Service Name: SAFELY SURRENDERED BABY ( SAFE HAVEN FOR NEWBORNS )
Organization Name: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Location
Location Name: ENLOE MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL
- Accessibility: Designated, Accessible Parking Spaces|Fully accessible to individuals using mobility aids
- Physical Address: Emergency Care, 1531 Esplanade Chico, Chico, CA, 95926
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- Description: Providing a program to protect newborns from abandonment, the Safely Surrendered Baby law in California allows a parent who is unable or unwilling to care for a newborn to legally, confidentially, and anonymously surrender their baby to a hospital within three days of birth. The parent will not be arrested or prosecuted for child abandonment and can leave the hospital with no questions asked. A 14 day "cooling off" period is established if the parent changes their mind. Safely surrendered babies are given a medical exam and placed in a foster home or pre-adoptive home.
- Website: http://www.babysafe.ca.gov/
- Phone(s):
- Hours: Newborns can be safely surrendered to the Emergency Rooms at local hospitals 24 hours a day.
- Eligibility: Newborn infants within three days of birth.
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Areas Served:
- United States
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