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.

Lao American Senior Mutual Assistance

2133 OAK BEND LN, GARLAND, TX 75040-4486

Lao American Senior Mutual Assistance is a nonprofit organization in Garland, Texas that serves immigrants and refugees.

Serves elderly Lao immigrants in the Garland, TX area with case management, interpreting, citizenship and ESL classes, health/nutrition education, congregate meals, transportation, and cultural programming.

Mission

To organize senior citizens of Laotian heritage to mutually assist each other in the areas of transportation, health, nutrition, education, and social interaction...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “We will help you obtain help with your financial, health/mental health, housing and cultural/social problems that need to be addressed by other community-based or government agencies.”
  • Citizenship: “bilingual civic education and citizenship classes. We also help you to complete citizenship applications and support documents”
  • Cultural programming: “Traditional & Cultural Events”
  • ESL / English: “We offer pre-literacy English classes”
  • Food assistance: “Congregate Meals”
  • Health education: “monthly bilingual health and nutrition education”
  • Interpretation / translation: “Escort/Translation/Interpreting services”
  • Transportation: “Assisted Transportation”

Languages

Services delivered in Lao.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Lao.

Contact

Founded 2013. IRS NTEE code P84. Revenue $25,000-99,999. Latest Form 990: 2024. EIN 36-4748548.

Other organizations in Garland

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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).