Jacqueline Simpson
President / Treasurer
Jacqueline Simpson, a retired nurse with 37 years of experience in the health care field as a certified medical nurse, certified obstetrics nurse, as well as a certified midwife of Jamaica WI. Mrs. Simpson maintained positions as Nursing Supervisor and a licensed Private Career School Teacher at Valuecare INC, where she trained Home Health Aides (HHA), from 2008-2014. She also functioned as the Director of Patient Care Services (DPS) at Assisted Home Care Services-NY, a home care agency, from 2010-2018.
Mrs. Simpson was a board member and leader of her church assembly, Harvestime Tabernacle, in New York, until her relocation to Atlanta, Georgia in 2018. Her leadership crossed over many departments while she served as a director at her assembly.
Mrs. Simpson currently holds licenses as a Registered Nurse in both New York and Georgia, a certificate in counseling and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health and Human Services from St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, NY. She is also a trained Sexual Assault Examiner (S.A.E), and is currently enrolled in the Legal Nurse Consultant Program at University of Georgia for Continuing Education.
Mrs. Simpson desires to use her experiences in a meaningful way to help and support our veterans.
Pauline Shand
Vice President / Secretary
“If I can help somebody as I pass along, then my living shall not be in vain.”
Pauline Shand have worked in the field of law from the age of 18 years as an intern at the Law office of Ballantyne and Beswick for two years in the Island of Jamaica, thereafter she pursued her two years study at the Jamaica Bar Association and became a certified paralegal working as a legal secretary at several law firm in Jamaica for over 16 years.
Pauline Shand migrated to the United States of American and picked up where she left off at an Elder Law office, as a legal secretary in the field of Estate Planning and Geriatric Care,
helping the elderly with care in their homes for 6 years. She also worked in long term care, Pharmacy as an Account Rep., and Secretary which facilities half way homes, drugs addiction treatment, group homes for children with their prescriptions drugs.
Pauline Shand moved to Atlanta Georgia in 2010 and continued passion for caring for other at a Brain Injury and Spinal cord rehabilitation facility, where their goals are helping patients back to a level of normalcy. Pauline have experienced working with the military wounded soldiers and it brought her to a greater level of respect for them and increased her desire to do more for our Veterans, who have fought to protect our country. She is sincerely committed to do her part in providing renewed hope and love to our military.
Pauline Shand is also a foster parent for the Department of Family and Children Services of Georgia
Jennifer A. Sheckleford
Board Member / VP Of Operations & Finance
Ms. Sheckleford brings 25 years of leadership and management experience in various industries including data processing, health care, and community service organizations. From 1990 until 1996 Ms. Sheckleford was the Production Manager for DataPrep International, Jamaica, W.I. and Special Projects Manager for a partnership project between DataPrep Int’l and the Vincentian government. By 1998 she became one of the four founders of Valucare, Inc. a leading home healthcare organization in Hempstead, New York. She wears many hats and is now the VP of Operations & Finance at Valucare, Inc. while assuming the role of CEO at Dynamic Corporate Solutions (DCS). She established DCS, a health care consulting firm, in 2009.
Ms. Sheckleford holds a MPA with a focus on not-for-profit organizations, a MSc in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a BSc. in print and broadcast journalism. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in business leadership at Capella University.