The Center for Public Policy (CPP) within Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and McChrystal Group facilitated monthly Workgroup meetings to develop a vision and goals for this purpose. The Workgroup first created a vision for their work: "Make Virginia the best state for service members, veterans, and their families to live, work, lead, and raise a family". This vision emphasizes a key strategic choice on the part of the Workgroup to extend benefits to children and spouses of veterans and service members in order to strengthen Virginia’s efforts towards becoming a more welcoming and supportive state for veterans, service members, and their families. Then, members worked together to establish six major goals in service of this vision.