and institutions are certainly crucial improving the overall response is largely dependent on the work being done in the trenches in small communities and neighborhoods across america by forming partnerships with local governments civic groups and religious institutions and cultural organizations better able to navigate the social and physical landscape of individual neighborhoods throughout the united states these partnerships known as complete committees are comprised of local individuals with strong community standing who are best equipped to reach out to everyone in their area and make sure they counted by the bureau or community is different from one another the same cookie cutter approach to ensure a full count of the city's residents all of has expanded on knowing that the population we serve is especially hard to count and at the same time especially in need of the services and resources that will result from an accurate count many latino families share homes or apartments and not all be identified as residing in the shared dwelling in addition they are also more likely to move from place to place and have short term living arrangements most are low income have little formal education many have government based on experiences from their home country starting with r f y o nine performance plan the office included partnering with the u s census bureau as a key initiative by staff and began communicating and working with the washington d census representatives in the fall of two thousand and eight and since then have collaborated in several ways we've worked with the census to help reach out to potential d c latino census workers we hosted an employment training and employment test in our office as the location  community knows well and is comfortable with we have this additional meaning some workshops with the office are now in the community as well and the senses of partners have presented at several majority latino resident apartment buildings to tenant groups about congregations our staff member in charge of educational outreach will focus a majority of her time for the next few months leading up to april one on educating latino parents english as a second language teachers and counselors and setting up complete counsel mitty's and latino schools and communicating is culturally and linguistically appropriate materials outreach must be done using culturally and linguistically appropriate messages simple translations of materials will not suffice information must be developed specifically for the community specially targeting the education levels and particularly particular situation for the community with the financial assistance of the census we created our own materials in this manner and they are now the center of our presentations and sense of we have been holding a community center clinic schools homeless service providers street corners where men wait for work to better off both the materials and the presentations focus on a few key items beyond the forms another essential information which is key to our community the fact that this information will not be shared with any other agency under penalty of fine and potential incarceration of work for the importance of the community services they currently utilize being adequately funded should an accurate count be done and then points of taking action through the simple to have been at question there we've also stress that this is an opportunity to stand up and be recognized in their new country and they are that they are just as deserving to be counted and served by the new government by their new government as any other d c united states resident as partners all in the census have been able to better reach the community and more effectively deliver the message of the