US Safe Haven Laws allow a parent to relinquish their unharmed infant to a designated Safe Haven provider within a specific time after birth.
For immediate assistance, call or text our 24/7 Safe Haven Crisis Helpline: ​
In case of emergency, call 911.
Meet The Team
Please meet the team that works tirelessly to promote life saving measures and help parents and Safe Haven providers. This team is made up of professionals such as social workers, firefighter/paramedics, pregnancy health/support clinicians, and trauma-informed crisis intervention specialists who give their time generously to prevent infant abandonment.
Amanda Jones
Executive Director
Amanda leads our amazing team of passionate, compassionate, and professional staff at the National Safe Haven Alliance (NSHA). As a dedicated nonprofit leader, community advocate, and servant-hearted professional with a lifelong passion for helping others. With extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, community engagement, and volunteer development, Amanda brings a strong foundation of compassion, strategy, and advocacy to her role as Executive Director of the National Safe Haven Alliance.
Amanda has spent years building meaningful connections through community service, event leadership, and organizational development. She currently serves as President of her community association and President of the Lions Club she is a member of, while also holding leadership roles within Ohio Lions. Her commitment to service has earned her the International Presidential Award for her outstanding contributions to humanitarian efforts and leadership.
Throughout her career, Amanda has championed causes centered around family support, women’s health, and community empowerment. Her personal journey navigating women's health has fueled her passion for education, advocacy, and creating safe spaces for individuals facing crisis and uncertainty.
Amanda is committed to expanding awareness of Safe Haven laws, strengthening partnerships nationwide, and ensuring that vulnerable families have access to life-saving resources, support, and education. She believes leadership begins with compassion, grows through service, and thrives through collaboration. Amanda’s mission is simple: to create lasting impact by helping people feel seen, supported, and never alone.
Dr. Maura McGlynn
Director of Research and Statistics
Maura McGlynn is a licensed pediatric occupational therapist and a clinical child psychologist. Dr. McGlynn has specialized training and experience with infant and perinatal mental health, including focusing on parent-child relationships beginning in pregnancy up through the age of five-years-old. Dr. McGlynn's experiences with medically-based perinatal mental health (labor and delivery, NICU, and postpartum units) has yielded opportunities to support families in high adversity contexts, including correctional medical environments, prenatal substance exposure/neonatal abstinence syndrome treatment, child services and foster placement, high-conflict family environments, and parental behavioral health challenges. These experiences built a passion and a knowledge-base to support safe infant surrender and holistic family care.
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Christopher Snider
National EMS/Fire Liaison
Christopher Snider, NRP, EMT-P, entered pubic safety in 2002 in North Carolina. He left the field and spent 3 years working in nonprofit administration. In 2019, he returned to paramedicine, working in the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeast New Mexico as both an EMT and a petroleum safety consultant. At the onset of the COVID pandemic, he was in paramedic school. Then in late 2020, his son was born with complex medical needs, which changed his career path and his way of caring for patients. After achieving his paramedic certification in 2022, he and his family relocated to Fort Wayne, Indiana. He worked as a paramedic in a 911 system, and then as a Critical Care Transport paramedic. In 2025, he returned to the oil and gas industry in the Permian Basin full-time as a safety consultant and remote paramedic, where he specializes in emergency incident planning and response. His family resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he visits them as often as he can.
Leticia Sanchez
Director of Communications
Leticia Sanchez is a recent college graduate who earned a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Social Work at Montclair State University. At Montclair State, she has worked under the supervision of Dr. Emily Douglas where she learned about Safe Haven laws and helped conduct research on them, as well. She helped create a study on the education, knowledge, and attitudes of Montclair State students on Safe Haven laws and presented the results at the Montclair State Student Research Symposium in April 2024. She oversees and manages the social media, works on graphics for events, helps create the Monthly newsletter, and works on Fundraising opportunities for NSHA.
Jennifer Greene
Director of Support Services
Jennifer is a non-profit professional dedicated to disability advocacy and pregnancy resource support. Having served for seven years in multiple roles in crisis pregnancy center support services, her passion is grounded in a belief that every individual deserves dignity, access to services and compassionate care. She also serves on the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities and the Virginia Society for Human Life. She enjoys working with organizations to support community-based programs that provide practical care and meaningful support for those in need. In her spare time, she enjoys walks in nature, savoring a good cup of hot tea, spending time with her husband and family and listening to crime thriller audiobooks.
Suzanne Hobbs
Director of Media Relations
Suzanne Hobbs is an award-winning former television news anchor, Amazon best-selling children's book author, and nationally recognized advocate for Safe Haven Laws for more than 20 years.
A graduate of Idaho State University with a degree in communications, Suzanne spent 14 years as an investigative news reporter and main anchor. Her life changed in 2000 while covering the tragic death of an abandoned newborn in an alley dumpster. Determined to prevent similar tragedies, she led the effort to pass Idaho's Safe Haven Law—an experience that later came full circle when she became an adoptive mother through the very law she helped champion. Her daughter Lilly is now 23.
Suzanne's inspiring story has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, shared in national media, and included in Dr. Shellie Hipsky's Common Threads trilogy, where she was recognized as one of the "100 Most Inspiring Women in the World."
Today, Suzanne continues to use her voice to educate, inspire, and advocate for vulnerable infants and families. She is the author of The Hungry Snake book available on Amazon, with proceeds supporting Safe Haven awareness efforts.
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As Director of Media Relations for the National Safe Haven Alliance, Suzanne is committed to expanding public awareness of Safe Haven Laws and helping ensure that every parent in crisis knows there is a safe and legal alternative.”