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Tina Smith
Tina Smith is treasurer of Make A Difference For Kids, Inc., and also works on fund raising for the organization. She lost her daughter Karissa Marie Smith to suicide on October 7, 2007. Tina has been active with youth in Bullitt County for some time. For two years, she ran a prenatal program for pregnant teens in Bullitt County through the Early Childhood Head Start Program. She is now a certified trainer for QPR Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention, and a member of the Bullitt County Suicide Coalition. Tina is a proud parent of Trenten and Trever Smith, her sons who attend school in Bullitt County, and the foster mother of Airika Brown. She also has two grand babies Kristianne and Emily.
Tina feels like she could not sit by and not be involved in the Make A Difference For Kids foundation.
"I have to keep my daughters memory alive in a positive way and believe that education is the key to helping prevent this tragedy again to another family. My life as I knew it will never be the same....I lost my baby...my world...my love. I miss my daughter so much the pain is sometimes unbearable but believe that I must go on and live for my children and make this world a better place. "
Grief is like A River
My Grief is like a river, I have to let it flow,
but I myself determine just where the banks will go.
Some days the current takes me in waves of guilt and pain,
but there are always quiet pools where I can rest again.
I crash on rocks of anger; my faith seems faint indeed,
but there are other swimmers who know that what I need
Are loving hands to hold me when the waters are too swift,
and someone kind to listen when I just seem to drift.
Grief's river is a process of relinquishing the past.
By swimming in hope's channels, I'll reach the shore at last.
--Author unknown
