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.

Transition House

425 E COTA ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101-1623

Transition House is a nonprofit organization in Santa Barbara, California that serves immigrants and refugees.

Transition House provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, case management, childcare, employment services, financial literacy, ESL classes, and children's education programs for homeless families, predominantly Latino, in Santa Barbara.

Mission

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to alleviate poverty and restore self-sufficiency and dignity. Family Homeless Shelter and Housing ProgramsTransition House offers shelter, housing and antipoverty services for homeless families with children that come from the greater Santa Barbara area. Our goal is to help families gain the skills and the income they need to return to rental housing and to sustain it. Our programs include:Three-Stage Family Housing Continuum with Support Services.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “establish realistic income and savings goals with the help of a case manager”
  • Childcare: “FREE LICENSED CHILDCARE”
  • Education / youth: “Tutoring and a daily literacy program”
  • Employment / job training: “Career counseling, financial management, and educational enhancement continue.”
  • ESL / English: “free evening classes including English as a Second Language”
  • Financial literacy: “Financial Literacy Workshops”
  • Food assistance: “CLIENTS RECEIVE THREE MEALS A DAY”
  • Housing: “Transition House offers emergency shelter, transitional housing, and service-based affordable rental housing to homeless families.”

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Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Contact

Founded 1986. IRS NTEE code L410. Revenue $7,377,228. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 77-0099755.

Other organizations in Santa Barbara

All organizations in Santa Barbara | All organizations in California

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).