finden Sie hier.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nOrganizers are trying to raise more than $1 million and mount a major campaign to reach Ventura County residents likely to be missed in next year\u2019s federal census.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is going to take all hands on deck,\u201d said Mike Pettit, an assistant county executive officer who is working on the effort.<\/p>\n
The county ranks among the top 2 percent of a little over 3,000 counties in the nation most at risk for being undercounted, according to a state study. That\u2019s not only because of income, educational and geographic barriers, but also because many people lack internet access for the survey that is being conducted largely online, organizers said.<\/p>\n
Each uncounted person represents an estimated loss of $2,000 annually for 10 years, said Vanessa Bechtel, CEO of the Ventura County Community Foundation. If more than 100,000 people are\u00a0missed, that represents a loss of billions of dollars for health care, social services, law enforcement, business loans, water systems, transportation and other services, she said.<\/p>\n
Statewide, the census count also dictates how many seats\u00a0California gets in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
Bechtel and Pettit said strong efforts are underway to get a complete count.<\/p>\n
City and county governments, nonprofit organizations and philanthropic foundations\u00a0are being asked for funding to supplement state grants that local officials say will only partially cover the cost of the outreach campaign. Scores of organizations have joined a committee that is trying to turn out a complete count,\u00a0Bechtel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a huge complete count committee with over 100 participants from government, business, nonprofits and libraries,\u201d Bechtel said.<\/p>\n
Early this month,\u00a0the Ventura County Board of Supervisors decided to\u00a0support the outreach effort, allowing the county to receive $288,754 in state funding. Ventura and other participating counties must prepare plans showing how they will conduct the outreach effort, complete\u00a0written\u00a0reports and collaborate with state officials.<\/p>\n
Pettit plans to return to the board with a budget proposal for\u00a0county funding of the endeavor in March. The census date is a little more than a year away on April 1, 2020.<\/p>\n
Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett has called the state funding \u201cwoefully inadequate\u201d for the task ahead. The amounts the county and cities will be contributing is not yet known.<\/p>\n
Areas with a high likelihood of being undercounted include south and central Oxnard, a large area northeast of Ventura along Highway 33, Santa Paula, Fillmore, CSU Channel Islands and Newbury Park.<\/p>\n
The high-risk\u00a0areas are characterized by factors that have been linked with low counts in past censuses, according to state data. Included are neighborhoods with crowded, rented and multi-unit housing, numerous families\u00a0with children under age 5 and homes with low levels of education and relatively high use of public assistance.<\/p>\n
Residents of certain neighborhoods in Oxnard and Santa Paula lack the computer technology that will allow them to respond to the census online, Bechtel said. The figure reaches 40 percent in some neighborhoods in Oxnard, she said.<\/p>\n
Still unknown is whether the census will include a question asking respondents if they are citizens of the United States, which critics fear would depress participation by immigrant communities.\u00a0The Supreme Court agreed Friday\u00a0to decide whether the Trump administration may add the question.<\/p>\n
Volunteers interested in working on the complete count effort may email Bechtel at\u00a0vbechtel@vccf.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}