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We are very excited to announce that our partnership with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DH1930A0001) has been approved for an additional three years! With this funding, we will continue our innovative Naturalization Services for Elderly Refugees and Elderly Legal Immigrants program, currently in its tenth year. Since 2009, we have helped […]

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 consumers – specifically ethnic and racial minority consumers […]

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 families with children in district schools. She has worked with St. Louis’s […]

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 start in Europe with the Jews and […]

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 Tutsi father and a Romanian Jewish mother-most of […]