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.

Safe Hands for Girls

229 PEACHTREE ST NE STE 2440, ATLANTA, GA 30303-1650

Safe Hands for Girls is a nonprofit organization in Atlanta, Georgia that serves immigrants and refugees.

A survivor-led women's rights organization serving immigrant and refugee girls and women (with roots in The Gambia) that provides FGM/child-marriage education and awareness workshops, youth mentorship and after-school programs, survivor support, and policy advocacy.

Mission

THE U.S. ADVOCACY PROGRAM PROVIDES TRAINING OF FGM SURVIVORS TO BECOME INFORMATION ADVISORS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. IT ALSO INCLUDES VARIOUS WORKSHOPS AROUND MULTIPLE U.S. CITIES TO TEACH PRACTICING COMMUNITIES ABOUT FGM AND TO WORK WITH FRONT LINE PROFESSIONALS. YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE CONDUCTED IN AFTER SCHOOL SETTINGS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL REFUGEE STUDENTS AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WITH LARGE IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS AND HELPING THEM BECOME ADVOCATES FOR THEIR OWN HEALTH. THE GAMBIAN ADVOCACY PROGRAM PROVIDES TRAINING OF FGM SURVIVORS TO BECOME INFORMATION ADVISORS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Our SAFE Advocacy program has contributed to new laws being enacted across West Africa to prohibit FGM.”
  • Education / youth: “OFFERS MENTORSHIP; HELP WITH SCHOOL; AND LINKS YOUNG GIRLS (FROM IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS) WITH LOCAL RESOURCES AND LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES”
  • Health education: “Our program concentrates on educating girls about FGM, child marriage and teen pregnancy.”

Website in English only.

Communities served

Gambian, Ghanaian, Liberian, Sierra Leonean.

Service area: Atlanta, Georgia, USA and West Africa (The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone).

Contact

Founded 2014. IRS NTEE code E60. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 46-4883189.

Other organizations in Atlanta

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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).