The Shield of Athena is a non-profit organization for victims of family violence. We offer emergency shelter and professional services to women and their children. Our support, intervention and prevention services are culturally and linguistically adapted to meet the needs of many of Montreal's major ethnocultural communities.
We offer three integrated services:
- Our offices, located in Laval and Montréal, offer multilingual services by professional social workers, trained cultural intermediaries and supervised law students
- Our shelter, Athena’s House, provides emergency housing to women and their children 24/7, in a safe and empowering environment
- Across Montreal and Laval, our community outreach program provides information to men and women in their own languages
The Shield is a registered charity.
News
July 19, 2010- We are very happy to announce that The Shield of Athena was one of the presenters at the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on July 13, 2010. The conference is part of an ongoing series of conferences dating back to 1981. The focus of this year’s conference was on research studies where researchers, scientists and service providers shared their acquired knowledge on family violence.
The Shield of Athena’s director, Melpa Kamateros and co-ordinator Polly Tsonis presented in the workshop entitled “Community assessment of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment”. Their presentation consisted of an overview of the organization’s first 3 public awareness campaigns and their impact in changing perceptions in ethnic communities about family violence, the police procedure and the use of resources.
