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2020 CENSUS COMPLETE COUNT STEERING COMMITTEE

Meeting Date:	01/27/2020
Subject: Federal, State, Regional and Local Updates
Submitted For:	David Twa
Department:	County Administrator
Referral No.:
Referral Name:	Federal, State, Regional and Local Updates
Presenter:	Kristine Solseng	Contact:	Kristine Solseng, 674-7809

Information

Referral History:

This is a standing item on the Steering Committee agenda to receive new Census information that has developed or been disseminated from the federal, State, regional and local levels since the last Steeering Committee meeting.

Referral Update:

Federal (U.S. Census Bureau)

Census is Hiring: The Census Bureau is looking to hire more people in Contra Costa County – the bureau has reached 76% of their recruitment goals. They will assist in recruitment workshops and looking for local partners and help with promotion
Media Campaign has begun
Continued work with Statistics in School Program
Census Bureau has announced a Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (MQA) Program - The Census Bureau will coordinate with the County and Partners for MQA locations.

State (California Complete Count)

State Media Plan has been released
QAC/QAK Guidance is available. We will be integrating into our QAC/QAK Toolkit and will be avialable online shortly
SwORD Dashboard has been announced for live response rate updates
State is working on a QAC/QAK Lookup Tool

Region 3 Updates (United Way Bay Area)

Please promote UWBA Texting Tool Available: Texting tool for people to sign up for update and
information about the Census. Available in 12 languages
Marketing Material Available: Both print and social media available at:
uwba.org/census. Hard copies expected by the end of the month along with Canvassing Guidelines
QAC/QAk and Canvassing Guidelines are or will be available in the near future
Social Media Toolkit is Available
UWBA is lead for Canvassing in the Bay Area - Training provided on January 30th.
All Updates, Webinars, and Resources available online: UWBA has its monthly update calls, Regional meeting, and webinars notes available at uwba.org/census

Local Updates

156 Partner Sign ups
59Ambassador Sign Ups
All Cities have presentation and resolutions - working on school districts. State would like to see "Census Week Resolutions"
Two new interns, Census Outreach Specialists, have been hired - please welcome Tanya Hyland and Jennifer Rios
Regional Census Training Workshops for February have been announced
Gave presentations, training, and participated in a number of community events
New flyers and outreach toolkits available online (www.cococensus.org)
Mapping of all events and calendaring in development

Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):

RECEIVE federal, state, regional and local updates on preparation for the Census.

Fiscal Impact (if any):

None.

Attachments
Updates Presentation (PDF)