Executive Policy Proposal
The American Men and Boys Health, Readiness, and Opportunity Initiative
A five-year national and military strategy for health, purpose, family stability, education, work, and force readiness.
Health systems, education pathways, mentorship, fatherhood, workforce mobility, and readiness treated as one connected portfolio.
A serious strategy for health, readiness, and opportunity
This proposal frames the challenges facing men and boys as an interconnected national-readiness issue: preventable chronic disease, suicide mortality, educational disengagement, social isolation, weak pathways from school to skilled work, father involvement, and a clinically defined subset of hormonal or reproductive disorders.
The policy position
Build a national men-and-boys strategy around health, competence, connection, responsibility, and opportunity. Treat testosterone testing as one carefully governed clinical tool, never as the strategy itself.
Five-year outcomes
Reduce preventable mortality
Increase timely access to mental-health and substance-use care.
Improve functional health
Strengthen metabolic health, sleep, physical activity, and functional fitness.
Build career pathways
Support transitions into college, apprenticeships, credentials, service, or employment.
Strengthen families
Increase father engagement and family stability without coercive policy.
Expand quality mentorship
Scale screened, trained, and supervised mentors and coaches.
Protect clinical integrity
Evaluate testosterone deficiency safely and with fertility-conscious safeguards.
Seven coordinated pillars
Male Health, Prevention, and Reproductive Care
An accessible male-health pathway beginning with primary care.
Military Human Performance and Ethical Hormone Care
Clinical safeguards for the Department screening initiative.
Education, Physical Activity, and Career Pathways
Multiple high-status routes to adult competence.
Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Recovery
Services designed around how men actually enter care.
Fatherhood, Family Stability, and Relationship Capacity
Reducing barriers while protecting children and survivors.
Mentorship, Service, and Community Connection
Built on quality and safeguarding, not enrollment counts.
Work, Purpose, and Economic Mobility
Apprenticeships, credentials, reentry, and advancement.
Transmittal Letter
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
The Honorable Pete Hegseth
Secretary of War
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301
Mr. President and Mr. Secretary:
The United States has an opportunity to address a set of interlocking challenges affecting men and boys. These are not separate problems. Together, they influence family stability, workforce participation, community safety, military recruitment, retention, and readiness.
I respectfully request that you direct a 180-day interagency action plan; establish a White House Council on Men and Boys Health, Readiness, and Opportunity; authorize a five-year demonstration portfolio; and require an annual public scorecard that measures real outcomes rather than slogans.
America should pursue strength with discipline, compassion with accountability, and innovation with evidence. A serious national strategy for men and boys will strengthen women and children as well.
Brian C. Alston
Founder, ND Enterprises LLC
Developer, Multidimensional Moral Intelligence Analysis Framework (MMIAF)
Author, Relationship Literacy for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps
Read the complete proposal
The full PDF includes executive action, the evidence review, clinical guardrails, military workflow, governance, roadmap, budget, measurement, and appendices.
Download the Proposal PDFDocument note: TThe title "Secretary of War" is used as the authorized secondary title established by Executive Order 14347; the statutory office remains Secretary of Defense unless Congress provides otherwise. This proposal is a policy document and not individualized medical advice.
