. (760) 380-4470

* Sexual assault is a crime
* Sexual assault is intentional sexual contact, characterized by use of force, physical threat, or abuse of authority, when the victim does not or cannot consent.
* Sexual assault includes rape, nonconsensual sodomy (oral or anal), indecent assault (unwanted, inappropriate sexual contact or fondling) or attempts to commit these acts.
* Sexual assault can occur without regard to gender or spousal relationship or the age of the victim.
* "Consent" shall not be deemed or construed to mean the failure by the victim to offer physical resistance. Consent is not given when a person uses force, threat of force, coercion or when the victim is asleep, incapacitated, or unconscious.
* Sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination that involves unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature between the same or opposite genders.
* Active Duty Military personnel now have the right to report a sexual assault, receive medical services and elect to deny consent for an investigation. This is called restricted reporting. Civilian dependents or spouses may not elect restricted reporting.

For questions or more information, please (760) 380-4474 or 380-4470