Sugar Creek Fire Department has installed the 64th Safe Haven Baby Box in the nation at Sugar Creek Fire Department Station 41, located at 375 W. National Ave. in West Terre Haute. The box will be made available to the public starting on Monday, May 3 after the community unveiling at 2 p.m. Safe Haven Baby Boxes began in 2016 to address the nation’s infant abandonment crisis, making great strides in giving a voice to this once silent epidemic.
This is the 55th Safe Haven Baby Box in Indiana, the most of any state. Click here for Safe Haven Baby Box locations.
As an infant that was abandoned back in 1973, Monica Kelsey grew up with a vision to embrace, understand, and perfect the Safe Haven Laws, all while helping mothers and children in crisis. With these tasks in mind, she left her career as a firefighter/medic to create the Safe Haven Baby Box Organization.