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What is a Complete Count Committee? A Complete Count Committee (CCC) is a volunteer committee established by tribal, state, and local governments, and/or community leaders, to increase awareness about the census and motivate residents in the community to respond. Why form a Complete Count Committee? A Complete Count Committee should be formed to: • Increase the response rate for residents mailing back their questionnaire through a focused structured, neighbor-to-neighbor programs. • Utilize the local knowledge, expertise, and influence of each Complete Count Committee member to design and implement a census awareness campaign targeted to the community. • Bring together a cross section of community members whose focus is 2010 Census awareness. The CCC speaks the language of its community, therefore establishing an information highway that even the intemet cannot rival-neighbor informing neighbor. What is the charge of a Complete Count Committee The CCC is charged with developing and implementing a plan designed to target the unique characteristics of their community. The team members should implement a creative outreach campaign in areas that may pose a challenge in 2010. Who should be on the Complete Count Committee The committees work best when they include a cross section of community representatives from government agencies, education, business, religious organizations, and the media, remembering to include respected representatives of Hard-To-Count populations What are some Examples of Complete Count Committee Activities • Set clear, achievable goals and objectives • Identify areas of the community that you want to target, either geographical area or population group that might be hard to count. • Create ways to dispel myths and alleviate fears about the privacy of census data. • Have census intormation available during voter registration drives. • Place census messages in water bills, property tax bills, and ather correspondence generated by the jurisdiction.