This Week's Facts:
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Help Raise Brain Health
Awareness this Weekend
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Initiative Leads People with
Disabilities to Arts Careers
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State Hosting Special Events
Through Census Day
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FAQs, Telephone Assistance
Available for Census Help
Take 10
Challenge Encourages Call to Action
The U.S. Census Bureau has initiated a Take 10 campaign to
encourage people to take the lead in motivating our communities
to fill out their census questionnaires and mail them back in.
Here are some suggestions:
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FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE MAYORS OF BANNING
AND BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA.
The mayors of
Banning and Beaumont, Calif., have made a
Take 10 challenge:
whichever mayor ends up with the higher mail participation
rate will get a fine dinner served up by the others’ mayor
and city councils. If you’ve set up a challenge, let us
know (pio.2010@census.gov); we’d like to feature some in a
press conference at the National Press Club Mar. 22.
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CHECK OUT THE TAKE 10 VIDEO.
Take a
look at this
new, short video about TAKE
10 from Census Bureau Director
Robert Groves.
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HOST A TAKE 10 EVENT.
The
city of Denver is holding a
TAKE 10 event
on Tuesday, March 23 with community leaders to fill out and
mail back their questionnaires. One of the tips that
Denver’s telling people to do is to encourage people to post
reminders on their Facebook pages to fill it out and mail it
back.
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HELP YOUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE
CENSUS IS ABOUT.
Do constituents have concerns about the
constitutionality of the
census?
Check out these videos and share them with your community.
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DOWNLOAD THE
TAKE 10 TOOLKIT
for promotional suggestions,
ready-to-use flyers, speeches, news releases, door hangers,
PSA scripts, twitter feeds and more to help you.
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MAKE SURE YOUR COMMUNITY KNOWS HOW WELL IT
IS PARTICIPATING IN THE CENSUS .
The
first Mail Participation Rates will be posted on the 2010
Census Web site on Monday, March 22. After you look up your
rates, you’ll have the option of downloading a Rate Tracker
that you can imbed on your community’s Web sites. Once it’s
on your site, the tracker will automatically update every
day. For now, you can go to our
online map
to see how well your community did in 2000.
Have Questions?
Contact
pio.2010@census.gov
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Friday Facts Editorial Team:
Katharine Springer
State Data
Center Coordinator
Elisabeth
O’Donnell
Federal Documents Librarian
&
Kim Brown-Harden
State
Documents Coordinator
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Help Raise
Brain Health Awareness this Weekend
 The
week of March 15-21 is Brain Awareness Week! Started by the
Dana Foundation in 1996, its purpose is to
promote the progress and benefits of brain research. A
coalition of government agencies, hospitals, universities and
nonprofits unit to educate their communities about the wonders
of the brain and brain research. Your community may have
displays at museums, libraries and even the local mall. There
are partners in Brain Awareness Week all over the world; to see
a list of organizations in Indiana that are involved, check out
this
link from the Dana
Foundation.
There are also ongoing projects meant to educate people on the
importance of keeping their brain healthy. The National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) runs the
Sara Bellum Blog
specifically geared toward teenagers. Here, teens can find out
the science behind drug-induced brain damage. The National
Institute of Health has a several websites that deal with a
variety of brain-related topics. Patrons may be interested in
learning about
mental illness,
neurological disorders and the
effects
of aging.
Initiative Leads People with Disabilities to Arts Careers
 Arts+
People with disabilities = opportunities!
ArtsWORK Indiana is a
group-wide effort to provide people with disabilities
professionally related careers in the arts. In the fall of
2004, a statewide forum was created to address the issue of the
arts as careers for people with disabilities. In addition to
job creation, ArtsWORK Indiana performs outreach activities by
educating, entertaining and providing insight into the lives of
the disabled. This organization relies on
volunteers to assist with
programs and opportunities to enhance the lives of the disabled
in the community.
Meetings are open to
everyone and are held on the fourth Thursday of the month. For
more information on this program or about the Arts, please visit
the
Indiana Arts Commission’s website.
State Hosting
Special Events through Census Day
 The
Indiana Department of Administration issued a news release
Tuesday that contained press events for the coming weeks
concerning the census in Indiana. The release is as follows:
“This week households across Indiana receive their 2010 federal
census forms. The governor is issuing a proclamation which
encourages ‘all Hoosiers to promptly complete the census
questionnaire when received’. Between now and April 1st
(Census Day), the state is conducting ten press events
emphasizing the importance of the census and the many ways it
impacts Indiana.
The schedule of events includes:
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Higher Education,
Tuesday, March 23, West Lafayette. University officials and
students will discuss the impact of the census on colleges
and universities and remind out-of-state students that as
residents of Indiana for more than 6 months of the year,
they should complete their census questionnaires using their
Indiana address.
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Disaster Preparedness,
Wednesday, March 24, Madison. City officials will focus on
the need for good population data for disaster preparedness.
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K-12, Thursday, March
25, Richmond. A teacher and other educators will speak to
the impact of accurate census data on public education and
planning for schools.
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Housing, Monday, March
29, LaPorte. A family will speak about the benefits
of the home weatherization program, funded through federal
monies allocated based on population estimates.
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Information Services,
Tuesday, March 30, Fort Wayne. Library officials will
discuss the importance of the census to information and
services available to the public through Indiana’s
libraries.
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Social Services,
Evansville, Wednesday, March 31, Evansville. A foster family
will discuss the impact of the census count on funding for
foster care and adoption services.
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Veterans, Thursday,
April 1 (Census Day), Indianapolis. A veteran will discuss
his service to our country and the obligation under law to
complete the census form.
FAQs, Telephone Assistance Available for
Census Help
 Did
you receive a 2010 Census form this week with the wrong address?
Take a look at
this flyer from the Census
Bureau that shows you what to do. One thing the flyer does not
say is that you may also call a Census Bureau
Telephone Questionnaire Assistance Center.
Also, Questionnaire Assistance Centers and Be Counted sites were
posted yesterday on the
2010 Census main page under
“Need Help with Your Form?” which leads you to The Take 10
Challenge Map where you can find a help center by city or zip
code. Other frequently asked questions (FAQs) about this year’s
census form can be answered using the
Questions You May Have
portion of the 2010 Census website. |
