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.

LA Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place

907 4TH ST SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87102-4140

LA Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place is a nonprofit organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico that serves immigrants and refugees.

Encuentro serves Latino Spanish-speaking immigrants in Albuquerque, NM with adult education (ESL, literacy, technology), workforce and home health aide training, small-business and financial development, childcare, and civic engagement.

Mission

To provide educational programs, services, resources and information, and leadership development to low income latinos in New Mexico...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “We offer support and assistance by working together to navigate systems including public benefits, healthcare, and legal services among others.”
  • Childcare: “We offer childcare services and support connecting to community resources.”
  • Civic engagement: “We cultivate pathways for civic and community engagement, championing immigrants to amplify their voices and shape stronger futures for their families”
  • Digital literacy: “strengthening skills in the areas of English language and literacy, High School Equivalency, and Technology are essential”
  • Economic development: “provide small business training and consulting to Spanish speaking entrepreneurs enrolled in Encuentro classes”
  • Education / youth: “We help children with their homework, reinforce values such as confidence, respect, education and more.”
  • Employment / job training: “Encuentro’s Spanish language Home Health Aide (HHA) training program designed to provide educational and career development opportunities to Spanish speaking immigrants seeking to enter the fast growing field of home...”
  • ESL / English: “strengthening skills in the areas of English language and literacy, High School Equivalency, and Technology are essential”
  • Financial literacy: “Encuentro’s Spanish language small business and financial literacy courses”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Contact

Founded 2011. IRS NTEE code P84. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 27-2016727.

Other organizations in Albuquerque

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Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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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).