Using Data to Further Immigrant Integration in Your Community: Data Collection Tips and Best Practices for Data Usage (toolkit)

What information can data collected from agency staff, clients and community members provide? Why is data helpful, and why should an agency take the time to collect it? What can an agency do with the data once it is collected? This guide offers the following tools to help your program collect, analyze and use data on immigrant integration in strategic ways to help your community become more inclusive.

Using Integration Data to Build Stronger Communities for Long-Term Residents and Newcomers (webinar)

This webinar pinpoints the components of a successful integration initiative, details how to collect important data that can enhance a currently operating integration program, and proposes a plan of action for agencies interested in effectively engaging their community in integration efforts. Learn how to garner buy-in from the agency's clients, staff and community members. Additionally, presenters focus on how to build an initiative designed to address community needs.

Immigrant Integration Survey for Community Members

This survey can be administered either at the beginning or the end of any community meeting or training. It is appropriate for any audience in which community members are in attendance. Also available in Spanish.

Immigrant Integration Measurement Survey: Client Perspective

This survey can be administered during intake at the start of a client’s service journey with your agency or at any other time feedback from a client is needed. Also available in Spanish.

Immigrant Integration Measurement Survey: Agency Staff Perspective

This survey can be administered during an all-staff meeting, or a staff Brown Bag lunch, or via email to the entire agency. CLINIC recommends administering this survey once a year to staff in order to compare results across years. Also available in Spanish.

Would you prefer to distribute the surveys via email? Would you like a non-sample version of the surveys to distribute?

1. Click here to send us an email requesting a link to the surveys, unique for your organization.
2. Once CLINIC receives your email, we will send you PDF versions of all three surveys, a unique link for each survey, and an Excel spreadsheet to use for data collection.

Please email Leya Speasmaker at lspeasmaker@cliniclegal.org with questions