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	Safe Havens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Safe Havens is a comic strip drawn by cartoonist Bill Holbrook and syndicated by King Features Syndicate.
		The strip originally concerned the group of pre-schoolers at Safe Havens Day Care, but has focused on Samantha and followed her as she has grown up (roughly in real-time) and gone through elementary school, high school, and (currently) college.
		Miss Havens was the operator of the day care and Mike's mother.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Safe_Havens (688 words)

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		It is clear that a safe zone that represented a territorial or a military threat would be a contradiction in terms.[22] The risk faced by a safe area that is not clearly civilian is obvious; it will become an element in the conflict and may be attacked if it is seen as threatening.
		It is the acceptance of a safe haven by the parties that "(underlies) subsequent respect for its condition."[24] This criterion can largely be linked to the demilitarization criterion, because it is clear that a party will not consent to a safe haven if it represents a military threat.
		This attempt to restructure safe havens should be seen as a parallel attempt to an increased protection of the non-refoulement norm, which has been at the heart of the problem in recent safe-haven operations.
	www.beyondintractability.org /m/safe_havens.jsp (4798 words)

	Hart pushes 'safe havens' for unwanted infants
		Efforts to promote "safe havens" for unwanted infants got renewed attention yesterday in the wake of another tragic discovery: Police acting on an anonymous tip found a dead newborn wrapped in a towel in a wooded area of Ellwood City earlier this month.
		Safe havens are designated places, often medical facilities, where parents can safely relinquish an infant and receive immunity from prosecution, as long as the baby is safe and unharmed by abuse or neglect.
		Safe havens, she noted, save two lives --that of the baby and the young woman who, if discovered to have abandoned her child, would be subject to prosecution.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20010626safehavens0626p6.asp (573 words)

	Safe Haven Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Safe Havens are the University's method of providing similar protection for those individuals in buildings that were built before the new requirements were adopted.
		The exterior door to a Safe Haven is marked with a white on blue rectangular sign showing a wheelchair symbol and a flame symbol separated by a wall.
		The Safe Haven Area itself is marked with a white on blue circular sign with a wheelchair symbol surrounded by the words "Safe Haven Area Keep Clear." Some areas also are denoted by blue lines in addition to the circular signs.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /admin/safety/safehaven (468 words)

	Safe Havens
		The Safe Havens initiative was developed to provide temporary housing assistance to households who are currently seeking to leave a shelter or who are otherwise in need of housing.
		Safe Havens is composed of two programs – Safe Start and Safe Place – that provide temporary assistance until the household’s income can be formally verified and the household’s assistance is transferred to another supportive program.
		Safe Place provides 500 housing vouchers a year to persons with serious and persistent mental illnesses who are leaving both shelters and marginal housing situations.
	www.kyhousing.org /page.asp?sec=72&id=474 (506 words)

	Update: Safe Havens for Abandoned Infants
		New Jersey reported 10 safe haven infants, a 63% reduction in infant abandonment, since the passage of their law in 2000 (compared to 8 abandonments prior to the passage of the law).
		Michigan reported nine attempts including one in which a judge ruled that the case was not a safe haven surrender because the parents had not been given enough information on their legal rights.
		Many child welfare experts state that, although safe haven legislation may be a good idea, it needs to be part of a larger effort to enhance services for women who are at risk of abandoning their infants.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/cyf/ailaws.htm (1294 words)

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		Safe Havens, Inc. is a private non-profit organization created to address these problems.
		Safe Havens, Inc. is a transitional living facility for emancipated minors and young adults up to age 21 who are either pregnant or the parent of one child.
		The primary goal of Safe Havens, Inc. is to provide stable housing, and a nurturing environment for up to four years.
	members.tripod.com /whitn5y/SHwhoweare.html (243 words)

	ODS ACONE: Membership: Safe Havens Legislation - From a Doctor's View
		Specifically, the legislation (known as "Safe Haven" legislation) would provide legal protection against prosecution for abandonment if a parent surrendered custody of a newborn in a designated "safe haven" (such as an Emergency Room, Police Station or Fire Station).
		The intent was to remove the threat of criminal charges, giving parents the "option" to leave their children in the arm of police officers or fire fighters instead of abandoning them in dumpsters or alleyways.
		This so-called "Safe Haven" would offer no professional screening for untreated or poorly controlled mental illness, would ensure no treatment, no therapy, would guarantee no effective grace period for those mothers who, when receiving proper medical care for themselves, later wished to reclaim their infant.
	www.odsacone.org /2_4_membership/new_spot_moore.html (1215 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Healey to sign measure offering 'safe havens' for infants
		Mothers in crisis would be allowed to abandon their infants at designated safe havens statewide under a measure Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey will sign into law today, a governor's aide said.
		This shows ''those abandoned in safe havens may have otherwise been cared for by mothers, grandmothers, aunts, or in traditional adoption," he said.
		Havens may save lives, but permitting anonymous abandonment does not allow the child to know his medical history, cannot ensure that the person abandoning the baby is his legal guardian, and does not allow biological fathers their parental rights.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/07/30/healey_to_sign_measure_offering_safe_havens_for_infants?mode=PF (773 words)

	Families Need Protection from Baby Safe Haven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With safe haven laws in effect, lots of newborn babies are now being abandoned, both "safely" and unsafely.
		Regarding these frightened young mothers who leave their newborn son or daughter at a safe haven, I can only imagine what heartache and anguish they must be going through and no one to share it with, possibly for the rest of their life.
		Unfortunately there is an incentive not to return the children to their families: Thanks to the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act when a child, even a healthy baby, is adopted out of foster care, there is $4000 or $6000 bonus to be made from the federal government.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/5/prweb125395.htm (1292 words)

	Saviors and Safe Havens -- 12/24/2003
		They provide counseling and information about infant safe haven laws that allow parents to leave their babies in safe arms at hospitals, police stations and other designated areas without fear of prosecution.
		In Idaho, five babies have been left at safe havens since a similar law was passed in the summer of 2001.
		Supporters of safe havens are asking public officials, private businesses and the media for more help in saving the lives of innocents by spreading word of the laws.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200312\COM20031224b.html (647 words)

	'Safe Havens' For Babies Questioned - CBS News
		Texas was the first state to enact safe haven legislation, in 1999.
		No comprehensive statistics are available on the number of babies abandoned through safe haven procedures; not all states with the laws keep an official count.
		Overall in California, it said, 20 babies were safely surrendered in the first year and a half after its safe haven law took effect in 2001, but 38 babies were illegally abandoned in the same period, including 17 found dead.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/10/national/main543359.shtml (1163 words)

	SAFE HAVENS - A Family Violence Prevention Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Safe Havens offers real hope for creating positive change in the area of domestic violence.
		Calvary is one of 55 congregations participating in the Safe Haven project.
		At the start of the service, several of the Safe Haven Task Force members were introduced to the congregation.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /calvary-ch-um/justice/safehaven2002.htm (388 words)

	Safe Havens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bad news: Safe Haven laws, which allow for the "legal and anonymous abandonment" of newborns, have passed in six states this year: Maine, Washington, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri. In Tennessee, bills supported by fathers' rights advocates that would have gutted that state's current Safe Haven anonymity clause died in House and Senate committees.
		The good news: As of this writing (September 2002) the much-publicized Massachusetts Safe Haven HB 4980 appears to be a no-go.
		Earlier this year, a Safe Haven proposal in Virginia was withdrawn for vote at the last minute when the patron could not collect enough support to secure passage.
	www.bastards.org /bq/bq19/Safe_Havens.html (367 words)

	Reporters Query Begets Safe Havens For Abandoned Infants
		Thanks in no small measure to Brooks' continued advocacy and public service campaign on behalf of the safe haven experiment, Alabama now has a law offering distressed parents, who are typically mothers, the opportunity to safely hand over their children to medical personnel within 72 hours of delivery.
		While a number of pro-life groups support the lifesaving goals of the safe havens, other social conservatives have said they could actually prompt more abandonments and send the wrong message to a culture already struggling with sexual irresponsibility.
		The only organized opposition to the safe haven movement has come from adoption rights groups like Bastard Nation, the five-year old group of adoptees who came together over the Internet and successfully lobbied Oregon lawmakers to open adoption records to children hoping to find their birth parents.
	www.stateline.org /live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=14360 (1399 words)

	MA - 'Safe havens' law moving forward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MASSACHUSETTS http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/Stories/0,1413,106~4994~2021166,00.html 'Safe havens' law moving forward By Jennifer Fenn, Sentinel & Enterprise Statehouse Bureau BOSTON -- Legislation creating "safe havens," a place where parents can drop off unwanted newborns, is one step closer to becoming law after winning final passage in the House Monday.
		Representatives at the safe havens are required to ask for the child's name, name and address of parent placing child, name and address of person placing the child if not a parent, child's birthplace, and child's medical history.
		Abandonment at a safe haven will not result in an automatic termination of parental rights, but it will allow the department to start that process.
	www.talkaboutparenting.com /group/alt.adoption/messages/420613.html (665 words)

	City Provides 'Safe Havens' for Kids
		Kampaign Kidz -- a citywide child-safe-ty partnership that includes S.F. SAFE (Safety Awareness For Everyone), the San Francisco police and fire departments, the Department of Parking and Traffic, the Rec and Park Department, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors -- is celebrating its Safe Haven program on Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m.
		Since 1999, Kampaign Kidz has been working to provide safe havens for children who "may find themselves in a potentially dangerous situation," says Diane Rose, director of the program, which is funded through the Mayor's Office of Children, Youth, and Families.
		Currently, 270 "Safe Havens" are located at social service agencies around the city, including at every police and fire station in San Francisco.
	www.noevalleyvoice.com /2001/May/Safe.html (730 words)

	Safe Havens for Newborns
		In accordance with Public Act 00-207, “An Act Concerning Safe Havens”, a parent or lawful agent of the parent may voluntarily surrender physical custody of an infant age thirty (30) days or younger to the nursing staff of a hospital emergency room.
		The hospital may indicate on the form that it is a Safe Haven case and is not required to disclose the name of the parent or agent, if known.
		Exception: DCF will not involve the local police in a Safe Haven investigation unless there are indications of abuse or neglect which require police notification, as specified in Policy 33-6-18.
	www.state.ct.us /dcf/Policy/Invest34/34-12-4.htm (1044 words)

	Local News
		Safe Haven officials say the jump in the number of babies left at Safe Havens is directly related to increased publicity.
		The states that don't have Safe Havens are Vermont, Hawaii, Alaska and Nebraska.
		But she said children who have been left at Safe Havens have "definitely been placed in good homes" within a week or two after being handed over.
	www.floridatoday.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051211/NEWS01/512110366/1006/news01 (1068 words)

	Harn and safe havens in general
		If honour had been allowed to rule how wars are conducted, safe havens would not have been an issue.
		The Harn Confederacy, which as you may remember consisted of indedependent states in an uneasy alliance, decided to leave all safe havens ungarrisoned to avoid conflicts like this.
		However, as long as we are having fun, We, the Undying Banner will fight for whats ours, thus in the long run alliances built like HC (RIP) are stronger than alliances focusing on bugs, features or rule issues to win petty things like a battle here and there.
	www.pbm.com /pipermail/g2-list/1999/002533.html (456 words)

	Archived -- Extending Learning Time: Creating Safe Havens for Learning
		The city of Madison, Wisconsin operates a Safe Haven after-school program for more than 200 children at three elementary schools in communities with high crime and poverty rates.
		Extending school hours to provide reading and other learning activities, enrichment, and safe and drug-free environments uses resources more effectively as well, by allowing communities to take advantage of their largest capital investment, which otherwise is left unused up to 65 percent of the time.
		Children who participate in Lighted Schools say they appreciate having a safe place to go after school, that it keeps them off the streets, and that it is more fun than sitting at home in front of the television.
	www.ed.gov /pubs/LearnCenters/havens.html (1359 words)

	SFist: Safe Havens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The parent, or a person with lawful custody, must bring the baby to the safe haven and indicate that the baby is being left under the Safe Haven law.
		The Safe Haven location will immediately tag the baby with a coded id bracelet, and will make an effort to give a replica bracelet to the surrendering adult and take a medical history.
		From January 2001-September 2004 (.pdf), 64 babies were surrendered under the Safe Haven law, out of 125 reported abandoned infants.
	www.sfist.com /archives/2005/12/02/safe_havens.php (483 words)

	Safe Havens
		In fact, research by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington-based group, found that a child's chances of being killed at school were one in a million, and that more than twice as many Americans are killed by lightning than at schools each year.
		Predicting risk Even though homicides and shootings in schools do not happen often, ensuring a safe and secure learning environment in the wake of growing youth violence is something all administrators must address.
		It also is one of the few police agencies in the area, as well as one of the few universities in the nation, that has a fully equipped explosives disposal unit.
	asumag.com /mag/university_safe_havens/index.html (2863 words)

	NJLM - Neighborhood Safe Havens
		From Bridgeton to New Brunswick and from Glassboro to Perth Amboy, after school safe haven programs represent a major commitment of volunteerism and mentorship by both the Attorney General's Office and county prosecutors.
		Each of these three safe havens is distinctly different, and offers participating youngsters, respectively: cultural and social activities, educational programs, and athletic and recreational opportunities.
		Again, though, it is the safe haven component that is giving Newark residents - both children and grown-ups - a renewed sense of pride and optimism.
	www.njslom.org /featart0505.html (1739 words)

	Minister for Family and Community Services \| Safe Havens For Children In Indigenous Communities
		Mr Pitt said the proposed Safe Havens, staffed by appropriately trained, qualified and supported workers, will pilot a flexible service model that can be easily adapted in other Indigenous communities in Queensland.
		"The 'Safe Havens: Feeling Safe, Belonging Place' project aims to make sure each community is in control of the process of ensuring children and young people enjoy a better quality of life, and are free from the profound impacts of family violence.
		"Safe Havens projects include strategies to address issues with perpetrators of violence, address substance abuse, and provide short-term intervention to make children and young people safe from exposure to violence," he said.
	www.facs.gov.au /internet/minister1.nsf/content/safe_havens_13nov05.htm (382 words)

	Rethinking 'safe havens' for legal desertion of babies \| csmonitor.com
		First, why the laws aren't working: In a nutshell, a mother who is so distraught or so in denial that she would stuff her newborn into a trash can is not likely, instead, to ask her boyfriend for a ride to the police station.
		The study found that to be the major reason unsafe abandonments are continuing unabated, even in states that advertise their "safe havens" on highway billboards and in public-service TV commercials.
		The proponents of safe havens often answer criticism by saying their approach is worthwhile even if it saves just one baby's life.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0404/p11s01-coop.html (766 words)

	Safe Havens: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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