Doctor
Founder and Director of Shalom Bait
In addition to carrying out the directing of the organization, she conducts admission interviews, co-coordinates groups of women who are victims of gender-based violence, and devises projects for presenting in both national and international calls.
Her work in Family Violence began in 1999 in the Argentine Family Violence Prevention Association, where she was part of the team assisting men who inflict violence. She was a member of the Board of Directors of ASAPMI (Argentine Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse) and of the supervision team at the Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson Shelter for Women who are Victims of Gender-Based Violence in the City of Buenos Aires. She has been a guest lecturer in congresses and graduate classes related to this issue and in institutions related to the fields of health, health centers, hospitals, and the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
After conducting extensive research and field work, in 2001 she began the process of creating a project to provide comprehensive assistance to gender-based violence victims, which led to the founding of Shalom Bait in 2003.
fernanda@shalombait.org.ar
Attorney
Founder of Shalom Bait and Legal Affairs Coordinator
Specialized in Family Law, she built a career in this field for 10 years. She began to work exclusively on this topic in 2003, when she joined this project and started the organization together with Director Fernanda Tarica.
In Shalom Bait, she coordinates the Legal Affairs Department, where she is responsible for the following up and supervising of the legal interventions made. She also provides legal counsel both individually and in groups of women, as well as legal representation related to abuse reports, contact orders, self care, financial support, and divorce. She is a member of the institution’s training team. She was a member of the Board of Directors of ASAPAMI, the Argentine Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse, and was a guest lecturer in congresses and graduate classes related to this issue.
Psychologist
Shalom Bait Founder and Support Area Coordinator
She was part of the Shalom Bait project and foundation in 2003.
She co-coordinates groups of women victims of gender violence, a group of mothers protecting children victims of sexual violence, and coordinated a group of women survivors of sexual violence in childhood. She conducts intake, follow-up, and interdisciplinary interviews. She participated in various training activities organized by the institution.
She worked in different devices of the Secretariat of Social Promotion of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. In recent years, she has done so in Andares, a program to accompany children and adolescents in situations of sexual exploitation.
Currently, in parallel with Shalom Bait and with private clinical assistance, she works at Ñande Roga, a Feminist Accompaniment Space against Gender Violence (a project of the Training and Gender Secretariats of CTAA Capital.
Psychologist
In Shalom Bait, she co-coordinates groups of women who are victims of gender-based violence, the group of mothers protecting children who are victims of sexual abuse, and the group of women who survived sexual abuse in their childhoods. She works as a trainer in several training activities organized by this institution. She joined our team in 2014. At the same time, she has worked as a court-appointed expert witness for Federal Courts since 1989, directing and evaluating psychical harm.
She began working in the field in 1985, in the first Project for the Prevention and Assistance of Beaten Women at the School of Public Health of the School of Medicine (University of Buenos Aires). She was a member of the Board of Directors of ASAPAMI, the Argentine Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse, from 2005 through 2015. In addition, she was the main expert in Gender and Health in Region V, in the province of Buenos Aires, from 2013 through 2016.
Attorney and mediator specialized in Family Law
In Shalom Bait, she is a member of the Legal Affairs Department, where she provides legal counsel both individually and in groups of women, as well as mandatory legal representation in violence reports and other legal proceedings related to this issue (such as financial support, contact orders, self care, parental responsibility, divorce) from a cross-discipline approach.
She has been part of the Shalom Bait team since 2014, when she began working in this field.
Psychologist
In Shalom Bait, she co-coordinates groups of women who are victims of gender-based violence, and deals with admissions, individual interviews, and cross-discipline interviews. She joined the Shalom Bait team in 2018.
Cecilia began working in this field in 2004 at the Álvarez Hospital, applying the Protocol for Assistance to Women Victims of Sex Violence. She worked as a psychologist providing assistance and prevention services in the Gender Policy Management of the Tigre Authority, and as Coordinator of the “Encuentro” (encounter) Program for Women in the neighborhoods of said Municipality.
Psychologist and Social Worker
In Shalom Bait, she conducts admission interviews and co-coordinates groups of women who are victims of gender-based violence, as well as the group of mothers protecting children who were victims of sexual abuse. She takes part in several training activities organized by the institution. She joined the Shalom Bait team in 2011. Hilda began her work in this field in 1994, providing services as a social worker in a Family Court in the City of Buenos Aires, where she still works today.
At Shalom Bait, she conducts admission and follow-up interviews, and co-coordinates groups of women victims of gender violence. In 1990 she was appointed Director of the first Family Violence Prevention Program in the City of Buenos Aires, from where she promoted the first Assistance Centers for women, violent men and child victims of sexual violence. She also participated in the creation of the first telephone line to assist women and children and the first shelter. She was Director of the Social Programs area of the Joint.
Tamara Santoro Neiman
Social Worker
Volunteer Area Coordinator
At Shalom Bait he is part of the Assistance and Communication area. She conducts admission, counseling and social assistance interviews, and co-coordinates groups of women in situations of gender violence. She participates in gender theory research groups at the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA). She worked in Halfway Shelters and Houses of the General Directorate for Women, and did her pre-professional internship at the Comprehensive Approach Service for Gender Violence at the Obra Social of the City of Buenos Aires.
Lawyer
At Shalom Bait, he is a member of the legal area, providing legal advice in individual interviews, and legal sponsorship in complaints of violence and judicial proceedings related to the situation (food, communication regime, personal care, parental responsibility, divorce), all from a perspective interdisciplinary. She also works in the National Program to Fight Impunity of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation, as a legal advisor specializing in victim care. She started working on the theme.
She is part of the Shalom Bait team since 2022.
At Shalom Bait she co-coordinates the group of survivors of childhood sexual violence and conducts admissions, individual and interdisciplinary interviews. She also works at the Center for Assistance to Victims of Crime (CENAVID) of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. She worked as a psychologist in the Victims Against Violence Program and coordinated Comprehensive Sexual Education workshops.
Secretary
She is who assists and receives women when they arrive in Shalom Bait for the first time, looking for a way out of the violent situation they are immersed in. She carries out administrative work and provides permanent support to all areas of the institution.
Communication and design
In Shalom Bait he works doing web design, graphic campaigns, material for social networks and institutional pieces. His work is transversal, giving support to the areas of communication, training, prevention, assistance and institutional development.
milena@shalombait.org.ar