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DA Form 5224-R handles one job: child development services (cds) child and family profile (lra). The official title is CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (CDS) CHILD AND FAMILY PROFILE. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is July 1989, status not stated, running 2 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Authority sits in two places. ACSIM owns the form, AR 608-10 says when it is raised and where it goes. Routine cases need neither read in full — the page itself carries the sequence. The entries are completed by their subject or by unit administrative staff working from what that person supplies.
Pick by how you will enter data: PDF, XFDL on offer. Typing means fillable pdf, where the boxes accept keystrokes and hold them on save. Handwriting means printable pdf, a flat page image sent straight to a printer. Neither version changes what appears on the page.
Use a full pdf reader, not the browser viewer. Browser viewers display fields they cannot always save, and the loss shows up only when you reopen the file — type one entry, save, reopen, verify, then fill the rest. The xfdl file is IBM Lotus Forms, used inside Army systems, and opens in the Lotus Forms Viewer alone — no pdf reader, no word processor.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- ACTY_HIGH
- ACTY_LOW
- ACTY_MOD
- AGE
- AGE_1
- AGE_2
- AGE_3
- AGE_4
- AGE_5
- ATTN_MOD
- ATTN_SPOR
- ATTN_SUST
- BED_TIME
- CAR_POOL
- CHILD_NAME
- CHILD_REL
- CHILD_REL_1
- CHILD_REL_2
- CH_BDATE
- CH_WORDS
- CH_WORDSB
- CH_WORDSB_1
- CH_WORDSB_2
- CH_WORDSB_3
Start at the top and get the header exactly right. Official spelling of the name, identification number, unit, date. Everything downstream finds the record through those entries; nothing else on the page has that consequence.
Tabbing beats clicking for coverage. The order was set at build time and tracks the page layout, so following it leaves no gaps. Boxes and buttons are clicked; where options are exclusive, one selection cancels another by design. Watch field width on long entries: one-line fields have no wrap, and what runs past the edge disappears in print though the screen still shows it. Move that text to remarks or a continuation. Never leave an inapplicable field empty — enter the nil mark, because a reviewer cannot distinguish a skipped question from a considered answer.
The signature closes the form and nothing precedes it. Draft status holds until it is applied, by hand or by an accepted electronic method. Countersignatures go in printed order, each dated at signing. Then one final read from the top, looking for the four recurring defects: empty mandatory fields, swapped digits in identification numbers, day-month inversion in dates, and residue from a reused file that goes forward as though intended.
Read the Privacy Act statement at the point it appears. Authority, purpose, routine uses, mandatory or voluntary — four facts, and they govern what you are about to enter. A completed copy holds personal data and takes the handling rules that attach to it.
The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.
Related forms are found by series and number. DA series documents under the same proponent or the same prescribing directive are commonly required as a set, and any form named on the face of this one goes forward with it. Assemble continuations, covers and transmittals before submitting, not after the query comes back.
Check the edition date before reusing a saved copy. Revisions come from the proponent without notice to you, and the printed date is the only version marker on the page. Already-submitted records under a superseded edition stand as filed; the change does not run backwards.
The files are copies of published Department of the Army forms. This site has no official connection, no authority to issue anything, and no basis for saying whether an office will accept a given submission. None of the text is legal advice. Real questions — entry, requirement, eligibility — belong with ACSIM or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5224-R?
- CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (CDS) CHILD AND FAMILY PROFILE
- Which edition is current?
- July 1989
- Who is responsible for this form?
- ACSIM
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL