From one mother's loss to a teaching tool.
When Susan Aguayo lost her daughter Kassy in March 2015, she made a choice few grieving mothers make: to tell the story publicly, in her daughter's name, so that other families and the providers who care for them might recognize the warning signs sooner.
Kassy was four months pregnant. She was 21. The systems meant to catch her did not. In the years that followed, Susan founded Kassy's Kause, became Postpartum Support International's New Mexico Coordinator, and worked with collaborators at UNM Hospital and Lovelace Health System to bring the story to the people who would one day sit across from another mother in crisis.
The film, released in 2017 in English and Spanish, is the centerpiece of that work. It is shown not as a fundraising piece but as a clinical and community teaching tool — a story to be screened, discussed, and carried into practice.
