Census Maryland 2020 Newsletter, June 19, 2020


Maryland Census 2020 MASTHEAD

Census Maryland 2020 Newsletter

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Congratulations to our Census Champions!

Three Named Maryland Census Champions - Each Help Make a Difference in Our Complete Count

Our champions this week are: 

  • Courtney Brohawn, Frederick County
  • Amanda Hailey, United Way of The Lower Eastern Shore
  • Edward Lee, Wicomico County

A Maryland Census Champion is a person or group that has gone above and beyond in spreading the Census message in their community.  Census Champions have devised innovative ways to get their community engaged in completing the 2020 Census. The individual or group being nominated could be a member of a local complete committee, a faith leader, a business leader/owner, or even someone in the community making a difference. Recipients of the Census Champion will be highlighted in this newsletter, on social media, and on the Census.Maryland.gov website.

Download the Census Champion Nomination form and nominate a champion in your community today.


Courtney Brohawn

Courtney Brohawn is the Project Coordinator for the Frederick County Public Libraries. She serves on the Frederick County Complete County Committee and has been a powerful supporter of our efforts to reach out to residents of Frederick County. As a member of the CCC, she played a vital role in developing strategies to communicate the importance of completing the Census to our community. Early on in our efforts, she printed and posted fliers, localized for our audience, in all of the libraries to encourage everyone to complete the census. When our CCC created Census stickers for restaurants throughout Frederick County to place on carry-out meals, Courtney was the first person to reach out to the restaurants and obtain their approval to use the stickers.

Courtney Brohawn Census Champion

Amanda Hailey

Amanda has been a tremendous asset to the Wicomico County Complete Count Committee as she coordinates with all of the local nonprofit organizations through her network at United Way. She has been present at all of Wicomico County's CCC meetings and was a coordinator with our Party with a Purpose Census promotion event, although it was cancelled due to the pandemic.

Amanda Hailey Census Champion

Edward Lee

As Chairman of the Wicomico County 2020 Census Faith Based Sub-Committee, Mr. Lee has been the point of contact from our steering the Wicomico County Complete Count Committee for all faith-based organizations and has been the lead organizer of our Faith based Community breakfast and dinner meetings with leaders.

Edward Lee Census Champion

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Already Taken the Census? Let Us Know

Let us know if you’ve already taken the Census by clicking the I've Been Counted link below. We’ll keep you updated to help you:  

  • Inspire your neighbors, friends, and family on social media to complete the Census 
  • Find out how Census results will impact your community 
  • Keep track of national and local response rates 

I've Been Counted


The 2020 Census Has NOT Been Suspended

Rumor

The 2020 Census has been suspended or cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

HERE ARE THE FACTS 

Although some of the activities undertaken by the US Census Bureau have been adjusted or delayed, self response to the 2020 Census continues through October 31. The Census can be completed online, by phone or by mail. Click here to take the Census now.

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In This Issue

  1. Three Named Maryland Census Champions Make a Difference in Our Complete Count
  2. As of June 19, Maryland Self-Response Rate at 65.5 Percent
  3. Congratulations to Maryland's Municipalities That Have Exceeded Their 2010 Response Rate for Census 2020
  4. Count MD In: The Importance of the 2020 Census Amid COVID-19| Virtual Panel on Facebook
  5. County Complete Count Committee Outreach Highlight:
    Calvert County
  6. County Complete Count Committee Outreach Highlight:
    Howard County
  7. Partner Video: Howard County CCC's PSA: #HoCoCounts Important, Easy and Safe
  8. St. Mary's Public Schools Takes the Census Message to Elementary Students During Their End of School Pick Up
  9. Shape the Future for the Next Generation
  10. Despite Coronavirus, Maryland’s Census Response Rate Is Higher Than Expected
  11. Commissioners Recognize 2020 Census Benchmark for St. Mary’s County
  12. C. Burr Artz Library in Frederick Gets the Word Out to Patrons During Book Pick-Up
  13. VeggieTales Wants Everyone To Complete the 2020 Census
  14. Salisbury-Wicomico CCC Takes Part in Unity Rally on the Lower Shore
  15. 2020 Census Workers to Count Population Experiencing Homelessness in September
  16. Cost of Motherhood on Women s Employment and Earnings
  17. Census Bureau Completes Delivery of 2020 Census Materials to 96% of Households
  18. Census Maryland 2020 Social Media

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Upcoming Meetings and Events


For further details, go to the Maryland Census 2020 Events page

Count MD In: The Importance of the 2020 Census Amid COVID-19 | Virtual Panel sponsored by UMD Office of Community Engagement

Jun. 22

11:00 a.m.

Prince George's County CCC Meeting|
Virtual

Jun. 23

6:00 p.m.

Calvert County CCC Meeting | Virtual

Jun. 24

10:00 a.m.

Baltimore City CCC | Virtual

Jun. 25

10:00 a.m.

 


News and Events


As of June 19, Maryland Self-Response Rate at 65.5 Percent

As of June 19, Maryland’s self-response rate to the 2020 Census is 65.5 percent, while the national average is 61.6 percent. Maryland is 12th in the U.S., just 0.3% behind ##11 Utah and .5% behind #10 Indiana, and remains 2nd in the region, behind only Virginia at 66.4 percent. Maryland is ahead of Pennsylvania (64.8 percent), Delaware (59.4 percent), the District of Columbia (57.6 percent), and West Virginia (53.2 percent).

Carroll (77.3 percent and number 27 in the entire U.S. out of 3,200+ counties), Howard (75.3 percent), and Harford (73.6 percent) counties are leading the state.  Twenty two Maryland counties/jurisdictions have achieved self-response rates over 50 percent and 15 counties rates exceed the national average.

View Maryland County and Municipality Response Rates at the MDP's Census 2020 Response Rate At-A-Glance Dashboard

June 19, 2020 census response rate

Congratulations to These Municipalities that Exceeded Their 2010 Response Rate in the 2020 Census This Week

Berwyn Heights; Centerville; Chesapeake Beach; Colmar Manor; Galena; Hampstead; Keedysville; La Plata; Manchester; and Thurmont

Berwyn Heights surpasses 2010 reponse rate

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Galena surpasses 2010 Census response rate

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Count MD In: The Importance of the 2020 Census Amid COVID-19 | Virtual Panel

A Facebook Live Event sponsored by the University of Maryland Office of Community Engagement will be held on June 22. The virtual panel includes: 

  • State Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk
  • Maryland Department of Planning Secretary Robert McCord
  • Jordan Baucum Colbert, Prince George's County Complete Count Committee Outreach Coordinator
  • Lynda Eisenberg, Director, Carroll County Department of Planning
  • Julius Maina, U.S. Census Bureau Partnership Specialist
  • Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, UMD School of Public Health
  • Gloria Aparicio-Blackwell, Director, UMD Office of Community Engagement
  • Tiffany Blossom, Singer and Musician


Event will be held on Facebook Live:  @UMDCommunityEnganement

Count MD In: The Importance of the 2020 Census Amid COVID-19 | Virtual Panel A Facebook

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County Complete Count Committee Outreach Highlight: Calvert County

The Calvert County Complete Count Committee is a diverse and inclusive body that meets monthly. Their outreach efforts for a complete Census of the county include:

  • The CCC distributed flyers with student meals during school closures, and copied and distributed 1,200 of the Maryland Census 2020 School Lunch Flyer via Calvert County Public School’s Grab & Go Lunches in May.
  • Mailed more than 22,250 postcards to the six lowest self-response rate areas identified in Calvert County, including geographic areas with no home delivery or PO box delivery only.
  • Produced Public Service Announcement (PSA ) videos with community leaders in English and Spanish.
  • Partnered with county organizations to include Census messaging in their newsletters including the Calvert Marine Museum, the Water and Sewer Division’s On Tap newsletter, and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.
  • Assisted with the AARP and Complete Count Committees’ Tri-County Forum with federal, state, and local leaders – on temporary hold due to COVID-19 precautions
  • Concentrated outreach to senior citizens and interfaith congregations and placement of posters in post offices.

Visit Calvert County's Census 2020 webpage

Calvert County Census PSA

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County Complete Count Committee Outreach Highlight: Howard County

HoCo Counts is the Howard County Complete Count Committee's outreach campaign for Census 2020. Among its initiatives for ensuring a complete and accurate count of its residents is the following:

  • Having HoCo Counts information mailers included in residents' utility bills
  • Working with the Howard County Food Bank and Columbia Community Cares to attach Census messaging at their food pantries and meal distribution sites. Columbia Community Cares is a grassroots group whose mission is to respond to the needs of members of the Columbia community who are struggling in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. 
  • Billboard Advertisements going up in North Laurel and Elkridge
  • Placing digital and print advertisements in the Baltimore Sun as well as the Columbia Villages newsletter
  • Increasing a social media presence on Facebook and Twitter 
  • Partnering with local businesses to display Census decals/signage in store front windows
  • Identifying hard to count populations working with our media relations department and used this data to set up phone banking stations where Census volunteers can call residents in these communities.

Visit Howard County's Census 2020 webpage

Howard County Outreach Highlight

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Howard County CCC's PSA: #HoCoCounts Important, Easy and Safe

View all partner videos on the Maryland Census 2020 Partner Videos page

#HoCoCounts Important, Easy and Safe

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Ensuring an Accurate Count of College Students and Towns in the 2020 Census

The U.S. Census Bureau is reaching out to colleges and universities with significant off-campus student populations to help ensure they are counted in the right place in the 2020 Census. Earlier this week, Director Dr. Steven Dillingham sent a letter to college and university presidents asking them to provide roster information for off-campus students. This information allows the Census Bureau to count the students where they would have been staying on April 1, 2020, even if they went home early due to a school closure or shift to distance learning.

Read Full Article at the U.S. Census Bureau

Ensuring an Accurate Count of College Students and Towns in the 2020 Census

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St. Mary's Public Schools Takes the Census Message to Elementary Students During Their End of School Pick Up

Adrianne Dillahunt of St. Mary’s County Schools visited the George Washington Carver and Lexington Park Carver Elementary Schools to deliver Census 1,000 flyers and promotional items to distribute to the students at the end of the year pick up.

St. Mary's Public Schools Takes the Census Message to Elementary Students During Their End of School Pick Up

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35 days till Census Day 2020.

Despite Coronavirus, Maryland’s Census Response Rate Is Higher Than Expected

With more people staying at home in recent months due to the coronavirus, the U.S. Census Bureau is finding the response rate to the 2020 census to be higher than anticipated. All of the area census offices in Maryland are now fully open as they continue to count the U.S. population in the midst of the pandemic and growing civil unrest, but the deadline to fill out the census has been pushed back to October 31 due to COVID-19. Despite that, it’s not all bad news for the Census Bureau.

Read Full Article at WJZ TV 13, CBS Baltimore

Despite Coronavirus, Maryland’s Census Response Rate Is Higher Than Expected

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Commissioners Recognize 2020 Census Benchmark for St. Mary’s County

The St. Mary's County Commissioners recognized their county's 2020 Census response rates with a proclamation during their business meeting, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Commissioner President Randy Guy stated, “St. Mary’s County has reached an important milestone in meeting and exceeding the 2010 final response rate with more than four months before the end of the 2020 census self-response phase.” He went on to encourage all St. Mary’s County citizens to complete their census forms “…it’s very important to the county.”

Read Full Article at the The Bay Net

Commissioners Recognize 2020 Census Benchmark for St. Mary’s County

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Shape the Future for the Next Generation

Let’s Get Everyone Counted

The results of the 2020 Census will inform decisions about the allocation of hundreds of billions of dollars each year to communities across the country. This includes funding and support for school services such as special education programs, free and reduced-price lunch, classroom technology, teacher training, after-school programs, and Head Start. Spread the word about the impact the 2020 Census has on our children and encourage everyone to respond.

2020 Census: Everyone Counts - Respond Now & Encourages Others

Meet Rodney, Shaping the Future of Education (video)

Meet Rodney, Shaping the Future of Education

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C. Burr Artz Library in Frederick Gets the Word Out to Patrons During Book Pick-Up

The Frederick County Complete Count Committee worked with the C. Burr Artz Public Library in the city to get bi-lingual Census 2020 postcards into the hands of residents. Book pick-up started recently in the county library system and when patrons pick up their checked out materials from C. Burr Artz, they will receive Census information with their books. C. Burr Artz staff placed a postcards in  the bags that will be used.

C. Burr Artz Library in Frederick Gets the Word Out to Patrons During Book Pick-Up

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VeggieTales Wants Everyone To Complete the 2020 Census

It’s critical for every child to be counted in the 2020 Census, given the count’s impact on funding for schools, health care services, food and housing assistance, and more in communities nationwide. That’s why we’re providing a fun, new way you can promote the count to adults with young children in their home: a video featuring children’s favorite VeggieTales characters! An estimated 1 million children under age 5 were not counted in the 2010 Census. You can help prevent this from happening again by sending a message to encourage your students’ parents and caregivers to watch the two-minute video with their kids at home, which can help motivate them to complete the census. Ask them to join Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, and their VeggieTales pals as they talk and sing about the 2020 Census and the importance of counting young children—and discover how often Larry thinks he should wash his socks.

View the VeggieTales Video

VeggieTales Wants Everyone To Complete the 2020 Census

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Salisbury-Wicomico CCC Takes Part in Unity Rally on the Lower Shore

The Salisbury-Wicomico Complete Count Committee was present at a Unity Rally in Salisbury at First Baptist Church, hosted by The Watchmen with One Voice Ministerial Alliance bringing together Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties as well as city law officials and more than 100 members of the community.

Salisbury-Wicomico CCC Takes Part in Unity Rally on the Lower Shore

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2020 Census Workers to Count Population Experiencing Homelessness in September

The U.S. Census Bureau has announced the new schedule for counting people experiencing homelessness in the 2020 Census. The operation was originally scheduled for March 30, March 31 and April 1, but health and safety concerns with COVID-19 forced us to delay these activities. Between September 22 and 24, the Census Bureau now plans to send specially trained census takers to count people at shelters, soup kitchens, regularly scheduled mobile food vans, and locations previously identified by the Census Bureau where people are known to sleep outdoors (like under bridges) and at all-night businesses (such as transit stations and 24-hour laundromats). People experiencing homelessness will be counted where they are staying when census takers visit between September 22-24.

Read Full Article at the Afro American

2020 Census Workers to Count Population Experiencing Homelessness in September

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Cost of Motherhood on Women s Employment and Earnings

When working women have children, they experience a permanent setback in their likelihood of working and a big but temporary drop in earnings. New U.S. Census Bureau research shows that the share of women who are working falls by 18 percentage points in the quarter they give birth to their first child.

Read Full Article at the U.S. Census Bureau

Cost of Motherhood on Women’s Employment and Earnings

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Census Bureau Completes Delivery of 2020 Census Materials to 96% of Households

Census workers have completed 96% of the 2020 Census “Update Leave” operation- where 2020 Census invitations and paper questionnaires are delivered to households in certain — often rural — areas across the country. In these areas, most households generally do not receive mail at their homes, so census workers drop off census materials in person. When the operation is complete, nearly every household nationwide will have received an invitation to participate in the 2020 Census either in the mail or from a census worker.

Read Full Article at the U.S. Census Bureau

Census Bureau Completes Delivery of 2020 Census Materials to 96% of Households

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Census Maryland 2020 Social Media

Social Media

Follow @MDCensus2020 on Facebook and Twitter

June 12: Congrats to Thurmont on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate!

June 12: Salisbury-Wicomico 2020 Census Page: Congratulations to Art Contest Winner Dayna Tyler, age 12 from Bennett Middle School! Her artwork address the topic: Why Census is Important/Why Does Census Matter and she has won a $100 gift card and rock paint kit!

June 14: Governor Larry Hogan Page: Today and every day, we salute the Star-Spangled Banner and the many freedoms it represents.

June 15: Congrats to Berwyn Heights on surpassing your 2010 Self Response Rate!

June 15: PG Census 2020 Page: Just 10 minutes of your time can allocate $18,250 per person to our community.

June 15: Congrats to Keedysville on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate!

June 16: Congrats to Hampstead on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate!

June 16: Salisbury-Wicomico 2020 Census Page: The CCC was present at the Unity Rally this evening. This event, at First Baptist Church of Salisbury, MD

June 16: Congrats to the Town of La Plata on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate!

June 17: Montgomery County, MD, 2020 Census: WHAT IS THE 2020 CENSUS? The U.S. Constitution mandates a count of every person living in the U.S. once, only once & in the right place every 10 years. Census data guides how over $675 BILLION is distributed to states & towns annually.

June 17: Maryland Department of Aging: Ensure your community receives federal funding for vaccines, emergency services, Medicare Part B health costs, Older American Act funded programs, and much more!

June 17: Allegany County Census 2020 Page: Every person who does not respond is jeopardizing ~$18,250 in funding coming into Allegany County.

June 17: Congrats to Manchester on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate!

June 17: Somerset County 2020 Census: "This is a family portrait that we take every 10 years. We need to show what Maryland looks like and we need EVERYONE in the picture" ~Secretary Robert S. McCord

June 17: PG Census 2020 Page: Just 10 minutes of your time can allocate $18,250 per person to our community. COMPLETE YOUR CENSUS TODAY AT https://my2020census.gov/

June 17: Salisbury-Wicomico 2020 Census Page: Check out this awesome quote from the Maryland Department of Planning Secretary about why it’s important to complete your census

June 17: Congrats to Colmar Manor on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate!

June 18: UMD Community Engagement @UMD_OCE: Make #CountMDin and #2020Census trend on social media by posting about the census on Monday, 6/22!

June 18: Congrats to Chesapeake Beach on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate!

June 18: Allegany County Census 2020 is at Downtown Cumberland Farmers Market.

June 18: Congrats Centreville on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate! Let's keep the momentum going!!

June 18: Shoutout to the Frederick County Public Library inserting fliers and materials into the book pick-ups that recently started!

June 19: Congrats to the Town of Galena, Maryland on surpassing your 2010 Self-Response Rate! Let's keep the momentum going!!

June 19: Shoutout to Adrianne Dillahunt of St. Mary's County Public Schools who was able to deliver 1,000 flyers to George Washington Carver and Lexington Park Carver Elementary Schools along with swag to give to the students for the end of the year pick up.

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