Kara Richardson

Kara graduated from Portland State University in 2002.  Since that time she has been working with children in a variety of settings. In Oregon, Kara worked with at risk youth, in group homes and in a county diversion center. Since then Kara moved to Montana in 2003 to become a correctional counselor at Riverside Youth Correctional Facility working with adolescent girls 12 - 18 years of age. Then in April of 2004 Kara joined the Child and Family Services Division of the Department of Public Health and Human Services as a Child Protection Specialist. She has been on the Montana State Alliance for DEC since its birth in November 2004 and has been an Executive Board Member since June of 2006.

The Montana Alliance for Drug Endangered Children was founded on November 17, 2004. It is a collaboration of agencies throughout the state. Our goal and mission is to work together in intervening on behalf of drug endangered children by rescuing, defending, sheltering and supporting them, with an emphasis on children exposed to methamphetamine use, production and trafficking.