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.

Salt Lake American

1151 S REDWOOD RD STE 102, SALT LAKE CTY, UT 84104-3727

Salt Lake American is a nonprofit organization in Salt Lake City, Utah that serves immigrants and refugees.

Salt Lake American serves Somali refugees in Salt Lake County with 24/7 language interpretation and system-navigation guidance, survival English training, application assistance, food distribution, and community health outreach.

Mission

Serving refugees living in Salt Lake County who are unable to communicate in English and do not know how to navigate the system on-call 24-7 free with a language interpreter and guidance through the system...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “Assistance is provided to walk-ins in filing Online Applications for assistance where resources are available for employment, housing,”
  • Cultural programming: “Organized a multiethnic performing arts festival grant funded to provide visibility of Salt Lake American to the general public and of its services and to promote inclusion of diversity and goodwill”
  • ESL / English: “Survival English Training Custom designed for refugee survival significantly challenged by language and cultural barriers functional English vital life”
  • Food assistance: “Disbursed grocery staples to Somali Community refugees living in Salt Lake County provided by the LDS Church Bishops Storehouse in-kind grocery grant of $24,000 to 242 families”
  • Health education: “Utah Dept of Health Disparities Office COVID Community Health Worker Partner Project participation by a staff of three to reach out to the Somali Refugee Population”
  • Interpretation / translation: “providing language interpretation and guidance to the refugees who do not know English nor their way around our system free on-call 24-7”

Languages

Services delivered in Somali, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Pashto, Dari.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Somali.

Contact

Founded 2007. IRS NTEE code X40. Revenue $25,000-99,999. Latest Form 990: 2024. EIN 20-5361935.

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