STUDENT INITIATIVES

Early Start Canvassing

Erase the Undercount - 2020 CENSUS Partners

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SEPTEMBER 2019 - JUNE 2020

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Erase the Undercount Student Initiatives ASIAN COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES CENTER [ACSSC] 2020 CENSUS - Houston Region

ACSSC Student Initiatives to Erase the Undercount 2020 Census

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Houston's Undercount Projection for 2020 Census - Immigrant & Refugee Families l This Region will exceed Census Undercounts of 2000 & 2010 at more than 30+% l $15+ Billion due our region will be lost 2020-2030 l WHY? 'Fear of the Census'

The Solution: STUDENTS ARE THE KEY

S l Students are our Most Ubiquitous & Effective Census Canvassing Resource T l Mirror All our Hard-Core Undercount Profile Demographics - Immigrants, Low Income & Renters U l Will reach 80+ Languages [attached]

D l Aspire to Individual & community civic agency for Census response E l Will lead, train & support their campuses & peers for committed Census response N l Are most trusted voices in their extended families T l Can initiate Census response for their families - by Students as young as 15 yrs. old - per US Census S l DO NOT FEAR THE CENSUS!

"Erase the Undercount" Houston Region l Commissioned by Mayor Turner, City of Houston Planning - ACSSC (2017 -2019) l Proof of Concept Campus Pilots, "Make Youth Count!" - ACSSC & HCC IDEAS Studio (2018 - 2019)

STUDENT INITIATIVES Canvassing that Secures Census Response ACSSC u Project Timeline: SEP 2019 - JUN 2020 1 CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT - - "Make Youth Count!" u Funds Student Stipends 40+ Targeted Campuses / High Schools & Community Colleges / Early College u Builds Student-led, Student-designed, Census canvassing & response engagement u Customizes Campus-Centric Campaigns With Tool Kits [IDEAS / HCC] u Lobbies for Global Class Credit - i.e., Extra Credit Points Incentive in their classrooms u Secures 'Pledge Commitments to Respond' by Students, by Address - for data collection

2 APARTMENT PENETRATION - "APTS are the Black-Hole of our Undercount" - per City Planners u Funds Teacher & Student Team Stipends - APT Residents Canvassing APT Residents u Targets Neighborhoods serving Campuses with 30% - 50% Student Enrollment from Apartment Complexes u Builds & Supports Teacher-Student Teams for response penetration from 'the inside', from 'trusted voices' u Coordinates apartment owners/managers, public officials & US Census to facilitate for Teacher-Student Teams u Shares real time data to support Census response tracking w/ US Census, COH & Harris County MARCH - JUN 2020

3 CURRENT CANVASSING RESOURCE POOL - ACSSC & HCC Early College SW Pilot "Make Youth Count!" u 7 Students > Funded Project active SEP - NOV 2019 u 36 Students > Funding Pending To complete training & deploy their campus campaigns OCT 2019 u 258 Students > On Contact List Ready for Census campus engagement & training opportunities OCT 2019

ACSSC Student Initiatives to Erase the Undercount 2020 Census Project Summary - Page 2 Project Budgets Student Canvassing Plus Initiatives SEP 2019 - JUN 2020 Project Budgets Detail Available on Request

1 CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT High Schools & Community Colleges Student Stipends & Coordination SW Pilot $ 154,053 9 Campuses Harris Co. Plan $ 472,479 41 Campuses Fort Bend Co. Plan $ 72,543 11 Campuses High Schools Only

2 APARTMENT PENETRATION High Schools w/ 30%-50% APT Residents Enrollment Teacher-Student Teams' Stipends & Coordination SW Pilot $ 187,920 8 Campuses / SW Area APT Complexes: 106,043 UNITS Harris Co. Plan $ 464,200 19 Campuses / Targeted Areas APT Complexes: 500,000+ UNITS

Targeted Campuses - EARLY COLLEGE Recruitment Focus u HIGH Elsik Hastings Taylor Kerr Sharpstown Alief Early College SCHOOL Westbury Westside Wisdom Bellaire Northside Milby Sam Houston Chavez North Forest Sterling North Brook Spring Woods Eisenhower MacArthur Aldine Pasadena Sam Rayburn South Houston Nimitz Incarnate Word St. Agnes Cristo Rey Jesuit u COLLEGE HCC Central West Houston Institute HCC HCC Northeast HCC South East HCC Northwest UH-Downtown UH-Central Campus TSU HBU Lone Star

Timeline - Early Start Imperative to Erase the Undercount / Canvassing Plus for Committed Response l Houston's 2000 & 2010 Census Undercounts resulted from LATE STARTS. JAN 2020 Canvassing is too late. l Trust Building to overcome Fear of Census requires repeated approaches over time for Undercount families l Engagement training, coordination, Team Building, strategic deployment for 40+ Campuses takes 3-4 months. l HCC "Make Youth Count!" Students teach us diverse campus-centric engagement is a Process & takes 2-3 months l "Make Youth Count!" & ACSSC are training and deploying students NOW. Project Link: https://spark.adobe.com/page/XxxuSm8OyH0L7/ Project Funding Challenge u ACSSC Student Initiative / Campus Engagement proposed in HiA & Lopez Negrete RFPs for Harris County JULY 2019 u HiA allocated $40K in Harris County RFP, but that funding is not yet available. u Houston Endowment has declined to fund. Brown Foundation has declined to fund. u Proposal submitted to Strake Foundation for SW Pilot / Campus Engagement ($140K) - TBD u COH via Lopez Negrete contract has made $80K available by OCT 2019. Funding dedicated to SW Pilot. u Current project funding confines ACSSC scope of work to SW Houston Pilot. u As regional project funding is available, ACSSC initiatives scale-up for scope of targeted canvassing engagement.

Project Partners - Student Initiatives to Erase the Undercount Houston in Action Lopez-Negrete Communications US Census Regional Office Mayor's Office of Education Houston Planning & Development City of Houston District F - Dr. Steve Le Dr. Steve Murdock - former US Census Director, Hobby Center for the Study of Texas, Rice University Mr. Jerry Wood - former Special Master for Houston Redistricting, Demographics Analyst Dr. Butch Herod - Director West Houston Institute HCC Mr. Jordan Carswell - Program Director IDEAStudio & Academy HCC Dr. Veronica Reyna - Director HCC Center for Civic Engagement Ms. Angela Eleuterius - Operations Director ACSSC Ms. Glenda Joe - Director ACSSC IDEAS Student Corps - Owe Kuyastemi, Azarel Garcia, Joy Nans, Victoria Le & Yashika Mehta ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Houston LANGUAGE Populations 2020 CENSUS UNDERCOUNT CHALLENGE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Asian-Ethnic/International - Immigrant/Refugee Languages 2014 Census Population Snapshot 2010 TOTAL 274,767 104,880 379,647 2013 Pop Increase 32,538 18,639 51,117 * [Secondary Domestic Migration not calculated] 2005-2014 REFUGEE ARRIVALS 22,000 * [Assume 30%-50% Census 2010 Undercount] 2014 TOTAL Asian / International 452,764 TOTAL Region Spanish Speakers 1.3 Million 2010 Census LANGUAGES Harris Fort Bend TOTALS 1 Asian Indian Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu 55,637 34,467 90,113 2 Bangladeshi Bengali 2,054 653 2,707 3 Bhutanese Dzongkha 788 4 792 4 Burmese Burmese 1,634 73 1,707 5 Cambodian Khmer 3,709 324 4,033 6 Chinese Cantonese, Mandarin 45,857 21,752 67,069 7 Filipino Tagalog 27,703 11,789 39,492 8 Hmong Mong 51 8 59 9 Indonesian Indonesian 1,524 507 2,031 10 Japanese Japanese 6,059 942 7,001 11 Korean Korean 14,053 2,033 16,086 12 Laotian Lao 2,145 104 2,249 13 Malaysian Malay 521 242 763 14 Nepalese Nepali, Tamang 1,326 59 1,385 15 Pakistani Urdu 18,456 12,071 30,527 16 Sri Lankan Sinhala, Tamil, Malay 631 129 760 17 Taiwanese Taiwanese 4,324 2,430 6,754 18 Thai Thai 2,842 617 3,549 19 Vietnamese Vietnamese 85,453 16,676 102,129

Resettlement Data REFUGEE LANGUAGES 2005-2014 ARRIVALS 22,000 20 Afghanis Pashto, Dari 21 Azerbaijanis Azeri 22 Bantu Maay Maay, Somali, Af-Maay, Zigua, Swahili 23 Bosnian & Serbian Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian 24 Burundi Kirundi, Kinyarwanda 25 Congolese Swahili, Lingala, Kirundi, Kinyardwandan 26 Eritreans Tigrinya, Kunama, Afar 27 Ethiopians Oromo, Tigrinya 28 Hmong: Mong 29 Kosovar Albanians Albanian 30 Kyrgyzstani Russian, Kyrgyz 31 Malaw Malawian 32 Mali French, Bambara, Arabic 33 Mauritania Arabic 34 Nepalese Nepali, Tamang 35 Polish Polish 36 Romanian Romanian 37 Rwandan Kinyarwanda Somali 38 Sri Lankan Sinhala, Tamil, Malay 39 Sudanese Fur, Massalit, Zaghawa, Dinka, Nuer, Zande, Arabic, Bare 40 Syrian Arabic, French 41 Ugandan Swahili 42 Zambian Bantu, English ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATA: US Census, Texas HHS, COH HAS, Alliance Services COMPILED BY: ACSSC Copyright 2014 CONTACT: Glenda Joe GlendaJoe@GKJoe.com [713] 861-8270 www.HoustonLanguageBank.org