DECEMBER 4: Baby Blue Foundation signage

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The first standardized "Safe Haven" sign will be unveiled at 1 p.m. at Ventnor Police Department. Ventnor has been chosen because it is the home address of the Baby Blue Foundation

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First Safe Haven sign to be unveiled in Ventnor
By MARTIN DeANGELIS Staff Writer, 609-272-7237
Published: Wednesday, December 03, 2008

The Baby Blue Foundation will join Ventnor police officials and representatives of several local hospitals Thursday to introduce to New Jersey the new sign of the National Safe Haven campaign.

The state's first Safe Haven sign - which identifies places where unwanted infants can be surrendered to authorities legally - is scheduled to go up at 1 p.m. outside Ventnor's police headquarters, in City Hall at 6201 Atlantic Ave.

Under New Jersey's Safe Haven law, passed in 2000, police stations and hospital emergency rooms are the only locations where babies no more than 30 days old can be dropped off, no questions asked. So the Thursday event will also present Safe Haven signs to representatives of AtlantiCare, which runs hospitals in Atlantic City and Galloway Township, and officials from Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point and Kessler Memorial Hospital in Hammonton.

But because every state has different rules for their versions of Safe Haven, the National Safe Haven Alliance is producing uniform signs to identify legal surrender locations in each state. Tracey Johnson, the NSHA's executive director, is scheduled to represent the group in Ventnor Thursday.
The Baby Blue Foundation - named for a new baby found dead in a gym bag on the Ventnor beach Jan. 17, 2004 - was started by Bill Ferrier of Ventnor and his wife, Susan. Bill Ferrier found the abandoned infant.

The foundation is also starting a campaign called "Friends Of Blue's" to collect new baby items for the Atlantic County Women's Center and the Atlantic City Rescue Mission. Donations for newborns and young children will be collected until Jan. 19 at Ventnor's City Hall and at Shore Memorial Hospital, Kessler Memorial Hospital and AtlantiCare's Women's Health & Wellness Center, 2500 English Creek Ave., Building 600, in Egg Harbor Township.

For more information, call the Baby Blue Foundation at 609-703-4180. Or visit:

www.babybluefoundation.org