Shannon Hemstreet: Dedicated to Her Local Community

Shannon Hemstreet is a successful hotelier and is the owner and Chief Operating Officer for the Shilo Management Corporation. In her free time, Shannon Hemstreet enjoys the opportunity to be involved in her local community because she finds this type of volunteer work to be a unique and rewarding experience.

Shannon Hemstreet: A Healthy Work/Life Balance

When not working as the Chief Operating Officer of the Shilo Inns Suites, the area’s largest, independently-owned hotel and resort chain, Shannon Hemstreet can often be found engaged with the local community, particularly through her support of such organizations as the Honor Flight Network. Shannon Hemstreet is also a dedicated mother to eight children.

Shannon Hemstreet: Get Away from It All

As the Owner of RiverView Ranch Retreat and Western Adventures, Shannon Hemstreet offers guests the opportunity to truly get away from it all – to escape to the beauty and seclusion of one of the premier ranch properties in the Western United States. Boasting a luxurious lodge, lake house, numerous amenities and all-inclusive activities, the RiverView Ranch provides the best ranch vacation experience available.

Shannon Hemstreet: Taking a Look at Missoula Youth Homes

Shilo Inns COO Shannon Hemstreet is proud to support causes that make a positive difference in people’s lives – particularly those that offer a helping hand and source of hope to those in the most need. One organization Hemstreet contributes to is Missoula Youth Homes, a Western Montana nonprofit that offers a resource of care, counseling and refuge to at-risk children and families throughout the area.

As Shannon Hemstreet knows, Missoula Youth Homes has been providing care to children and families for more than 40 years. Since 1971, Missoula Youth Homes has offered anything from therapeutic group homes and emergency shelters to adoption and foster care programs, counseling services and more to children facing abuse, neglect and/or emotional trauma. To date, Missoula Youth Homes has provided support to over 12,000 children and their families across the region. They continue to be a resource of compassion, trust and safety to in-need children in communities throughout Western Montana.  

Shannon Hemstreet: Honoring Veterans through the Honor Flight Network

Shannon Hemstreet is a successful business professional and hotelier – a 20-year professional in the hospitality industry and current COO and owner of Shilo Inns Suites Hotels. A dedicated and driven executive committed to providing great guest services, Hemstreet continues to be an invaluable asset to the Shilo team, and to the hospitality industry.

When not immersed in the responsibilities of leading the area’s largest, independently-owned hotel/resort chains, Shannon Hemstreet can often be found engaged with the local community – particularly through her support of such organizations as the Honor Flight Network. A nonprofit established solely to honor America’s war veterans and the sacrifices, the Honor Flight Network offers veterans – particularly those of WWII – no-cost transport to Washington D.C.  to both visit and reflect on the memorials dedicated in their honor.

Hemstreet is proud not only to support such a worthwhile organization, but also to contribute to a cause so dedicated to the help, support and honor of our country’s veterans. 

Shannon Hemstreet: Shilo CEO/Owner

Shannon Hemstreet serves as the owner and COO of Shino Inns Suites Hotels – a role she has enjoyed since 1994. Shilo Inns is known by many to be the largest private and independently-owned hospitality firm in the Western U.S. – an organization that now boasts more than 30 convenient locations across seven states and Texas. Hemstreet has proven an adept leader and hotelier throughout her career.

Shannon Hemstreet: History of the Missoula Youth Homes

Shannon Hemstreet and her husband Mark are proud to support the mission of Missoula Youth Homes. In 1971, the Montana Board of Crime Control offered the 4th Judicial District Court a grant to establish one of the first community-based group homes in Montana. Empowered by the chief probation officer at the time, a group of local community members worked to incorporate the home, and in February 1972, the group opened the District Youth Guidance Home.

Over the late 1970s and 1980s, the organization opened three more homes to meet the needs of the community. An “attention home” served the crisis needs of adolescent offenders and runaways, while the other homes provided intensive services for youth. The homes shifted from live-in house parents to rotating staff 24-hour supervision, and changed the organization's legal name to Missoula Youth Homes. A foster care program to provide youngsters with family placements when appropriate was also added.

During the 1990s, the foster care program grew to twenty placements, with more than half of those vulnerable children under the age of 11. This demonstrated that there was a need for a group home geared toward younger children who required more care than a foster family could provide, so the Sherry Mahon Francetich Children’s Home was established in 1994. In 1995, we established an emergency shelter in Kalispell, which was the first home established outside Missoula County. We also added a boys’ treatment home and a second Francetich children’s treatment home.

In 2002, the Bitterroot Attention Home (now the Linda Massa Youth Home) opened in Hamilton, and in 2005, the InnerRoads Wilderness Treatment Program was acquired by the organization. In 2012, Missoula Youth Homes merged with Friends to Youth to offer family-based counseling as part of the Dan Fox Family Care Program.