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.

Shannon Hemstreet Supports Missoula Youth Homes

Shannon Hemstreet supports Missoula Youth Homes and knows this wonderful organization cares for children who are facing abuse, neglect, emotional trauma, and substance abuse problems. Through the Missoula Youth Homes' emergency shelters, therapeutic group homes, foster care and adoption programs, and counseling services, Shannon Hemstreet knows they provide a safe refuge for kids while they begin the difficult process of healing.

In addition, Missoula Youth Homes shows compassion and teaches youth how to build healthy relationships. More importantly, this organization helps these affected youth to trust again and gives them the opportunities to build confidence and find happiness. Since 1971, Missoula Youth Homes has cared for more than 12,000 children and teens, as well as their families in Western Montana, and have never lost sight of the importance of making a difference for one

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