Pain and strength could be heard in her voice as Marie-Christine Williams shared how 25 years ago, at the age of 14, she witnessed the massacre of her neighbors while hiding in the bush, and continued to live in fear for the 100 days that followed. “Genocide didn’t...
On July 1st, the STEPS to Better Health program will begin a three-year renewed funding award from the St. Louis Mental Health Board (MHB). Now entering its tenth year, this program was incubated at MHB in 2010, as one of the few agency programs targeted to U.S.-born...
We are very excited to introduce our new Director of Mental Health Services, Maria Childress, LCSW. Maria joins the Bilingual International staff after a number of years in the St. Louis Public School system, where she coordinated the Social Work program for ESOL...
Join us to mark the United Nations Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26 by listening to Marie-Christine Williams tell her powerful personal story. At the age of 14, Williams lost her entire family in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The daughter of a Rwandan...
With an award from the St. Louis City Senior Fund, Bilingual International Assistant Services will be expanding its senior center in 2019 to support an additional 40 foreign-born senior residents of St. Louis City. Since opening over 6 years ago, Macklind...
The Network for Strong Communities (NSC), with support from the Nina Needleman Charitable Fund and Centene, has selected Bilingual International for the first cohort of a new scholarship program aimed at helping nonprofit organizations increase their capacity to do...
For the 8th year, Bilingual International Assistant Services was proud to serve as a distribution site for the Jewish and Muslim Day of Service on Dec. 25, 2018. Over 50 volunteers from the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Islamic Foundation of Greater St....
Saturday, Nov. 3 was Bilingual International's second annual Trivia Night - and we sold out! Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Brentwood was gracious enough to provide the venue (special thanks to Pastor Will Hanke and Tracy Sanchez). Our Board of Directors and...