Safe Baby Box Indiana

If you need help finding a safe haven location or to speak to a licensed counselor call our national safe haven hotline at 1 866 99baby1.

Safe baby box indiana.

The infant was surrendered into the box on september 6 just 30 days later. See current locations below to find the closest baby box or baby drawer location near you. Safe haven baby boxes woodburn indiana. Passed in 2000.

A healthy newborn baby has been left in a safe haven baby box in indiana it s reported. Saving babies one box at a time. 14 558 likes 3 126 talking about this 15 were here. The infant was immediately taken to a local hospital after being found at the surrender site at the crown.

Woodburn city fire department 22731 main st woodburn in 46797. The safe haven baby box in hammond went live on august 7 2019. Indiana enacted the safe haven law that allows a mother to give up her unwanted baby under the age of 30 days. Indiana has installed two baby boxes where mothers can anonymously drop off unwanted newborns as an extension of the state s safe haven law.

According to information from safe haven baby boxes the company has helped 68 women and infants with safe surrenders assisted with 6 adoption plans and have referred hundreds to pregnancy crisis centers around the country. Officials hope to install new baby boxes in kokomo and batesville this month. This is the fifth baby surrendered in a baby box in the past two years in indiana and the third to be surrendered in the past 134 days. The infant was the 59th baby surrendered in the state of indiana under the safe haven law.

The box will be made available at the department located at 300 west tate st. A baby box is installed in an exterior wall of a designated fire station or hospital. Baby girl recovered from new haven baby box is healthy. Read indiana s safe haven baby boxes are saving and changing lives.