Another Safe Haven Baby Box has become available. 

This one was installed at the Brazil Fire Department. The box was unlocked in a cermony this week.

The history of the boxes is outlined on its website. Founder, Monica Kelsey, started Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Inc. after learning she was abandoned as an infant and after seeing a "Baby Box" in operation at a church, in Cape Town, South Africa. She has made it her personal mission to educate others on the Safe Haven Law and to do whatever it takes to save the lives of innocent babies from being abandoned. 

?The Safe Haven Baby Box website says that it takes the face-to-face interaction out of the surrender and protects the mother from being seen.  The Safe Haven Baby Boxes organization's primary goal is to raise awareness of the Safe Haven Law. Women in crisis can call the national 24-hour hotline and can receive counseling and assistance free of charge. To date, the hotline has received over 8,000 calls from every state in the United States.

You can reach that hotline by calling or texting 1-866-99BABY1.

Safe Haven Baby Boxes has referred over 500 women to crisis pregnancy centers, assisted in 9 adoption referrals, and have had over 120 legal Safe Haven surrenders. 36 babies have been surrendered in our Baby Boxes.  Three babies were surrendered directly to firefighters at Safe Haven Baby Box locations.