Who We Are
The Veterans and Police Assistance Agency (VPAA) exists to serve our veterans and law enforcement communities with the many aspects of daily living. The VPAA offers assistance, advocacy, and guidance to civilian resources for our veterans and police officers to ensure access to actionable information related to their service. There are many situations wherein veterans and police suffer injuries, damages, and losses and face life challenges that can only be addressed through non-governmental avenues such as law firms, non-profit organizations and veteran and LEO-friendly corporate donors. We look forward to continued and broadening coordination with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the individual state’s Veterans Affairs departments, our nation’s Veterans Services Officers and police benevolent associations to help our veterans and police officers.
Our Story
Simply put: the VPAA is founded by veterans and LEOs, for our veterans, police officers and their families. We’d like to give a huge shout out to the many volunteers that have come forward to spread the VPAA news and to help out their fellow veterans and police officers by offering their services and assistance. Thank you!
Meet the Team
Lina M. Maini, Co-founder, CEO and President
Lina began her career in service by entering the United States Air Force in her teens, enabling Lina to both serve her country and further her education in fields that would establish her base of knowledge for her later dual careers in marketing and information services for the legal, law enforcement and corporate communities.
Feeling again the call to service, in 2019, after a comprehensive period of preparation, Lina founded the Veterans and Police Assistance Agency (VPAA) – seeking to advocate on behalf of service-members and law enforcement officers whose needs and concerns extend beyond those services offered by established military and veterans agencies and police benevolent associations and unions. Through her varied experience and numerous sources and contacts, Lina brings a wealth of expertise, bureaucratic navigation knowledge and crisis resolution experience to veterans and civilian police matters.
Lina is also heavily involved in foster and adoption matters, hoping to help create long-term solutions within the state care systems. At any given time there are nearly half-million children in the foster system in the United States, often experiencing multiple foster home placements. A common myth is that military families are not able to foster or adopt children. Although sometimes military families relocate, there are many opportunities for fostering in the military. Like civilian parents, military parents are able to adopt as well. An adoption is an option even if the family is stationed overseas.
William C. Janczewski, Co-founder and COO/CTO
William has been at the forefront of connecting people through digital platforms for over 20 years. He has led several successful companies with wildly divergent talent, overseeing technical, operational, and creative endeavors.
In his vast experience with marketing for nonprofit organizations, most notably with the powerhouse DC-based marketing agency, Beaconfire, William has crafted online campaigns, websites and collateral marketing efforts for such clients as the American Physical Society, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Bread for the World, Center for Applied Linguistics, Conservation International, Consumers Union, Family Health International and Paralyzed Veterans of America.
George “Bo” A. Morring, General Manager
Bo, a decorated United States Army veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, brings a wealth of decision-making skills to the VPAA; fast-acting solutions to a myriad of issues that our clients in distress have to deal with that require immediate resolution.
These problem solving skills were honed in combat as Bo brings his battlefield experience to the written page with his book “PTSD, A Demon Within”, a nonfiction account of his real-time combat experiences, and the ramificiations of repeated exposure to physical, mental and emotional assaults on the human mind and body. Bo, a native Tennessean, with his loving and supportive wife, Kelly, are raising their adventurous and charming son, George A. Morring, IV, affectionately known as G-4 and Bug!
Lee Ann Smith, Ambassador-at-Large
Lee Ann has been involved with military on-base operations in a civilian capacity during her entire career.
After the tragic loss of her son, Army Sgt. Adrew R. Tobin, 24, in 2011, in Afghanistan, Lee Ann turned attention to serving the many valiant men and women of our armed services, both those on active duty and those with veteran status. Founding MOS (Member of Service) MOMs in 2012, Lee Ann has involved herself extensively in championing the personal and familial causes of our nation’s military members. From coordinating fundraisers for other Gold Star parents and angel families in their times of need to being a force in our nation’s Capitol at veteran-related events, Lee Ann continues to advocate for every veteran that she can. In 2018, Lee Ann joined the VPAA to lend her outspoken advocacy to the VPAA’s mission of guiding veterans to civilian resource avenues available to them for matters outside of the jurisdiction of the Department of Veteran Affairs and other veteran and military related governmental agencies.
If we can be assistance, please contact the VPAA at 347.443.1737 or email us: situationroom@myvpaa.org