Safe Harbor Children's Waiting Room
Safe Harbor Children's Waiting Room
- Available to families conducting business at the courthouse & annex building
- Not available for children of jurors or attorneys
- FREE OF CHARGE
- Open to Children from 6 months to 12 years old
- Located on the first floor of the Judicial Center, near the cafeteria.
- Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Please fill out forms completely and present them upon registering children for Safe Harbor
- Registration Form (PDF)
- Formulario de Inscripcion (PDF)
Interested in Volunteering at Safe Harbor?
Fill out the 2 page Volunteer Application:
- Page 1 - General Information (PDF)
- Whoever checks the child(ren) in, must be the one to pick them up or tend to any needs the child may have while in Safe Harbor.
- Parent/adult may not leave the courthouse building for any reason. This includes going to another county building within the complex or outside for a cigarette.
- Parent/adult must tend to diapering needs while the child is in Safe Harbor.
- Parent/adult will be given a pager. Pager must be returned upon completion of courthouse business. If pager is not returned, you will be billed $200 for it’s replacement.
- The pagers are specially programmed. Please do not touch any of the buttons on the pager.
- If your are needed in safe harbor for any reason, you will be paged. The page must be answered immediately.
- When your courthouse business is completed, you are required to immediately return to Safe Harbor.
- If your location in the courthouse changes, you must notify Safe Harbor.
- Safe Harbor closes promptly at 12:00 p.m.
- In the event of an evacuation, the children & safe harbor staff will be taken to a pre-determined safe location, accompanied by an armed deputy, and will return to Safe Harbor after it determined to be safe to do so.
- La persona que registre al nino(a) o ninos al entrar , debe ser la persona que los recoje y la persona que atiende a sus necesidades durante el tiempo que se encuentren en Safe Harbor.
- El padre/adulto no puede salir del edificio por ninguna razon. Esto incluye salir a fumar.
- El padre/adulto debe encargarse de cambiar al nino(a) mientras esten in Safe Harbor.
- Cuando su caso en la corte se termine, debe regresar a Safe Harbor a recojer a su nino(a) inmediatamente.
- Si el lugar de corte cambia, usted debe notificar a Safe Harbor lo mas pronto posible.
- Si se le necesita en Safe Harbor , le llamaremos por el “pager”. Usted debe contestar la llamada inmediatamente.
- Los “pagers” estan especialmente programados. Por favor, no toque los botones del “pager”.