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.

Special Service for Groups

Also known as SSG.

905 E 8TH ST, LOS ANGELES, CA 90021-1848

Special Service for Groups is a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, California that serves immigrants and refugees.

SSG serves underserved ethnic minority communities including Asian Pacific immigrants/refugees and limited-English-proficient individuals, providing behavioral/mental health services, health-care interpretation and translation, case management, housing and employment support, and health-access advocacy.

Mission

Special Service for Groups, ("SSG"), is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing community-based solutions to the social and economic issues facing those in the greatest need. SSG has evolved into a model organization which is designed to provide service to diverse groups with maximum efficiency and impact. This is achieved by developing and managing programs which serve our many communities by encouraging their involvement and self-sufficiency. SSG believes that the needs of groups and individuals cross traditional ethnic, racial, and other cultural boundaries. SSG serves as a bridge between people with common needs to identify ways to pool resources for the greatest good of all.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “advocating for policies and practices that allow our clients to thrive in their communities”
  • Case management: “case management”
  • Employment / job training: “job training and transportation assistance”
  • Health education: “Prevention education and intervention”
  • Housing: “permanent and transitional housing placement, emergency shelter”
  • Interpretation / translation: “PALS for Health offers interpretation, translation, and interpreter training services in health care settings across Southern California.”
  • Mental health: “outpatient mental health counseling service, assessment and follow-up treatment for children and family mental illness and substance abuse”
  • Transportation: “job training and transportation assistance”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Asian Pacific Islander.

Federal recognition and registries

  • OVC trafficking victim services
  • SAMHSA substance use treatment locator

Contact

Founded 1952. IRS NTEE code P840. Revenue $223,200,666. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 95-1716914.

Other organizations in Los Angeles

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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).