WINDSOR HEIGHTS, Iowa — Windsor Heights is fundraising for a Safe Haven Baby Box, which allows parents in crisis to surrender custody of a child up to 90 days old, the city’s fire department announced on Facebook.
The fire department is partnering with the Knights of Columbus, a global Catholic fraternal service order, and Safe Haven Baby Box to bring the box to the Windsor Heights Public Safety Building.
Donations can be made here.
What is a Safe Haven box?
Thanks to Iowa’s Safe Haven Act, parents can safely and anonymously surrender custody of their infant at designated safe haven locations like a hospital, police station, fire station or baby box, and they cannot be arrested or charged with abandonment…