More than 90 high-level leaders gathered last month to help their successors benefit from more than 15 years of successes and challenges in work for military-affiliated families.
Designed by the Military Family Research Institute, the Battle Plan for Supporting Families Symposium aimed to increase effectiveness for a future generation of leaders in various positions of responsibility – across the federal government, corporations, nonprofit and educational institutions and communities – whose organizations touch military families. Current leaders heard presentations and took part in discussions about lessons learned from more than a decade of war-related family issues.
The goal is that by sharing their experiences, future leaders can benefit from prior experiences and better help military-affiliated families. The symposium also will produce materials that future leaders can use as they design resources and responses to benefit military members, veterans and their families. More information about symposium results will be forthcoming in future months.