No child left behind

He was hurt badly in a bull riding accident at a high school rodeo in Willits, and he later died of his injuries.

While he was at UCSF, our founder walked into his hospital room one afternoon and found the bed made and the room empty. It was terrifying for a moment. Then a doctor explained where he had gone: he was down the hall on the children's floor, reading books to the kids.

One of them was a little girl born without a stomach, who would never leave the hospital, and whose parents had visited twice. Shannon could not understand it. How could somebody leave a child behind?

That question became this organization. Showing Up For Shannon exists for the kids, because carrying on what he did is how his brother learned to carry the loss.

Every kid who plays here is playing because somebody showed up. That is the whole idea.