SAN DIEGO, CA - UPAC, the Union of Pan Asian Communities, a non-profit organization, will host a special community forum open to community leaders and community members on Friday, March 26 at the Joe and Vi Jacobs Center to address lingering concerns about Census 2010 followed by an outreaching campaign. Serving as the speaker at the community forum is San Diego State University Professor Bey-Ling Sha, PhD, who will cover issues of race and ethnic categories on the census form, how ethnic groups have been historically counted and miscounted, and how census data are used. Interpretation will be available in Tagalog, Vietnamese, Khmer, Lao, and Spanish. Census Bureau representatives will also be in attendance. Immediately after the community forum, UPAC community partners and volunteers will participate in outreaching activities such as door-knocking within hard-to-count San Diego communities, tabling at Asian American businesses, and conducting street walks at busy street intersections.
UPAC?s participation in the 2010 Census effort is critical. UPAC staff already has many established, trusting relationships with San Diego?s API organizations,informed Margaret Iwanaga-Penrose, UPAC President & CEO. The community forum will serve to convey the importance of the census to all our Asian and Pacific Islander communities in an effort to ensure that our communities are counted! Ensuring that San Diego API communities are counted will in turn enable our communities to receive a fair share of funding allocations for the next 10 years. UPAC serves to give voice to and make a difference in San Diego?s diverse communities.
Admission: FREE
Location:
Joe & Vi Jacobs Center,
404 Euclid Avenue,
San Diego, CA 92114.
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Friday, March 26, 2010 - 10 AM - 12 PM
For more information, Please call (619) 232-6454 ext 856 or Please visit: www.apicount.org
UPAC?s participation in the 2010 Census effort is critical. UPAC staff already has many established, trusting relationships with San Diego?s API organizations,informed Margaret Iwanaga-Penrose, UPAC President & CEO. The community forum will serve to convey the importance of the census to all our Asian and Pacific Islander communities in an effort to ensure that our communities are counted! Ensuring that San Diego API communities are counted will in turn enable our communities to receive a fair share of funding allocations for the next 10 years. UPAC serves to give voice to and make a difference in San Diego?s diverse communities.
Admission: FREE
Location:
Joe & Vi Jacobs Center,
404 Euclid Avenue,
San Diego, CA 92114.
MAP
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 10 AM - 12 PM
For more information, Please call (619) 232-6454 ext 856 or Please visit: www.apicount.org
