Agency Details:

Baby Blue Foundation

The Baby Blue Foundation honors Baby Blue’s short life through prevention of future newborn abandonment and fatalities. The Foundation works to raise awareness about the prevalence, causes and alternatives to neonaticide (death within the first 24-hrs of life due to harm or neglect). Finally, in the absence of family members to attend to funeral arrangements, we help to provide dignified memorial service to newborns who have died as a result of abandonment to neonaticide.

Description:
In addition to our primary mission, we are involved in fundraising activities which may include community events. Predominantly, we are a referral organization. We provide women experiencing an unexpected pregnancy alternatives to neonaticide or abandonment. We work to promote the NJ Safe Haven program.

History:
On Jan. 17, 2004, Bill Ferrier while walking on the beach spotted something lying at the water's edge. He picked up what appeared to be debris -- a yellow laundry bag.
Opening the sack, he found the body of a newborn girl. She had been strangled and discarded.
In order for Bill to heal, he shifted his focus from himself to the infant, by naming her, Blue.
Bill's primary concern was what would happen to Blue if her family went unfound. He contacted the authorities to let them know that if the family went unfound, he would take responsibility for burial arrangements.
Blue was buried with dignity on Dec. 4, 2004.

Contact person: Susan Ferrier, Vice President, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (609) 487-2376

Address:

227 N Somerset Ave Ventnor , NJ 08406 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.babybluefoundation.org

Directions:

From the Black Horse Pike make a left onto West End Blvd. West End Blvd turns into Wellington Ave. Continue to Dorset Ave. Go to the third traffic light on Dorset and make a left. Follow to Somerset Ave. Make. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: Ventnor Pathmark, 10 minute walk

Last updated on July 30, 2009