Courageous Teen Mom Changes Her Mind After Considering Safe Haven: “I can do this, I can raise a baby.”

By Katie Franklin It was 8 p.m. when a hotline call lit up the phone of Heather Burner, executive director of the National Safe Haven Alliance, in late August. “Madison,” the scared, young girl on the other end of the phone, was nine months pregnant, expecting to deliver her baby within just a couple weeks, …

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One-hour-old “Baby Hope” left in Safe Haven Box, doing well

For a busy volunteer fire volunteer fire department “this one call made their year” By Dave Andrusko It’s a good thing perseverance won out at the Coolspring Township Volunteer Fire Department in La Porte County, Indiana. According to Marcella Raymond of WGN-TV, there had taken a big fight to get a Safe Haven Baby Box …

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Baby saved by “Safe Haven” law thanks her ‘Tummy Mommy’ for her ‘Really Good Life’

By Dave Andrusko Do I have a book for you, or what? “Fire Station Baby” is the title. What, you ask, could that possibly be about? Glad you asked. Twelve years ago, then-engineer Tom O’Neill answered a knock on the door of a Westminster fire station which is located in Denver. It was February 15, …

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