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.

Weeks Educational and Social Advocacy Project

Also known as WESAP.

11 TOMPKINS CIR, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301-3125

Weeks Educational and Social Advocacy Project is a nonprofit organization in New York, New York that serves immigrants and refugees.

WESAP serves immigrant youth and families (notably Liberian and Spanish-speaking communities) in Staten Island and Brooklyn through early childhood/afterschool education, a youth arts program, family navigation guidance, and emergency financial assistance.

Mission

Providing quality education to empower young people, especially girls, to pursue positive changes in their local and global communities, providing healthcare assistance, and assisting families, especially immigrants, to develop independence and the ability to navigate the systems of care available to them in the communities in which they reside...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “WESAP staff provide guidance for immigrant families as they navigate the social services and education systems in New York City.”
  • Cultural programming: “The music program provides a unique opportunity for youth to play an instrument that is not frequently available in schools or other local music establishments.”
  • Education / youth: “The Mariners Harbor location opened its doors in September 2022 to provide early childhood education in one of Staten Island's most underserved communities.”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “WESAP also provides financial assistance to families when they encounter events that pose hardship.”

Website in English only.

Communities served

Liberian.

Service area: Staten Island, NY and Liberia.

Contact

Founded 2016. IRS NTEE code Q33. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2024. EIN 27-2928926.

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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).