Honoring babies gone too soon.
Supporting families before, during & beyond birth.
Pregnancy • Fatherhood • Family Wellness • Loss Support • Remembrance • Community Resources
LaSaaun Lives Foundation is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting families through pregnancy, parenthood, healing, loss, remembrance, and community connection.
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How Can We Support You?
Wherever you are in your family’s journey, you deserve information, community, and support.
Pregnancy & birth
Expecting a Baby?
Find pregnancy, birth, postpartum, maternal health, and family resources designed to help families feel informed and supported.
Loss & grief
Navigating a Loss?
Find compassionate pregnancy and infant loss resources, remembrance opportunities, grief support, and community spaces created with families in mind.
Fathers & partners
A Father or Partner?
Find practical resources for pregnancy, postpartum, parenting, emotional wellness, grief, and showing up for your family.
San Francisco & Bay Area
Looking for Family Resources?
Find San Francisco and Bay Area organizations providing support across pregnancy, parenting, food, housing, wellness, fatherhood, loss, and other family needs.
Not sure where to begin? That’s okay.
Take your time. Explore what’s here and begin with what feels most helpful for you and your family today.
Our beginning
The Heart Behind the Light
One little life became a light for many families.
LaSaaun Lives Foundation was created in loving memory of our son, LaSaaun Jarell Tyiska Smith, who was born sleeping on April 22, 2020.
What began as our family’s journey through stillbirth, grief, remembrance, and healing grew into a commitment to make sure other families do not have to navigate difficult seasons alone.
Our work began with loss. But listening to families taught us something bigger: support cannot begin only after something goes wrong.
Families need information during pregnancy. Mothers need support. Fathers and partners need to be included. Families need trusted resources. Communities need places to heal. And when a baby dies, that baby’s life and their family’s grief deserve to be acknowledged.
Today, LaSaaun Lives Foundation works to support families before, during, and beyond birth while continuing to honor the babies whose lives inspired this work.
What we do
Supporting the Whole Family
Our work connects family support, education, wellness, remembrance, and advocacy rather than treating them as separate experiences.
Pregnancy & Postpartum
Information, education and support for families before, during and after birth.
Fathers & Partners
Helping fathers and partners stay informed, present and supported.
Pregnancy & Infant Loss
Compassionate support, community and remembrance after a loss.
Family Wellness & Mindfulness
Mindfulness, emotional wellness and practical tools for the whole family.
Remembrance & Legacy
Spaces to say their names — Wings of Remembrance, Wave of Light and the Remembrance Wall.
Advocacy & Awareness
Bringing family and father voices into maternal health and stillbirth prevention conversations.
Family Resource Hub
Find Help. Find Community. Find Your Next Step.
San Francisco & Bay Area Family Resources
Finding help should not require families to search through dozens of disconnected systems.
The LaSaaun Lives Family Resource Hub brings trusted resources together in one place to help families find services throughout San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.
Pregnancy & BirthPostpartum SupportMaternal HealthFatherhoodPregnancy & Infant LossMental & Emotional WellnessFood & Basic NeedsHousing & Family StabilityCommunity ProgramsFamily ActivitiesBereavement & RemembranceHealthcare & Support Services
For providers: Use our resource collection to help connect families with community-based support.
Rooted in Strength™
Fathers Need Support During Pregnancy, Too.
Pregnancy changes the whole family.
Rooted in Strength™: A Father’s Guide to Pregnancy & Beyond helps fathers and partners understand how to support the mother, prepare for the baby, manage their own stress, communicate, advocate, and remain present throughout pregnancy and postpartum.
Built from lived experience and community fatherhood work, the guide helps answer a question fathers often carry quietly:
“What am I supposed to do?”
For families • fathers • hospitals • community organizations • fatherhood programs
Community
Butterfly Hyve
A Space for Mothers, Families, Healing & Transformation.
Butterfly Hyve is our space for maternal wellness, motherhood, healing, pregnancy and postpartum support, family connection, and life after loss.
“Like the butterfly, healing does not mean returning to who we were before. Sometimes healing means becoming.”
The Hyve creates room for women and families to connect, receive support, access resources, and move through life’s transitions in community.
A space to heal, connect, and become.
Father to father
RELL SPEAKS
Speak Truth • Stand Firm • Honor Legacy
Some men will walk into a support group.
Some will not.
Sometimes the doorway is a voice that sounds like something they have lived.
RELL Speaks uses spoken word, reflection, storytelling, and father-to-father truth to explore fatherhood, grief, identity, discipline, emotional wellness, healing, purpose, and legacy.
These are conversations for men becoming more intentional about the fathers, partners, leaders, and human beings they are becoming.
Remembrance
Their Names Still Matter.
Pregnancy and infant loss can leave families feeling as though the world moved forward while a piece of their world stopped.
We remember.
Wings of Remembrance creates spaces where babies gone too soon are honored openly, their names are spoken, and their families are surrounded by community.
Through memorial gatherings, remembrance activities, the Wave of Light, and our growing remembrance work, we affirm something simple:
A short life can leave an everlasting legacy.
Wings of Remembrance Wall
Say Their Name. Share Their Light.
The Wings of Remembrance Wall is a living memorial dedicated to babies gone too soon.
Every name represents a baby.
Every baby represents a family.
Every family deserves to know their child is remembered.
Community
Healing Happens in Community.
2026 community events are being updated. Check back soon for upcoming gatherings, workshops, remembrance events and family wellness opportunities.
Upcoming events
2026 community events are being updated. Check back soon for upcoming gatherings, workshops, remembrance events, family wellness activities, and advocacy opportunities.
Systems change
Families Belong at the Table.
Our work does not stop with direct services.
LaSaaun Lives Foundation brings lived experience, fatherhood perspectives, family voices, and community knowledge into broader conversations about how families are supported.
Our work and community involvement span:
Maternal & Infant HealthStillbirth Prevention & AwarenessFather InclusionPregnancy & Postpartum SupportFamily WellnessBereavement & RemembranceCommunity Resource NavigationCommunity & Healthcare Collaboration
We believe systems become stronger when the families most affected by them help shape what comes next.
PARTNER WITH US
Want to Partner With Us?
Building stronger support for families takes community.
LaSaaun Lives Foundation works with community-based organizations, healthcare systems, fatherhood programs, maternal health partners, family-serving agencies, faith communities and other organizations committed to supporting families before, during and beyond birth.
Whether you’re interested in bringing LLF programming to your community, sharing resources, collaborating on an event, supporting family outreach or exploring a broader partnership, we’d like to connect.
For CBOs • healthcare organizations • community programs • funders • collaborators
Our community impact
Built From Love. Growing Through Community.
Family Support
Pregnancy, postpartum, loss, and resource navigation.
Fatherhood
Education, community, wellness, and father-centered engagement.
Community
Workshops, cohorts, gatherings, outreach, and family events.
Remembrance
Creating space for babies’ names and families’ stories to remain visible.
Advocacy
Bringing lived experience into community, healthcare, maternal health, and stillbirth-prevention conversations.
Resources
Creating practical guides and tools families and organizations can use beyond a single event or program.
You Don't Have to Navigate This Alone.
Whether you’re preparing for a baby, adjusting to parenthood, supporting your partner, grieving a loss, or simply looking for a community that understands, you don’t have to figure everything out at once.
Take the next step that feels right for you.
SUPPORT THE WORK
Help Us Continue Showing Up for Families.
Your gift helps us reach another family with support, presence, and resources when it matters most.
Supporting families before, during & beyond birth.
Serving San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.
Registered 501(c)(3) • EIN: 86-2029576 • Copyright © 2026 LaSaaun Lives Foundation. All Rights Reserved.