by Monarch Immigrant Services | Jan 10, 2021 | Featured, Media, New
With profound appreciation for her life and work, we honor the passing Friday, January 8, 2021, of Sister Jean Abbott. Sister Jean, who founded the St. Louis Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma in 2001, was a foundational figure in the St. Louis refugee...
by Monarch Immigrant Services | Jul 27, 2020 | Events, Media
Marcelina DaSilva brought a new perspective to the annual presentation Bilingual International Assistant Services hosted in collaboration with the Missouri History Museum, and the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center to commemorate the UN Day in Support of Victims of...
by Monarch Immigrant Services | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured, Media, New
Bilingual International was proud to welcome frontline refugee service professionals from Egypt through the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) facilitated by the World Affairs Council of St. Louis on September 23, 2019. The visitors represented a range...
by Monarch Immigrant Services | Jun 28, 2019 | Events, Media
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...
by Monarch Immigrant Services | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured, Media, New
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...
