Welcome, Colonel Jardine. I'm so happy to have you here today. Congratulations on this position. It is very good to see a woman in that seat. I'm very excited about this.
First of all, thank you for this report. I thought that it was very thoughtful.
In one of the recommendations, the first one, you talked about how the treatment plan “should be independent of the Veteran's treatment plan”. We know that a lot of family members—children and partners—are falling through the cracks. Of course, a veteran is not going to do well if the people surrounding the veteran are really struggling because of their service.
Could you talk about what that might look like? Why do you think it's so important that it be independent of the veteran's treatment plan?