A local youth nonprofit that has helped dozens of Portsmouth teens is preparing to expand with a new facility promising more ...

The first Safe Haven Baby Box was installed in Woodburn, Indiana, in 2016. Seven years later, the organization has 191 baby boxes in 14 states and are expanding into their fifteenth state -- Alabama.

The first Safe Haven Baby Box in the state of Oklahoma was installed on July 6, 2023, at Fire Station 21, 3000 SW 29th St. Officials say as of now, none of the Safe Haven Baby Boxes have been used.

Harris, 60, has been homeless for over a decade, and before he was at a safe haven he had been staying “from place to place,” sometimes on a friend’s couch, sometimes in the subway.