Community renovates Supportive Housing laundry room

Written by The SAFE Alliance

SAFE’s mission to end sexual assault and exploitation, child abuse, and domestic violence includes ensuring that each space a survivor enters is welcoming and trauma informed. That includes spaces like our Supportive Housing laundry room, which recently received a much-needed makeover thanks to our generous community.

SAFE Supportive Housing

The SAFE Supportive Housing Program (SHP) is one of our largest healing and safe spaces on the SafePlace Campus. When a survivor exits our Emergency Shelter, they must often choose between homelessness and returning to an abusive home. SHP is designed to help families and individuals who need more time to become independent after leaving a violent relationship.

Cleaning and repairs get underway in the SAFE Supportive Housing laundry room.

While advocates and counselors on the SafePlace Campus do an amazing job of supporting survivors and their families living in SHP units, and our amazing facilities crew do a great job of making necessary repairs in those units, sometimes needs arise that are greater than our budget can take care of.

SHP laundry room walls and plumbing work starts.

Construction on the laundry room’s walls and plumbing begins.

Our SHP laundry room is a much-used space in the units. Due to flood damage and high usage, the laundry room had fallen into disrepair.

Much-needed painting has begun inside the laundry room.

Thank you!

We are so thankful to the following in-kind sponsors for donating their time, materials, and service to make the SHP laundry room a functioning and welcoming space again:

Trenton Cox, Project Manager, and Janusz Sakowicz, Regional General Manager, from Colt Builders and team
Donny Reeves, General Manager of Sales, from Encore Mechanical and team
Pete Manley from Matheus Lumber and team
Jesse Guzman from Gtown Lumber and team
Mike Meierhofer of Meierhofer Electric, his Lead Supervisor Jovany Morales, and team
Clint Basey of 6b Plumbing, Silvester Rivera, his Lead Supervisor, and team
Ron Carillo, owner of Brecca Construction, and his crew

This amazing group of people came together to do a complete rebuild of the SHP laundry room. They put in new HVAC, electrical, floor, and ceiling – and their patience was amazing as this project extended from two weeks to two months.

Thank you all for your support and generosity!