Seeking new approaches to the old challenge of providing services at home to those who have served in the military, Gov. Charlie Baker last Friday created an Advisory Council on Veterans’ Services.

“This is a different age and a different time, and it’s going to be important for us to think about that as we go about creating strategies and deploying assets to support our men and women in uniform on a go-forward basis,” Baker said after signing an executive order creating the council and swearing in its members in his ceremonial office.

The 12-member council, which includes Secretary of Veterans Services Francisco Urena, will meet at least four times annually producing reports every year with recommended actions and ways to measure those actions’ effects on the lives of veterans in Massachusetts, according to the order.

Urena told the News Service there are 365,000 veterans in the Bay State, which has a total population of about 6.7 million people.

U.S. Army Reserves Staff Sgt. Sarada Kalpee, who is a 34-year-old active reservist and member of the new council, said she is interested in addressing the newer generation of veterans, who served in the wars that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

“We don’t self-identify. I know when I came back from Afghanistan I didn’t know veterans services existed,” said Kalpee, who took one tour of Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014 and is now the veterans’ service officer for Wellesley, Wayland, Weston, and Needham. Kalpee said when she returned home she was not at first aware of the state’s “welcome home bonus” - a $1,000 payment available to those who lived in Massachusetts a year ahead of a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.

A Roslindale resident, Kalpee said she did receive her welcome home bonus, which was “great, especially because when I came back from Afghanistan, raising two kids, I couldn’t find a job right away, so it was helpful.” Kalpee’s children are ages 8 and 10 and she has help raising them from family, she said.

U.S. Army National Guard Col. Andrea Gayle-Bennett, another member of the new council, said she is interested in finding support services for families that don’t fit the more traditional gender breakdown of a man in uniform and a wife at home, and wants to encourage opportunities for women in military careers.

“We have a challenge in the National Guard in mentoring and retaining women so that they can rise in the ranks,” said Gayle-Bennett, who has spent 33 years in the Guard.

Gayle-Bennett, a Lynn resident who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2009, has a husband and four grown children and she said her husband was “not interested” in activities for military spouses because “it’s all women.”

“When you think of a veteran spouse, you think of a woman. You don’t think of a man. So what programs are there for a female veteran’s spouse?” Gayle-Bennett asked.

At the same time veterans halls - such as the Veterans of Foreign War posts - have a history of being more male dominated.

“You think old men. You don’t think women,” said Gayle-Bennett. She said she was encouraged to hear that a woman became a VFW post commander in Beverly, and she said she started a military ministry at her church in Saugus and joined her local VFW post in Saugus.

Gayle-Bennett said she hoped to get a sense of the landscape of veterans’ needs before suggesting any solutions.

The council’s chairman is Mike Minogue, a West Point graduate who was an infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s Airborne and Ranger divisions during the Gulf War - where he earned a bronze star. He is now the CEO, president and chairman of Abiomed Inc.

The council’s other members are Kristine Babcock, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1988 to 1997; Andrew Biggio, a Marine who founded Boston’s Wounded Vet Run and TheyFoughtWeRide.com; Lauren Bond, who became a platoon sergeant and unit manager in the Marine Corps and now teaches at East Boston High School; Richard Gormley, who earned the cross of gallantry as a Marine in Da Nang during the Vietnam War and now owns a West Roxbury funeral home; Julie Hall, an at large councilor for Attleboro and retired Air Force colonel; Joseph Mitchell, who flew jets for the Air Force in the Persian Gulf and over Bosnia; Robert Mirabito, a former third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals who later joined the Disabled American Veterans Association; Victor Nunez-Ortiz, who joined the Marines in 2001 and is now chief operating officer of Veterans’ Advocacy Services; and Margaret White, a former Swampscott and Lynnfield police officer, who served as Camp Commander at Guantanamo Bay and then returned to the Massachusetts National Guard as assistant chief of staff, according to the governor’s office.