Since 1978, Safe Place of the Permian Basin has been trying to end the cycle of family violence and with the help of a $5,000 United Way of Midland grant now has new mattresses and a commercial refrigerator.
“People would be surprised at the variety of situations we find walking through our doors, whether it’s an elderly person whose a victim of violence from their children, which does happen,” Lee Anna Good, the development director of Safe Place of the Permian Basin, recently told Your Basin. “Even people who have moved to the Permian Basin recently because of the oil boom but still have no family here, if they are in a violent situation and they have no family to turn back to especially when they have children.”
Safe Place of the Permian Basin's work encompasses 15 counties and assists more than 1,000 individuals annually.