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.

Lasos

33 W COURTLAND ST, BEL AIR, MD 21014-3701

Lasos is a nonprofit organization in Bel Air, Maryland that serves immigrants and refugees.

LASOS serves non-native English-speaking, low-income immigrant residents of Harford County, MD with ESOL and citizenship classes, adult and financial literacy, at-risk youth mentoring and education, and referrals to community service providers.

Mission

To provide quality adult literacy classes including English as a second language, financial literacy, citizenship, at risk youth and family literacy programs as well as a network of service providers for the non-native English speaking community of Harford County...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “we assist clients by referring them to appropriate service for housing, education, legal, medical, utility, nutrition, and any other needs they have as they assimilate into American Society”
  • Citizenship: “Citizenship Courses & Support - the program serves as resources for members in the community to receive help with filling out their applications and passing the naturalization test.”
  • Digital literacy: “LASOS offers literacy classes for technology and finances that are developed to level the playing field”
  • Education / youth
  • Employment / job training: “designed to provide participants with the complex, but effective blend of education integrated with occupational skills training and support services, to prepare them for placement and retention in employment”
  • ESL / English: “The ESOL Program is composed of four levels of English language proficiency and is focused on citizenship and life skills.”
  • Financial literacy: “LASOS offers literacy classes for technology and finances that are developed to level the playing field”

Website in English only.

Service area: Harford County, Maryland.

Contact

Founded 2009. IRS NTEE code P50. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 26-4503259.

Other organizations in Bel Air

All organizations in Maryland

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).