Monarch Immigrant Services

04/06/2026

Shining our Monarch Moments spotlight on 🔦🔦🔦 Katherine Kempf! ✨She is a Spanish-speaking therapist for children and adolescents here at Monarch!
She was first a social work student here and later signed on as a full-time member of the team 🧡
Fun fact about Katherine: she was a college swimmer 🏊‍♀️

04/02/2026

Big thanks to WashU’s Asian American Association and Chinese Students Association for supporting us in the Face of Asia event fundraiser! ✨ More than 10 Asian affinity clubs came together to celebrate culture, connect, have fun, and represent their club!

We’re honored to be chosen and so grateful for your support. Events like yours make a real difference! Thank you for uplifting the community and bringing people together 🧡🌏

04/02/2026

Just taking a second to brag about our team! 🧡✨
We are excited to share that a whopping FOUR of our leaders were selected for a scholarship to take part in the 2026 Trauma Informed Supervision Learning Collaborative.

This week, Paul Witte, Liz Ricks, Anna Moore, and Diana Gutierrez shipped off to Jefferson City to complete the first of a three-part training series that will allow them to participate in an ongoing learning collaborative with other supervisors and leaders from all over the state.

This training, hosted by the Missouri Academy for Child Trauma Studies and sponsored by the Missouri Children’s Trauma Network, will help strengthen how we support our team and in turn, the immigrant and refugee communities we serve 🌎

Proud of this group and all they’re bringing back to Monarch 🤩🧡

03/27/2026

It’s time for our next Monarch Moment, where we introduce you to the incredible individuals who drive our mission forward, revealing the passion and personality behind the work! 🧡✨
Next up in the spotlight: Mudar Ismail! He is a therapist here at Monarch who just recently achieved his full license as an LPC! Wish him a congratulations!

03/25/2026

Hey! New Program Coordinator position open!
https://monarchstl.org/opportunities/jobs/cymh-coordinator/

03/23/2026

Our team is full of some of the most remarkable folks around! Their personalities, stories, and drive are what makes this place so special. So, here is a glimpse into the heartbeat of our organization 🧡✨ a moment to acknowledge our wonderful team.

Kicking us off:
Meet Shimaa Badawy! She is the Director of Social Services here at Monarch. You can often find her at the farmers markets!

03/20/2026

03/10/2026

We have friends everywhere. Huge thanks to the ladies behind Golden Gems and Hidden Gem STL for selecting us as their monthly charitable organization for February. Go support the community-minded people supporting us!!

03/08/2026

If you ever see us running, we are being chased. That said, the more athletic among you should go support our partners at the International Institute St. Louis for their annual 5K!

🏃‍♀️ Registration is NOW OPEN for Race For Refugees! 🏃‍♂️

We're excited to announce that you can now officially sign up to be part of the 8th Race for Refugees! Join us for the 5k or 1M fun run and be part of an incredible community committed to advocating and raising critical funds that supports refugees and immigrants in St. Louis.

There are so many ways to get involved! You can register as an individual runner, form a team with friends and family, or participate virtually if you can't join us in person. Not a runner? No problem! We need enthusiastic volunteers to help make race day a success. You can also support the Race for Refugees by becoming a sponsor or making a donation. Head to our website now to sign up and join us in making the 8th Race For Refugees the best one yet!



link to race roster: https://raceroster.com/events/2026/114379/race-for-refugees

03/06/2026

Courtney Agee of Moral Mutiny Studio is a talented local STL artist. We are so so very grateful to her for donating proceeds from the sale of one of her pieces to support our work in the St. Louis region.

It means so much when artists use their creativity not only to inspire, but to give back. If the community work gives you a spark, why not use it to pass that on!? 🤩Community support like this helps us continue providing resources, advocacy, and most importantly direct services to the immigrant and refugee individuals and families we serve every day.

Take a moment to check out Courtney’s incredible multimedia work at .mutiny and show some love! She clearly has put so much into her craft. Supporting artists who support their community is always a good idea. 🎨💛

Courtney, thank you for thinking of us and for turning art into action!

02/26/2026

Joan was good people. A lioness of the labor movement and a stalwart advocate for the people doing the lion's share of the labor (*cough* immigrants), we started working with Joan when she was with Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates (MIRA), (which has more or less ended up as the Missouri Immigrant Policy Coalition at Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project- MICA Project), which was helping to bring the Immigrant Service Providers Network STL into the world. Shortly thereafter, Joan sent Daly Sullentrup our way as a bookkeeper, who had been with her since her organizing days in Texas. That was over a decade ago, and Daly has been the heart and soul of grant and financial management at Monarch ever since and - more importantly - a mensch like Joan.

02/25/2026

This is a "support the sponsors" post. The awesome people at Found By The Pound donated a portion of their sales from January to support our work with immigrant and refugee populations in the St. Louis region. Return the favor and visit Found Vintage - South Grand, Found Vintage - Delmar, or make a day of it and hit the warehouse in Berkeley! Go do it!!!