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Effectively Engaging the MENA community in the 2020 Census
Peer Learning Lab Friday, August 28, 2020
Census Outreach Highlights
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Effectively Engaging the MENA community in the 2020 Census Peer - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Effectively Engaging the MENA community in the 2020 Census Peer - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Effectively Engaging the MENA community in the 2020 Census Peer Learning Lab Friday, August 28, 2020 Census Outreach Highlights 2 CAIR CA Statewide MENA Partners Di Diverse Outreach Teams for Phone Ban ankin ing an and Text Ban ankin
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CAIR CA Statewide MENA Partners
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Di Diverse Outreach Teams for Phone Ban ankin ing an and Text Ban ankin ing
- Afghan Coalition
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Armenian National Committee of America
- American Muslim Community Foundation
- Muslim American Society – PACE
- Muslim Students Association West
- Pars Equality Center – LA
- Partnership for the Advance of New
Americans
- Support Life
- CAIR Los Angeles
- CAIR Sacramento Valley/Central California
- CAIR San Francisco Bay Area
- CAIR San Diego
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Multilingual Virtual QAC
- Languages
- English
- Arabic
- Farsi
- Dari
- Pashto
- Armenian
- Urdu
- Spanish
- More than 7,000 incoming
calls/returned calls from phone banking
- Over 2,000 requests for in-
language support
- Collaborative partner effort
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Connecting the Census wit ith Faith
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MENA Language Videos
- https://youtu.be/FJXjNXkSr
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MENA Language/Ethnicity Visuals
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MENA La Language/Ethnicit ity Lo Locations
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Lessons Learned
- Adapting due to COVID
- Phone banking and text banking
- Grocery store outreach and locations where community gathers
- Creating MENA language materials
- Arabic is one of the 12 translated languages
- Languages Guides available: Farsi, Urdu
- Partners supported: Dari, Pashto, Armenian
- Using trusted messengers to educate that data will be
secure
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A Memorable Story from Our Census Journey
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The Development and Support of Young People and Team Members (actual gifs from team chats)
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Resources for Census Outreach to MENA Community CAIR CA Census Landing Page: 2020becounted.com
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