State: CA
On the second day of the 2019 national internship conference at Santa Clara University, the panel discussion in the leaders’ program was about the Setting Up A Well-Organized Internship Program. The panel was moderated by, the APALI Executive Director, Dr. Michael Chang; meanwhile, three speakers from different organizations shared their experiences on how they organized their internship programs. Furthermore, Dr. Michael Chang also shared/introduced some software tools and platforms information to help those leaders minimized their heavy working load.
Moderator: Dr. Michael Chang
Speakers: Hong Qiu, Anna Chen and Caroline Villarrea
During the 2019 national internship conference, three of the coordinators of CLUSA gave a speech to local community leaders about how they hold graduation events and build up alumni networks.
One purpose of the graduation celebration, as Lynn Trinh mentioned, is to demonstrate the capability and talents of CLUSA’s young interns to the community leaders, and seek for a long-term partnership with them. “I don’t need to say a word,” Maxwell Trinh said. “Through the discussion panel, (the community leaders) can easily see the growth of our young interns and realize the contribution we’re making to our next generation.” Furthermore, Zihang Wang said that the training program helps bond interns and trainers together as friends, and this relationship established, along with the fun they had with the CLUSA training program, motivated them to come back as volunteers or alumni.
Moderator: Dr. Michael Chang
Speakers: Lynn Trinh, Maxwell Trinh and Zihang Wang
Interns Training in 2019 National Leadership Conference
AAPI issues in their groups
Summit Event: AAPI & Census 2020 Complete Count, 1:20 pm
- Moderator: Edwin Tan, AACI Director of Advocacy & Development
- Nick Kuwada, Manager, Office of the Census, Santa Clara County
- Anne Im, Immigration Program Officer, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Kelly Batson, Senior Vice President, Community Impact, United Way Bay Area
- Discussant: Karthick Ramakrishnan, Director, Center for Social Innovation
The panel discussion focused on the following subjects:
Why does the Census Matter?
Funding:
- $ 675 distributed annually
- California’s share $ 76 billions
- Funding is distributed based on Census
Political Power:
- Congressional representation
- Reapportionment and redistricting
- 1990 undercounted cost a California Congressional seat
What are some of the barriers to an accurate count?
- Citizenship question may be intimidating
- Language barrier
- Multiple families live under one roof
- Not enough ethnic volunteers, community outreach persons, paid staff
- Undocumented status
- Distrust of immigration enforcement
- Cultural barriers
- The census will be taken online which could be a barrier to participants who are less computer literate.
What actions are being taken?
- Santa Clara County established the Office of Census with a website to inform and to make sure that our communities are not undercounted.
- United Way is hiring staff and giving grants to ensure the 2020 census is taken correctly.
- SVCF (Silicon Valley Community Foundation) is engaging in advocacy and grant-making to Bay Area nonprofits as part of the Bay Area Census Funders Collaborative.
- All the participating organization has websites where you can find more information.
- AAPI Data has many sources of census information as it relates to Asian Americans on their website.
