December Somos Vecinos Census 2020 Newsletter

Next Complete Count Committee Meeting
Thursday, January 16, 9-11am

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Next Complete Count Meeting
Be sure to join us at the next Ventura County 2020 Census Complete
Count Committee meeting on

Thursday, January 16 from 9:00 to 11:00 am
VCCF, 4001 Mission Oaks Blvd in Camarillo.

Second Round of Funding Applications Due Jan. 15

~ Two Ways to Apply ~

Click below to apply for funding for community-based organizations. Funding requests will also be considered for private businesses and individuals through this link. 
 
The deadline to apply is January 15.
The application for Subcommittees to apply for funding for their specific outreach efforts is now available online. Please click the button below to follow the link. 
 
The deadline to apply is January 15.

We are grateful for the work and commitment of our first round grantees!

Read more about VCCF funding

CBO Training Schedule

For all CBO Grantees, please see the following dates for Grantee Orientation:
 

January 9, 9-11 am – CBO Orientation Session

February 11, 9-11 am – CBO Coordinating Meeting

March 11, 9-11 am – CBO Coordinating Meeting

VCCF, 4001 Mission Oaks Blvd in Camarillo.

Resource Updates

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NALEO Webinar & Policy Brief on
Hispanic Question in Census 2020

Recently, the NALEO Educational Fund created a webinar and policy brief providing context and a comprehensive overview of the Hispanic origin and race questions in the Census.
 
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US Census Bureau Group Quarter
and Transitory Location Information
The United States Census Bureau has created several one pagers to explain the operations and key dates for the Group Quarter and Transitory Location enumeration process. 
 
View Resources (under Specific Populations)

New Census Volunteer Sign Up Tool

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During our Complete Count Committee meeting, we unveiled our new Volunteer Sign-Up Tool: CountingTogether.site. Right now, this tool is set up for volunteer registration, but starting in January, this tool will help with volunteer coordination, event organization, and become a one-stop-shop for sourcing materials.
 
Be sure to sign-up if you haven’t yet! And contact Joe De La Cerda with any questions.

Committee Member Spotlights

Somos Vecinos. We Are neighbors.

Gloria Massey Chinea, Chair of Faith-Based Subcommittee Ventura County Counts Wife, mother, grandmother, and resident of Ventura County, Gloria Massey Chinea also has an extensive professional and educational background. She has a Masters in Public Health and has retired from her administrator position at SJRMC and was an Oxnard College and CSUN University Profession. She is also a POV Founding Member, EIPCa Ventura County Coordinator, Residential Care administrator and an active Public Notary.

She is spiritually driven, involved with her local parish ministry, and her passions include providing education to people in our community and facilitating services to the community with simple processes, the truth and integrity.

Gloria joined the Ventura County 2020 Census Complete Count Committee as Chair for the Faith-Based Subcommittee because she believes it is important that everyone will be counted in Ventura County. “It is my personal believe that the faith-based community leaders are the “trusted messengers” in the process of all residents of Ventura County being counted, said Gloria. 

Join us in the endeavor of being counted. We all Count, We all are Neighbors! ¡Todos Contamos, Somos Vecinos!

Justine Fischer, Partnership Specialist for the 2020 Census in Ventura County.  Justine is an ardent community advocate and has a background of working with and for children and youth, especially those in under-served and vulnerable communities. 

She has hones skills in leadership development, non-profit management, stakeholder engagement, creating welcoming environments, volunteer engagement and storytelling for advocacy. She has spent her life working in the non-profit world both professionally and as a volunteer. She is a Past-President of California State PTA, splitting her time between her home in Ventura County and Sacramento. Spending time in schools and being an advocate for students and families. 

She was the Director of Religious Education for the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for fifteen years. Part of her responsibilities included outreach and service to the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), the Children’s Service Auxiliary (foster care), the LGBTQ+ population and children with disabilities.

She is passionate about the 2020 Census. She knows from personal and professional experience Census data touches all the services, programs, public institutions and common use areas, like freeways throughout the county.  Ventura County is her home and she feels everyone living here is her neighbor. She is working to ensure that everyone here in the county knows they count!

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Census for All
California’s Partner Portal

Finally, be sure to sure to sign up with California’s Census for All Partner Portal to access communication and marketing materials from the State.
 

VCCF and the County of Ventura Award More than $500,000 in Census Funding

VCCF and the County of Ventura recently awarded more than $500,000 to Community Based Organizations throughout the county. The purpose of the grants are to support and provide educational outreach activities to hard-to-count populations as part of the 2020 Census for Ventura County.

Proposed activities range from creating educational materials, providing trainings, putting on language-specific plays, coordinating Census events, to hosting Questionnaire Assistance Centers and Questionnaire Action Kiosks at their facilities. The deadline for the next round of funding is January 15, 2020.

Applicants can apply here.

 

The grantees and amounts awarded are as follows:

GranteeAmount Awarded
211 Ventura County of Interface Children & Family Services$5,000.00
Area Housing Authority$10,000.00
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme$66,000.00
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA)$30,000.00
CAREGIVERS: Volunteers Assisting the Elderly$1,000.00
City of Simi Valley$20,000.00
El Concilio Family Services$34,900.00
First 5 Ventura County$13,500.00
FoodShare$40,000.00
Gold Coast Veterans Foundation$7,584.00
Inlakech Cultural Arts Center/Lucha$8,000.00
Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project$40,000.00
Nueva Vista Media$15,000.00
Nyeland Promise$40,000.00
One Step A La Vez$15,000.00
Organización de Líderes Campesinas en California, Inc.$50,000.00
Planned Parenthood of California Central Coast$10,000.00
Project Access, Inc.$5,000.00
Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce$26,500.00
Spirit of Santa Paula$5,800.00
Ventura County Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc$9,872.00