Immigrant Civic Integration and Service Access Initiatives: City-Sized Solution for City-Sized Needs

ImmigrantIntegration and Service Access Initiatives focuses on five cities of varying sizes (Cupertino, CA, San Francisco, CA, Littleton, CO, New York, NY, and Seattle, WA) that have done promising work in promoting immigrant integration. The author draws content from five highly rated applications for MPI's E Pluribus Unum Awards. Among the initiatives described in the report are: Cupertino's Block Leader Program, Littleton's library-based one-stop information center, New York's city-wide language access policy, Seattle's Race and Social Justice Initiative, and San Francisco's Community Ambassadors Program. A central element in all these initiatives is the effort to "fully leverage existing resources...rather than the creation of parallel or stand-along services..." The various programs also rely on "authentic partnerships" with community members and on strong political leadership, especially from the mayor's office. (Abstract courtesy Nicholas Montalto, PhD.

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