Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Burmese American Community Institute

Also known as BACI.

4925 SHELBY ST, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227-4221

Burmese American Community Institute is a nonprofit organization in Indianapolis, Indiana that serves immigrants and refugees.

BACI serves the Burmese and other refugee/immigrant communities in greater Indianapolis with refugee resettlement, citizenship and English classes, college readiness and youth development, employment and microenterprise support, basic-needs assistance, and advocacy/civic engagement.

Mission

Mission to build a thriving self-sufficient and sustainable integrated Burmese Community through advocacy education and employment. Since its inception BACI has assisted more than 20,000 individuals through its various programs the Upward College Program UCP for High School students that helps the students with college preparedness linguistically and academically as well as for their future success the Civic and Cultural Education program CCEP that empowers new Americans with security in their rights and liberties and Employment and Microenterprise Development EMED which assists newcomers to be self-sufficient economically and allows them to give back to their communities and contribute to e...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Advocacy Program: BACI advocates for successful integration of newcomers through education, employment, naturalization and civic engagement, refugee protection, the advancement of the Burmese-American community”
  • Case management: “We help newcomers with their integration process and, in effort to meet their needs, by connection and information sharing through various channels, including newsletter, email mailing list, social media, referrals”
  • Citizenship: “We provide English & Citizenship classes and assist newcomers with their naturalization process, including filing forms N400, G-28 etc.”
  • Civic engagement: “the Civic and Cultural Education program (CCEP) that empowers new Americans with security in their rights and liberties”
  • Economic development: “We assist newcomers with their employment, training, and give small business start-up assistance as they become self-sufficient.”
  • Education / youth: “Upward College Program (UCP) for High School students that helps the students with college preparedness linguistically and academically”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “Basic Needs Assistance: we help members of the community with their needs in the areas of housing, transportation, nutritional food and health.”
  • Employment / job training: “We assist newcomers with their employment, training, and give small business start-up assistance as they become self-sufficient.”
  • ESL / English: “We provide English & Citizenship classes and assist newcomers with their naturalization process”
  • Food assistance: “Basic Needs Assistance: we help members of the community with their needs in the areas of housing, transportation, nutritional food and health.”
  • Housing: “Basic Needs Assistance: we help members of the community with their needs in the areas of housing, transportation, nutritional food and health.”
  • Mental health: “CHWP promotes a healthy community and the wellbeing of members of the community by helping address the issues surrounding mental health, behavioral health, physical health, social emotional health and others.”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “Refugee Resettlement Programs: Our resettlement programs give families a new start in Indiana.”
  • Transportation: “Basic Needs Assistance: we help members of the community with their needs in the areas of housing, transportation, nutritional food and health.”
  • Cultural programming

Website in English only.

Communities served

Burmese.

Federal recognition and registries

  • ORR refugee resettlement funding
  • ORR unaccompanied children program
  • USCIS citizenship program grant

Contact

Founded 2012. IRS NTEE code P84. Revenue $3,680,539. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 45-2377550.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

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