Michigan has been awarded $25,000 from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to conduct the first-ever Asian American community needs assessment project in Michigan. The project will begin in June 2011 with the purpose of identifying the sociopolitical needs of Asian Americans in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, a tri-county area with some of the greatest densities of Asian American residents in Michigan. Michigan will work in partnership with Wayne State University's Center for Urban Studies to design and facilitate focus groups and administer surveys to Asian American residents. Topic areas will include employment, education, citizenship/immigration, and community connectivity/civic participation. http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2011/05/03/news/state/doc4dbfa7517f57d040007435.txt?viewmode=fullstory