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Kennan and Stacy
Pennsylvania

Basic Info

Kennan

Age: 48
Sex:
Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic
Religion: Christian

Stacy

Age: 50
Sex:
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
Religion: Christian

Child Preferences

Age: Infant to 10 years old
Sex: Either
Max Number of Children: 2
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian, African American, Asian, Native American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, Mixed, Bi-Racial, Unknown

Special Needs the Family is Open To: Mild Physical/Medical Disability, Asthma, Drug Allergies, Environmental Allergies, Food Allergies, Defiant, Difficulty Making Friends, Lying, Poor Social Skills, Tantrums-Severe, Wets the Bed, Low Birth Weight or Premature, Prenatal Drug Exposure, Physically Disabled-Mild, Vision Impaired, Anorexia/Bulimia, Pica, Academically behind due to poor attendance, Severe Learning Disabilities, Speech or Language Impairment, Exposed to Domestic Violence, Child has had a disrupted adoption, Multiple Placements, ADHD, Diabetes, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Willing to Maintain Contact via Mail with Bio Family, Willing to Maintain Contact with Past Foster Parents, Willing to Maintain Contact with Bio Grandparents & Other Relatives, Willing to Maintain Contact with Bio Siblings

Environment

State: Pennsylvania
Neighborhood: Suburban
Residency: Single Family Home
Years Together: 11
Children in the Home: 1
Pet(s): Cat(s)

Work

Kennan

Occupation: Pilot

Stacy

Occupation: Online Teacher/Editor

Adoption Agency

Agency: Adoption Connection PA
Worker: Erica List
Worker: elist@adoptionconnectionpa.org
City: Beaver
State: Pennsylvania
Zip: 15009

Family Description

As a biracial family, we embody love, laughter, and patience. We are active, adventurous, cultured, and religious. We are a Christian couple, extremely solid in our values and financial status after 14 years of marriage and travel to over 50 countries. We understand children with diverse needs and are realistic, patient, and proactive. We greatly value multiculturalism and love to prepare foods from around the world, attend ethnic shows, and listen to global music. In fact, Kennan's first language is Spanish; he takes pride as a Dominican-American with Latin and African heritage. Stacy's 14 years as a former middle and high school English and Drama educator also trained her to deal with kids' and teens' emotional, social, creative, and cognitive needs. Stacy learned Japanese when she taught overseas for 5 years in Asia and has family members from Jewish, American Indian, and Filipino heritage. Our proudest moment was adopting our daughter in 2014. Now a toddler, she is ready to have a sibling! We also own two cats and can offer safety, fun, culture, education, and stability, as we live in a Blue Ribbon school district, within walking distance to parks, libraries, and an array of cultural venues. We love to watch sports, movies, cook, visit amusement parks, plan family outings and birthday celebrations, and experience life to the maximum! We are seeking a sibling pair of 2 or single child to complete our family. Please inquire about us and the World of Love that we can give!

Preference Description

We seek 1 child or a sib group without history of aggression toward younger kids and who welcome the chance to have a sister. We have an adorable toddler daughter! We prefer friendly kids who are not cat allergic. We're open to kids in all states!

Join the Pichirilo Family: An Amazing Race of Love and Laughter!

As a biracial family, we embody love, laughter, and patience. We are active, adventurous, cultured, and religious. We are an active, fun couple, extremely solid in our values after 14 years of marriage and travel to over 50 countries. We want our toddler daughter to have a sibling. We've gone through the adoption process with her, and we are eager to extend our forever family!

We understand children with diverse and special needs; we are highly realistic, patient, and proactive. We are seeking a sibling group of 2, ages 0-10, or a single child. We are open to all races and cultures!

We greatly value multiculturalism and love to prepare foods from around the world, attend ethnic shows, dance, visit art museums and galleries, watch sports, hike, and hang out at parks. Kennan's first language is Spanish; he takes pride as a Dominican-American. Stacy's work in Asia for 5 years also honed her diverse style!

Now working from home to prepare for adoption, Stacy formerly worked for 14 years as a former middle and high school English and Drama educator in urban, high poverty schools. This experience also trained her to deal with kids' and teens' emotional, social, creative, and cognitive needs. Stacy learned Japanese when she taught overseas for and has family members from American Indian and Southeast Asian heritages.

Stacy and Kennan proudly own two spoiled cats and can offer safety, fun, culture, education, fun, and stability to a dynamic sibling duo. We live in a Blue Ribbon school district, safe, family-oriented suburb, within walking distance to walking trails, playgrounds, parks, libraries, and an array of cultural venues. We love to watch TV, read, make arts and crafts, go to the movies, cook, visit amusement parks, plan family outings and birthday celebrations, play video and board games, try our luck at mini golf, and experience life to the maximum! We are also animal and nature lovers!

Again, we are seeking a sibling pair of 2 or a single child to complete our family and join us on our Amazing Race of fun and family! Please inquire about us and the world of love that we can provide for this pair!

ACE Family: Active, Creative, and Engaging!

We love both indoor and outdoor activities. We enjoy bowling, board games, video games, parks, picnics, hikes, etc. Kennan is a computer wiz and loves to fix things! Stacy is an avid reader, poet, dancer, and yoga fan. We also like to be creative, whether it involves making a scrapbook, trying a new recipe, planning a Halloween masquerade party, etc. We also indulge in fun activities like going to be beach, amusement parks, road trips to the mountains, shopping. Our everyday activities are highly structured, planned, and involved mutual decision-making and compromises. We eat our meals as a family, attend church on Sundays, and never miss a single football, hockey, or baseball game to support our hometown teams!

City of Bridges: Culture, Nature, and Sports

We live in a city that values hard work, sports, and culture, We are close to 3 renowned theaters, history and art museums, sports venues, a national aviary, zoo, mountains, and so on. Our neighborhood is quiet, green, safe, and kid friendly with walking trails, a recreation center, ice staking rink, playgrounds, and Blue Ribbon acclaimed schools!

Teacher, Mentor, Coach, Aunt/Uncle, Tio/Tia

Besides training in TBRI, grief, oppositional behavior, sensory strategies, and other parenting techniques, we also have extensive experiences as mentors for urban/at risk youth, tutoring ESL/ELL, and serving as an aunt/uncle/tio/tia to ten niece and nephews! Stacy was a secondary English/Drama teacher for 14 years, where she worked with at risk teens and youth as well as an array of special education issues. Stacy also coached dance and drama for 14 years. Kennan, too, is a flight instructor and also tutored Spanish. As a former military leader, Kennan dealt with troops who suffered from PTSD. Both of us have undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Guides on the Side

Family, faith, community resources, therapeutic services, and adoption support groups will ensure that our kids receive top-notch resources, tools, and support. We have any agencies that offer speech therapy, occupational therapy, loss and bereavement counseling anger management, yoga, music therapy, and other programs for teens who've experience trauma, loss, and struggles. Connections with the arts will also be helpful.

SEA: Steadfast, Educated, Accomodating

Despite the challenges, we are educated, flexible, patient, collaborative, realistic, and 100% committed to finding our forever family! Since we both overcame obstacles in our lives, we use that resilience as parents. We will also utilize all resources in our family, community, state, and even nationally! We will attend support groups, engage in webinars, conferences, and trainings to provide our children with the safest, most accommodating, nurturing, and amazing new lives!