Please consider making a financial contribution to Safe Haven Nevada and help us realize our goal of eliminating abandoned babies in Nevada. Contributions to Safe Haven Nevada are tax deductible.

Your dollars will fund distribution statewide of education materials promoting the Safe Haven Act, volunteers answering crisis phone calls and emails from parents requesting information on safe havens in Nevada and training for law enforcement, fire fighters, child protective services, ambulance personnel and health professionals.

The Safe Haven Act is a Nevada law that allows parents to leave a baby up to 30 days old at a hospital, an urgent care facility, a public fire-fighting agency or a law enforcement agency without fear of arrest or going to court. This law does not protect a parent from being arrested and criminally prosecuted if the baby is a victim of abuse or neglect.

In Nevada, the Safe Haven Infant Protection Act allows an individual to surrender an infant with no fear of arrest or prosecution. No names or records are required. The parents can bring a baby less than 30 days old to any hospital, and urgent care facility, an occupied fire or police station or they can call 911 to have an ambulance dispatched to the location. The appropriate government child protection agency will immediately take the newborn into custody and place the infant in a foster or pre-adoptive home.

Checks can be made payable to the "Crisis Call Center" and should be sent to:

Kathy Jacobs, Executive Director
Crisis Call Center
PO Box 8016
Reno Nevada 89507

Please do not send cash. For further information please call 775.884.8085.