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.

Hispanic Center of Western Michigan

1204 CESAR E CHAVEZ AVE SW, GRAND RAPIDS, MI 49503-8032

Hispanic Center of Western Michigan is a nonprofit organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan that serves immigrants and refugees.

The Hispanic Center of Western Michigan serves the Latino/Hispanic community of Grand Rapids with interpretation/translation, immigration navigation, workforce training, financial coaching, youth education and bilingual preschool, food pantry, health education, and bilingual mental-health counseling.

Mission

The mission of the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan is to provide various services to the Hispanic community. Primary services include interpreting and translating, job training and employment services information and referrals for local social services, youth services and activities, immigration assistance, cultural diversity training, community education and outreach, and cultural events planning...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “Our staff guides families by navigating processes and systems to find and acquire the support needed to become self-sufficient.”
  • Digital literacy: “digital literacy, and skilled trades”
  • Education / youth: “We offer help with school enrollments, applying to college, FAFSA, and scholarships.”
  • Employment / job training: “Offering Workforce development services such as: career development, unemployment assistance, financial coaching education & vocational training”
  • Financial literacy: “financial coaching education & vocational training”
  • Food assistance: “food pantry”
  • Health education: “Join one of our FREE health classes and at the end you receive a $20 gift card for your participation.”
  • Interpretation / translation: “Provided 4,535 interpretation appointments and 1,332 translation requests”
  • Mental health: “We also offer onsite 1:1 counseling services by a bilingual therapist every Wednesday & Friday who can effectively communicate and provide support in both”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Service area: West Michigan / Greater Grand Rapids area.

Contact

Founded 1980. IRS NTEE code P840. Revenue $5M-9.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 38-2265825.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).