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.

Spurwink Services

901 WASHINGTON AVE, PORTLAND, ME 04103-2737

Spurwink Services is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Maine that serves immigrants and refugees.

A Maine behavioral health and developmental-disability provider serving children, adults, and families that offers trauma-focused mental health treatment for refugees alongside outpatient therapy, case management, and special-education programs.

Mission

Spurwink responds to community needs by providing behavioral health care, substance use disorder services and support services for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds, and their families. Spurwink provides out-of-home treatment for children and adolescents in 1) residential treatment facility in Cumberland County serving about 20 youth per year; 2) three Special Purpose Private Schools in Cumberland, Androscoggin and Kennebec counties and a Therapeutic Pre-School in York County serving 150 students per year; and 3) treatment foster homes in southern and central Maine serving about 30 children per year.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “Our Case Management teams listen, advocate, support, and coordinate services with families, individuals, and…”
  • Education / youth: “three Special Purpose Private Schools in Cumberland, Androscoggin, and Kennebec Counties and a Therapeutic Pre-School in York County serving 147 students per year”
  • Health / medical: “The evaluation includes an interview of the parent or guardian and an examination of the child by the program medical director, a board certified pediatrician”
  • Mental health: “Spurwink responds to community needs by providing behavioral health care, substance use disorder services and support services for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds, and their families.”

Website in English only.

Communities served

Asylee, Immigrants In Maine (General).

Federal recognition and registries

  • SAMHSA mental health treatment locator
  • SAMHSA substance use treatment locator

Contact

Founded 1973. Revenue $96,383,218. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 01-0319802.

Other organizations in Portland

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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).