{"id":317,"date":"2016-10-11T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/?p=317"},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:37:35","slug":"2016-nominee-stefanie-maucher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/2016\/10\/11\/2016-nominee-stefanie-maucher\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Nominee: Stefanie Maucher"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stefanie <\/span>Maucher<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>is married to Roger and has two daughters, <\/span>Carli<\/span> and Erika, who both have Down syndrome. She works for Sunny Hill, Inc., which empowers individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve their dream.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stefanie’s youngest daughter, <\/span>Carli, i<\/span>s the 2015 Missouri Pre Teen Butterfly Dreams Queen. She is always encouraging her daughters to be themselves and prove that they cannot be limited. Stefanie is involved with many programs and organizations that support Down syndrome, including Butterfly Dreams and the <\/span>Pujols<\/span> Family Foundation. Stefanie and her husband Roger opened their hearts and homes and adopted <\/span>Carli<\/span> from the <\/span>Pujols<\/span> foundation when she was just two days old. <\/span><\/p>\n

Stefanie never tires of advocating for inclusion and acceptance of her two daughters in school and in their community and spends countless hours helping them achieve their hopes and dreams. <\/span><\/p>\n

On top of doing this for her own two children, she also works for a company that provides care and support for those with special needs. She lives and breathes this life of helping others without complaint or regret. Thinking only of others and never of herself, she is a pillar of strength and advocacy in the Down syndrome community.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  Stefanie Maucher is married to Roger and has two daughters, Carli and Erika, who both have Down syndrome. She works for Sunny Hill, Inc., which empowers individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve their dream. Stefanie’s youngest daughter, Carli, is the 2015 Missouri Pre Teen Butterfly Dreams Queen. She is always encouraging her daughters to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}