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.

South-East Asia Center

Also known as SEAC.

1134 W AINSLIE ST, CHICAGO, IL 60640-3602

South-East Asia Center is a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois that serves immigrants and refugees.

SEAC serves low-income Southeast Asian and other immigrants/refugees in Chicago with childcare and preschool, after-school programs, senior day services and meals, ESL classes, energy/benefits assistance, and transportation.

Mission

SOUTH-EAST ASIA CENTER OFFERS ESSENTIAL SOCIAL SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TARGETING LOW-INCOME LIMITED-ENGLISH SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES. SOUTH-EAST ASIA CENTER ("SEAC") OFFERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, SENIOR PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS FOR LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. IN ADDITION, SEAC OFFERS THE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES. MAJORITY OF SEACS CLIENTS ARE CULTURALLY DIVERSE IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY.1) THE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS SERVICE FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM 6 WEEKS OLD TO 13 YEARS OLD. FOR CHILDREN AGED 6 WEEKS TO PRE-SCHOOL, SEAC OPERATES CLASSROOMS FULL-TIME M-F.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Benefits enrollment: “TO HELP LOW-INCOME IMMIGRANT FAMILIES AND OTHER ENGLISH-LIMITED SPEAKING PERSONS ACCESS TO PUBLIC BENEFITS SUCH AS SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANT PROGRAM(SNAP)”
  • Childcare: “THE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS SERVICE FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM 6 WEEKS OLD TO 13 YEARS OLD.”
  • Education / youth: “THE PRIORITY OF THE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM IS TO ASSIST CHILDREN WITH HOMEWORK.”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “SEAC ADMINISTERS THE FEDERALLY FUNDED LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANT PROGRAM(LIHEAP)”
  • ESL / English: “SEAC OFFERS THE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES.”
  • Food assistance
  • Transportation: “SEAC PICKS UP ADS PARTICIPANTS IN THE MORNING AND RETURNS THEM TO THEIR HOMES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON.”
  • Cultural programming

Languages

Services delivered in Chinese, Vietnamese, Amharic, French, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Malay.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Southeast Asian.

Contact

Founded 1982. IRS NTEE code P280. Revenue $2,657,713. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 36-3168093.

Other organizations in Chicago

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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).