Clark Richardson
Missions Director
All Campuses
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Foster Care 101
This class is designed to provide information about Foster Care within our 4-county area and create connections between Austin Ridge families: currently fostering, pursuing foster care or looking to serve as a supporting role.
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Foster Care 102
This 4-week class is designed to help you get ready for what to expect when fostering, identify what you need to learn, and teach you how to prepare a supportive community for your family. We will work through the Make Ready Workbook in this class.
What is the Make Ready Workbook?
The Make Ready e-book is divided into four classes: one introductory meeting, and three classes that address significant factors to a person’s success as a foster or adoptive parent.
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Download our "Get Ahead" checklist.
Learn more about the foster care orientation process.
Download a list of questions to prepare.
Click here for additional information from Fostering Hope.
Missions Director
All Campuses
Missions Director
All Campuses
Clark is a Waco native and a Dallas Baptist University graduate. His non-traditional college and career track within the landscape industry and fundraising/development unknowingly prepared him for such a time as this. Over a number of trips to Uganda, God opened his eyes to how he could use his gifts and talents both locally and globally for the Kingdom. That led him to put his “yes” on the table in 2016, and the rest is history. He married up when landing his beautiful wife, Natalie, in 2010, and they have three children, Graham, Isla, and Cora. He is a jack of all trades and master of none. He enjoys being a dad of three, and when there is time, hunting, sports, dabbling with smoking meat, and campfires.