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.
Since 2024, Hanna4Hope is proud to be the forefront non-profit organization within the North Texas region to provide collegiate scholarships for those passionate individuals wanting to be a mental health professional, thereby ensuring there are providers, professional support and opportunities to services. While the Dallas/Fort Worth area has multiple avenues to mental health treatment, programs and outreach support, Hanna4Hope recognized that within our rural counties in and around North Texas, they have very little, if any, services and resources for those struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. Hanna4Hope has intentionally chosen colleges that are in more rural areas in and around our North Texas community to provide these regional areas with more mental health professionals and resources. Because many students attend schools within their county/region, for they want to stay close-to-home to receive their education, Hanna4Hope is excited to have chosen the following colleges for these endowed scholarships and suicide prevention program support within their schools:
Northeast Texas Community College – Endowed Scholarship
Tarleton State University – Endowed Scholarship
East Texas A&M University – Partnership in the Launch of the ZERO Suicide Program
Hanna4Hope has also 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.
Your donation will help Hanna4Hope to reach more who are struggling with their mental health and provide those students, educators and parents resources for addressing this health crisis by raising awareness and saving lives. We are a volunteer-based organization and each donation allows us to provide resources for schools and communities as well as scholarships promoting expansion of the field in mental health.
Hanna4Hope's mission believes that good mental health is a major key to the prevention of suicide. Therefore, we strive to support all those who are struggling with their mental health and those individuals who are seeking career paths which promote to the well-being of people struggling with mental health issues, thereby ensuring there are resources, services, professional support and opportunities to treatment.
On April 25, 2013, Hanna Clark, at the age of 15, took her own life leaving a devastating void in her family and community. Her parents, Tim and Raina Clark, founded Hanna4Hope in July 2013 to raise awareness of teenage suicide and help other struggling teens who are suffering from depression and suicidal behaviors. Hanna4Hope strives to reach adolescents and young adults, through our unique services by providing a pathway to an opening dialogue about mental health and suicide.
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 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.
Hanna4Hope allocates 95% of their budget to providing scholarships and resources leaving only 5% attributed to operating expenses. Therefore, almost every penny of your donation allows us to provide financial support to students majoring in the fields of mental health thus growing the community of professionals within the North Texas region.
Hanna4Hope's mission believes that good mental health is a major key to the prevention of suicide. We take a proactive approach by 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 financial support through scholarships for those who wish to enter the mental health profession - a profession that desperately needs more people as depression and mental health crisis continues to grow within our communities. Although we are a faith-based organization, we do not discriminate by gender, race, ethnicity or religion who might receive a Hanna4Hope scholarship because mental health does not discriminate.
Organization name
Hanna4Hope Foundation
Causes
Mental and Behavioral Health
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Wise, Tarrant, Somervell, Rockwall, Parker, Palo Pinto, Navarro, Montague, Kaufman, Johnson, Hunt, Hood, Grayson, Fannin, Erath, Ellis, Denton, Dallas, Cooke, Collin
Address
192 Equestrian Drive