Registration Fee	Annual Budget
Register for $50	ALL
Center Associates receive a 10% discount

PLEASE NOTE:  Maximum of 12 participants per session.

Course Description
This hands-on workshop teaches participants to navigate the census and other websites to find information about their communities, including demographic, economic, social health, and housing data. Data can be downloaded and presented in a clear and meaningful format for the purposes of grantwriting, community education, program design, strategic planning, and policy advocacy. Participants will learn how to create simple maps from web-based resources. Experts will be available to help participants create a profile of their community at the end of the session.

Instructors' Bios
Eric C. Wat is the data manager of Special Service for Groups (SSG), a Census Information Center designed by the U.S. Census Bureau. Eric oversees research and evaluation at SSG, manages community-based research projects, and provides training and technical assistance to SSG programs and other nonprofit organizations. Eric is expert in using research for program design and strategic planning. He teaches regularly at UCLA and CSU Long Beach.

Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca is the Assistant Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Managing Editor of AAPI Nexus, a nationwide journal focusing on Asian American & Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice, and Community issues. She has authored numerous articles on Asian Pacific American demographics, community and economic development, affordable housing and homeownership, small business development, and educational issues.

Dan Ichinose is Director of the Demographic Research Project (DRP) at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC), the nation's largest legal organization serving Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.  He oversees APALC's Census Information Center (CIC) and is lead researcher on several projects, including a recent study of limited-English proficient populations across California's State Assembly, State Senate, and Congressional districts and ongoing studies of AAPI political participation.  From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Ichinose worked closely with activists throughout California to construct the AAPI community's first statewide redistricting proposal and testified before the California State Assembly's Committee on Elections, Reapportionment, and Constitutional Amendments.  He holds a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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