1. Raina Clark
Founder and Vice President of Hanna4Hope, Inc.
Raina Clark is the proud Mother to Hanna Clark. However, on April 25, 2013 her world was changed forever by the tragic and
impulsive decision made by her 15 year old daughter Hanna to end her own life. The topic of suicide was brought to the
forefront of Raina and husband Tim Clark’s world on that day. While trying to understand the reason why Hanna would do
such a thing and reaching out to various resources for parents of teen suicides, they have learned that this action is the
leading cause of death in girls between the ages of 15 and 22 in the State of Texas with very little, if at all, services available
or provided to the teens contemplating suicide themselves.
Hanna's death and the realization of the lack of knowledge, information into the reasons why a teen would commit suicide and
resources available to them have provided Raina and Tim with a mission of bringing this tragedy out into the open. Unwillingly
now having a personal relationship with the effects of suicide, Raina and Tim knew that they needed to raise awareness of
teen suicide's devastating infliction upon families and friends of the victims and to continue to financially support research in
teen suicide prevention and awareness to hopefully prevent this tragedy from happening to another family.
Together Raina and Tim founded Hanna4Hope, Inc., a non-profit organization to bring awareness of the issues around
teenage suicide. As Raina states “If this can happen to my family, it can happen to anyone’s family. Before April 25th
of 2013,
I was just a typical wife, mother and career woman. Now I am an advocate for raising awareness of teen suicide throughout
the Nation.”
The Hanna4Hope Foundation is unique in the fact that it collaborates with the teens themselves to raise awareness. With the
Hanna4Hope Teen Committee and Hanna4Hope School Club programs, the mission is to utilize the teens themselves to
combat not only suicide awareness, but depression, bullying, dating violence and many other topics of concern facing our
teens today. The Hanna4Hope “Tool Kits” are kits full of resources and topics of concern for our Teen Members to discuss as
well as work directly with school districts’ counseling services and programs.
Raina was born in Wichita, KS and then raised in Weatherford, TX. She has been married for 18 years to Tim Clark and
currently resides in Rockwall, TX. Raina works as a CT Technologist at Baylor Medical Center in Garland, Texas and the
remainder of her time is devoted to speaking engagements and continuing to grow the Hanna4Hope Foundation.
Please contact Lisa Windahl, Director of Communications and Volunteer Services at volunteer@hanna4hope.com should you
have any questions want more information, interested in partnering with our Foundation or want to schedule Raina to speak at
your function.