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.

Okyeman Union of Greater Washington Area

14333 Laurel Bowie Road, Suite 307, Laurel, MD 20708

Okyeman Union of Greater Washington Area is a nonprofit organization in Laurel, Maryland that serves immigrants and refugees.

A Ghanaian (Akyem/Akan) community association in the greater Washington area serving newly arrived Ghanaians, youth, and seniors with educational programs, cultural events, tax clinics, legal aid including immigration document help, homeless feeding, and financial/insurance workshops.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Cultural programming: “educate the youth on variety of topics including the rich culture of the Akan people of Ghana”
  • Education / youth: “Okyeman Union provides incentive programs for the youth school and college bound students with financial advisory and social services information pertaining to their education”
  • Financial literacy: “Tax Preparation and Advisory services on taxes under our Tax Clinic Workshops organized during the tax season”
  • Food assistance: “Okyeman Union also periodically organizes homeless feeding programs for the homeless in the Washington DC Metropolitan area.”
  • Legal / immigration: “assisting in the preparation, filling and filing of documents on immigration, civil and domestic legal issues and notary public services”

Website in English only.

Communities served

Ghanaian.

Contact

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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).