About Hanna4Hope

After spending more than a decade raising awareness of teen suicide and depression within schools and our workshops, Hanna4Hope is now taking a more proactive approach to providing educational scholarship opportunities to those individuals who have a passion for assisting humanity with their mental health challenges. This approach is to help at the source by providing a profession that desperately needs more people as depression and mental health crisis continues to grow within our communities. Individuals seeking careers in psychology, psychiatry, and especially social work is very low. As a society, we need these individuals as much as we need first responders and medical professionals. This profession is already stretched thin with more and more individuals needing assistance and there are very little of individuals who choose this career path. Schools and their counselors are overwhelmed with teens in mental health crisis daily, and it is our hope that we can encourage and support those individuals choosing this profession who are passionate to help others with their mental health.

Hanna4Hope is a 501c3 non-profit organization and has established scholarships to college students majoring in mental health fields of study throughout the State of Texas. Through our past work specializing in workshops and school assemblies, Hanna4Hope has worked to ensure others do not have to experience the pain and heartbreak Tim and Raina suffered through their devastating loss of their daughter Hanna.

Hanna4Hope began their mission leading teen workshops that help teens recognize the signs of depression and suicide and teaching them how to be leaders in their schools through the development of Hanna4Hope clubs. We expanded our services to interactive school assemblies in both middle school and high schools across the Dallas Metroplex and across the State of Texas. We now provide online educational resources, scholarship opportunities and support for teens, parents, educators and schools.

Hanna4Hope has provided support to the following school districts: Rockwall, Brock, Millsap, Lipan, Pewitt, Wills Point, Chapel Hill, Mt. Vernon, Winona, Daingerfield, Frisco, Santo, Fairview, Ursuline Academy, Sulphur Springs, Midway, Frenship ISD in Lubbock, International Leadership (“IL”) of Texas Katy, IL of Texas Houston and IL of Texas College Station, Collin College, Northeast Texas Community College and many other schools across the State of Texas. Hanna4Hope has presented to the Texas Counseling Association in San Antonio.

Hanna4Hope currently strives to make an impact on the surrounding communities and over the past eleven years has supported suicide prevention programs in the area as well as provided scholarships to graduating seniors planning for careers in mental health care. The COVID pandemic has taken a toll on Hanna4Hope financially as we have not been able to do standard fundraisers for the foundation. We have restructured to provide scholarships to college students majority in the mental health fields of study.

Tim Clark is the dad of Hanna Kay Clark.  April 25, 2013, is the day that changed he and his wife's lives forever. Their beautiful daughter made a decision to end her life. Suicide was something that never entered their mind, much less it was never a topic that was brought into their home. Unfortunately, now over 11 years later, it is and was all consuming.  In their grief, they needed to understand the why, how, and when of this nightmare. Thus, the Hanna4Hope Foundation was conceived.

After diving into books and researching information on suicide amongst our youth today, they felt it was their "thorn in the flesh" that they needed to inform parents and teenagers on the dark, evil facts of why such young and full-of-life promising youth make that permanent decision.
Hanna4Hope, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation that was created out of their unspeakable grief, but also to keep their beautiful Hanna Kay lifted up and to always be remembered. Their goal is to bring awareness about teenage suicide through all avenues that will allow them to do so.

Tim was born and raised in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Tim and Raina have been married since 1997. They have two other children, Cassidy and Christopher and three grandchildren, Cadence, Jaxon and Grayson. The entire family helps, participates, and supports the Hanna4Hope Foundation and cause in various capacities, including the Foundation's fundamentals and participating in Hanna4Hope events. Their love and passion for what Hanna Kay meant to them and what their parents have conceived with the Foundation is unwavering. Tim and Raina currently live in Comanche, Texas where they are co-working MRI Technologists and employed at Comanche County Medical Center.  

Tim and Raina's hope and prayer is that people will see their story and learn about their beautiful daughter who was full of life, laughter, and love -- who made a bad decision. Read, watch their story, as they continually pray that you will always be vigilant about questions that are hard to ask. It could save the life of that beautiful someone you care about.

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 youth between the ages of 10 and 24 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 and young adult 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 suicide in today’s youth throughout the Nation.”

Raina was born in Wichita, KS and raised in Weatherford, TX.  She has been married since 1997 to Tim Clark. They have two other children, Cassidy and Christopher and three grandchildren, Cadence, Jaxon and Grayson. and currently resides in Comanche, TX.  Tim and Raina live in Comanche, Texas where they are Co-working MRI Technologists and employed at Comanche County Medical Center.

Words of encouragement that Raina lives by and strongly believes in is:  "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.  Once you choose HOPE, anything is possible."

James Shrode is the Owner and General Manager of NorTex Granite Masters in Rockwall County in Texas. He is very active serving on the Board of Directors of the Hanna4Hope Foundation and has served as Treasurer since inception for the Foundation's Executive Board.  James is also very active in his church and volunteers many hours there as a greeter.

Being a life-long friend of Tim Clark.  James brings his knowledge of the Clark family's strong faith that led to the building blocks of the Hanna4Hope Foundation.  James is exceptional at suggestions leading to the success of the Foundation utilizing his business acumen to help steer the Foundation into the success it is today.    

James grew up in Sulphur Springs, TX and enjoys time with his adult children, grandchildren, traveling and watching the Texas Rangers play ball. He loves golfing and fishing with his sons and grandsons, watching grandsons play baseball and football, his granddaughter's dance recitals and doing road trips around Texas with his wife, Robin. He lives in Rockwall, TX.

Since the Hanna4Hope Foundation began in 2013, Lisa has been an integral part of the organization and the shaping of what it has become today.  Along with the other board members and volunteers, Lisa shares a passion for bringing depression and suicide out in the open in frank and honest conversations with today’s youth.  Lisa has served and immersed herself in multiple roles within the Foundation from Director of Communications and Forms to the Liaison and Technical Coordinator for schools when holding school assemblies to teens about the effects of teen suicide.  Lisa is particularly excited about working with colleges to facilitate opportunities for the next generation of mental health professionals thereby ensuring that future generations have access to help that is transformational and long-lasting especially in the smaller communities throughout our Nation.

Through her work at the Hanna4Hope Foundation, Lisa has seen first-hand that empowering young adults can bring transformational improvements in mental health in families, communities, schools and society as a whole.  Utilizing her vast knowledge of all things administrative and decades of working for top law firms and corporations throughout her professional career, Lisa’s work has led her to focus on the Foundation’s organizational needs and commitments. 

Lisa grew up in Sherman, Texas as a proud Air Force brat.  She currently resides in Rockwall, Texas with her husband Kirk and has 2 children.  Lisa’s daughter Michaela was one of Hanna’s best friends and along with Lisa’s son Cooper, being a part of the Hanna4Hope cause has been a family commitment and each have volunteered and participated whenever needed. 

Currently Lisa is employed as a C-Level Executive Assistant to the Chief Innovation Officer of Hunt Energy and works in Dallas, Texas. 

Robin Shrode has served over 40 years in education in multiple rolls and leadership. Robin graduated from East Texas State University (Texas A&M University Commerce) in 1983 with a BS in Elementary Education with a specialization in Reading. For 10 years, Robin taught Reading, Reading Recovery and English in 6th through 12th grades also being certified to teach at the secondary level. She graduated from Texas A&M University Commerce in 1995 with a Master of Science in Educational Counseling and Psychology and was a middle school and high school counselor for 8 years before entering into administrative rolls.

In 2018, Robin became the Executive Director of the John and Deborah Gillis Foundation. Robin created the Gillis Foundation for philanthropic and lifelong friends John and Deborah Gillis. Robin currently serves full-time in this position.

Robin serves voluntarily on the executive boards of two national organizations. Along with serving on the Hanna4Hope Foundation’s Executive Board of Directors, which educates and provides resources on the awareness of youth suicide as well as preventive measures to address suicide in communities, Robin also serves on the Executive Board of Directors for the National Career Academy Coalition, an education non-profit based on Nashville, TN where she is currently serving as Chairman of the Board.

Robin lives in Rockwall, Texas with her husband James and enjoys much time with her four wonderful (step) children and in-laws and 11 beautiful grandchildren.