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Looking to learn more about how to address and protect against disinformation and the 2020 Census? This webinar discusses how to identify census disinformation, using the debunked home affairs hoax as an example.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice explains the internet response option for the 2020 Census.

This timeline from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material that highlights key dates for the census through the end of 2020.

Download the 2020 Census Our Count Toolkit to learn more on how you can play a part in ensuring Black Americans around the country know what the Census is, why it matters, and how we all can make sure we, our families, and our communities are counted fairly and accurately in 2020.

The National Education Association's Be Counted Census Flyer is a great way to spread the word of the Census in your communities. The flyer is perfect for bulletin boards and newsletters.

These posters were created by the National Education Association intended for classrooms around the country.

This resource by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement provides a look at key messages that can be used when talking about the census.

Please join us for this informative webinar to address concerns around census confidentiality, provide messaging recommendations to answer community questions, and discuss the implications of Trump’s Executive Order on citizenship data. In this webinar, participants will learn the Executive Order means, understand census confidentiality protections, receive message guidance for responding to community concerns, and actions that stakeholders can take to address census confidentiality concerns.

Download the 2020 Census Arab American Toolkit to learn more on how you can play a part in ensuring Arab Americans around the country know what the Census is, why it matters, and how we all can make sure we, our families and our communities are counted fairly and accurately in 2020.

The National Coalition for Literacy's Adult Education Presentation is a tool for adults specifically in Florida to learn about the 2020 Census and to further encourage their community to be counted.

The National Coalition for Literacy's Adult Education Presentation is a tool for adults to learn about the 2020 Census and to further encourage their community to be counted.

The National Coalition for Literacy's Presentation is a tool for organizers and individuals to use to help prepare their program for a fair and equitable census.

This webinar from the National Coalition for Literacy provided an opportunity for attendees to learn about Census 2020 directly from Census Bureau representatives and heard from NCL members about the unique role adult education can play in the 2020 count.

This webinar described resources and activities aimed at mobilizing adult education students and their communities to get out the census count. Teaching resources shared in the webinar address census basics (what it is, why it matters, and how to participate) as well as census issues (such as past misuse of census data and what’s different now) as they build language, literacy, and numeracy skills. We will also share examples of program-wide campaigns that energize students and give them an opportunity to practice their leadership and civic skills.

This video from the National Education Association focuses on encouraging all communities to respond to the 2020 Census in order to accurately distribute funding and resources.

This resource provides the dos and don'ts for organizing in the field for census.

This resource answers all of the frequently asked questions on organizing in the field for census.

This section of the GOTC toolkit goes over everything you need to know about 2020 Census operations in quick and easy facts.

The Leadership Conference, State Voices, and Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), along with other national hub partners have pulled together this guidance for census outreach in the field, the Dos and Don’ts of community outreach and door-to-door canvassing, along with other resources.

This section discusses the assistance provided by the Census Bureau, and also includes information on language assistance resources and hotlines from Census Counts.

This is a collaboration among the National Council for Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC), and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC and includes tips and content for talking about the census with your friends, family, neighbors, and communities during Lunar New Year gatherings.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice created Count On Your Census to promote a robust response to our nation’s Decennial Census.

This fact sheet from Arab American Institute, New America, and The Leadership Conference Education Fund is focused on providing a snapshot look into the census internet self-response portal.

Pledge cards from Census Counts.

This video from The Arc of the United States is focused on providing facts to people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) on the 2020 Census including what the census is, how to complete it, and why it is important for people with disabilities

This fact sheet from The Arc of the United States is focused on providing suggestions to organizations on how to provide valuable information on the 2020 Census to the disability community and beyond.

This plain language document from The Arc of the United States is focused on providing information to people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) on the 2020 Census including what the census is, how to complete it, and why it is important for people with disabilities.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on how to identify a census taker.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on the variety of language resources available when filling out the census.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on the best way to discuss the 2020 census with your friends and family.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on the importance of counting young children in the 2020 census.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on census confidentiality.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on how your community is impacted by the 2020 census.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on how to respond to the 2020 census.

Census data help guide the distribution of federal funds for programs that serve millions of women and girls with low incomes. The data also help us make decisions about how to support women, girls, and their communities. This fact sheet, published jointly with the National Women’s Law Center, highlights barriers to fairly and accurately counting women and girls in the decennial census and programs that could be impacted by an inaccurate count.

Download the fact sheet from Advancing Justice | AAJC and NALEO Educational Fund on myths about the 2020 Census citizenship question

Common Cause, State Innovation Exchange (SiX), and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has prepared a document for how state legislators can ensure a fair and accurate count.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on what to expect on the 2020 census.

This timeline from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material that highlights key dates for the census through the end of 2020.

This GOTC factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material that provides a brief overview of the census.

This webinar focuses on how students from K-12, teachers, and organizations can help ensure that young children and students are counted in the 2020 Census.

This webinar focuses on how college students, organizations, and staff can get involved in ensuring that college students are counted in the 2020 Census. Our guest speakers discusses how the University of Chicago is planning to Get Out the Count (GOTC) on their campus and local community and how students can take part in APIAVote’s Youth Ambassador program!

This webinar discusses census and data security, diving deeper into how the Census Bureau will be addressing security challenges on the first ever online census questionnaire. We also discuss how the Census Bureau keeps census data confidential and how census data are used to allocate federal funding.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice is leading the Count Us In 2020 campaign focused on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. This is a comprehensive toolkit on community engagement and communication tips for 2020 GOTC efforts. This was last updated December 2019.

Pledge cards from The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance in multiple languages.

As we approach the 2020 Census, many organizations nationally and locally are planning to use phone calls and peer-to-peer texting programs to Get Out The Count. The Census Bureau recently released guidance around outreach that seemed to prohibit utilizing such tactics to drive responses to the Census 2020. However, this messaging does not fully reflect the outreach options that organizations have when promoting participation in the Census. To ensure that everyone stay in compliance while maximizing census outreach, the Census Counts coalition is hosting a webinar to walk through what the guidance means, what organizations can and cannot do, and some best practices from the field.

Many people living in group quarters, such as correctional facilities, are at risk of being undercounted in the 2020 Census. This Group Quarters Operation fact sheet provides advocates and stakeholders with an overview of how people living in correctional facilities will be counted during the 2020 Census.

Many people living in group quarters, such as military personnel, are at risk of being undercounted in the 2020 Census. This Group Quarters Operation fact sheet provides advocates and stakeholders with an overview of how different types of military personnel will be counted during the 2020 Census.

Many people living in group quarters, such as health care facilities, are at risk of being undercounted in the 2020 Census. This Group Quarters Operation fact sheet provides advocates and stakeholders an overview of how people living in health care facilities, including nursing, residential treatment, psychiatric, and hospice facilities, will be counted during the 2020 Census.

Many people living in group quarters, such as crisis and interim housing, are at risk of being undercounted in the 2020 Census. This Group Quarters Operation series fact sheet provides advocates and stakeholders with an overview of how people living in crisis and interim housing will be counted during the 2020 Census.