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...
Bilingual International Welcomes New Mental Health Director
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...
Genocide and Rwanda: A Survivor’s Story – June 26, 2019
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...
Macklind International Senior Center to Expand, Add New Programming
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...
Bilingual International Selected for First Round of NSC Capacity Building Scholarships
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...
Dec. 25 Jewish and Muslim Day of Service Engagement
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....
Second Annual Trivia Night – Thank You!
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...
Bilingual International Awarded Gateway Globe for Culture
On November 1, 2018, the World Affairs Council of St. Louis and the St. Louis Regional International Partnership inaugural Gateway Globe Awards honored Bilingual International Assistant Services as an agency that "inspire[s] us through their efforts to promote global...