Safe Space

ID: 3048 ~ Source: Flynn, Maxine. Interviewed my Mrs. Clifton [Betsy] Robinson, March 9, 1977, in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
This file appears in: Evangelia Settlement

Maxine Flynn, Director of Social Services for Waco ISD, notes that Evangelia Settlement functioned as an in-between space for foster children. The home provided a place for children until they were placed in a more permanent foster home or with adoptive parents.

This file appears in: Evangelia Settlement

By Allie R. Lopez
Seeking to provide refuge to children and families in need, the Evangelia Settlement Home opened in 1908. Established by religious reformers Ethel Dickson and Nell Symes, the home aimed to care for the least of these throughout Waco’s community for…