Parks Youth Ranch - provide emergency shelter, counseling services to abused and neglected youth

Shannan Stavinoha joined Parks Youth Ranch the Executive Director in July 2018. Parks Youth Ranch is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to provide emergency shelter, counseling and life changing services to abused and neglected youth.

A longtime resident of Fort Bend County, Shannan began her professional career in financial services before moving to non-profit support where she has grown her career in non-profit administration through experience with Child Advocates of Fort Bend, the Central Fort Bend Chamber and as Community Relations Director for the Richmond State Supported Living Center. 

In addition to her professional life, Shannan has served on the board of the Pecan Grove Gators Football and Cheer Teams, as a volleyball coach for the YMCA, as chairman of the Class of 2017 Project Graduation and as the Lamar Consolidated High School Band Booster President.  She currently serves on the Fort Bend PIO Steering Committee, the Richmond Pecan Harvest Festival Committee and spends countless hours volunteering for organizations within the schools her children attend. 

Shannan is a Lamar Consolidated High School Alumni and holds a BBA in Management from the University of Houston-Downtown. She currently calls Pecan Grove home with her husband, Stephen and their three children Teddy, Jimmy and Evelyn.

Shannan is a 2007 graduate of Leadership Fort Bend through the Central Fort Bend Chamber, a 2017 graduate of the Fort Bend Leadership Forum through the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce and a 2018 graduate of the Excellence for Nonprofit Leadership through Fort Bend Forward and the George Foundation.