Welcome

The Shield of Athena Family Services is a non-profit community based organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and children victims of conjugal and family violence, particularly those coming from ethnic and Anglophone communities. The Shield offers services in a wide variety of languages and uses an approach which is both culturally and linguistically attuned to the needs of the ethnic communities. With one office in Laval and the other in Montreal, it is involved in three core activities:

• Specialized, multilingual, services for victims available at the Montreal and Laval offices

• The Shelter (Athena’s House) provides a multilingual, safe and empowering environment for women and their children victims of family violence

• Multilingual services for communities which informs communities in their language of origin on various topics related to family and conjugal violence

 

Information sessions

The Shield of Athena offers information sessions to ethnic communities in their language of origin and in a culturally sensitive manner on various topics related to family and conjugal violence such as:

  • cycle of violence
  • repercussions of abuse
  • types of abuse
  • police procedure (To view the demonstration DVD produced by the Shield of Athena on police procedure and existing resources, click here.)
  • relevant Canadian and Québec laws
  • resources that exist for the victims
  • children witnesses
  • violence among young people

The sessions are presently offered in the following languages:

  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Creole
  • English
  • Farsi
  • French
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Romanian
  • Spanish

For more information or to book a session, call 514-274-8117 (Montreal office) or 450-688-6584 (Laval office) or email us at bouclierdathena@bellnet.ca