By Zaidee Stavely, EdSource, April 15, 2020
As thousands of California residents stay home in response to the coronavirus pandemic, children’s advocates, preschool teachers and social workers have had to get creative to make sure everyone gets counted in the census.
“Now that we’re in shelter-in-place, we have really had to pivot,” said Ditas Katague, director of the California Complete Count — Census 2020 office, which was set up to lead outreach efforts in the state.
Katague said with the shelter-in-place order, census outreach has to be both high-tech — with text messaging and social media campaigns — and low-tech, with flyers and signs in places where people still have to go. “People aren’t congregating in places, but they have to go to convenience stores. They have to go to pharmacies and grocery stores.”
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