Military Sexual Trauma (MST) - Defense Department Reports on Sexual Assault, Harassment, and Violence Prevention and Response Including Military Service Academies

This ebook provides abridged reproductions of two important Department of Defense references on military sexual trauma and assault: Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response: DoD Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Report On Sexual Assault In The Military - March 2010; Department of Defense Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the U.S. Military Service Academies: Academic Program - Year 2008-2009. Sexual assault is a crime that is incompatible with service in the United States (U.S.) Armed Forces. It undermines core values, degrades military readiness, subverts goodwill, and forever changes the lives of victims and their families. In 2005, the Department enacted the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program to encourage increased reporting of the crime, facilitate improved access to victim care, better organize response resources, and promote prevention. The Department‘s vision is to enable military readiness by establishing a culture free of sexual assault. The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) within the Office of the Secretary of Defense is responsible for the policy that supports this program and oversight activities that ensure its effectiveness. The Department of Defense (DoD) policy requires each Military Service to maintain its own SAPR program, investigate Unrestricted Reports of sexual assaults, and hold subjects appropriately accountable.

When the Department adopted SAPR policy in 2005, it used existing promising practices from the civilian community as a framework to shape the military‘s response system. This system comprises professionals from several disciplines who work as a team to provide expert care for victims worldwide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Victim care begins immediately upon the report of a sexual assault. At the heart of the sexual assault response system are the Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARC) and Victim Advocates (VA). Every military installation in the world, both in garrison and deployed, have SARCs and VAs who provide a human element to the Department‘s response. They assist victims by providing them with three fundamental principles of victim care: safety and security, a place to ventilate and to be validated, and the ability to predict and be prepared.

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