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Featured Partner

Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc.

Census Contact:
Helen Kim, Director of Advocacy and Education
770.936.0969, ext. 44; helen.kim@cpacs.org
www.wecountgeorgia.org

Organizational Background:
The Center for Pan-Asian Community Services is the first, largest and longest-standing service-providing agency focused on Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) in the South.  CPACS, now in its 30th year, is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to create and deliver linguistically and culturally competent health, social, legal and other services to immigrants, refugees, and racial-ethnic minorities at low to no-cost.  CPACS is also nationally recognized as the leader for API research and policy work in the Southeast, and serves as a central referral and network source for national groups and local grass-roots organizations.

Census 2010 Highlights

• CPACS’ 5th Annual Together Empowering Asian Americans (TEA) Walk - Census 2010 was the theme of the most recent Walk.  There were over 1, 200 participants, which was a 70% increase from the previous year’s walk and reflective of the high growth of the Pan-Asian community in Georgia.  Not only did CPACS distributed approximately 2,000 Census promotional and informational materials, they also created and streamed a TEA Walk Video that highlights their theme “We Count” for Census 2010 (http://tiny.cc/teawalk).  
• CPACS also spearheaded the creation of, and currently chairs, the Asian Complete Count Committee of Georgia (ACCC) (www.wecountgeorgia.org), which was formed to ensure the most accurate Asian count in Georgia’s history for Census 2010.  Their goal is to get every single Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Asian immigrant, or refugee person (“Asian”) counted in Georgia, regardless of age, income-level, legal status, religious or political affiliation.  Particularly in the past ten years since the last Census, thousands of Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) are making Georgia their new home.  Georgia now has the second fastest growing API population in the United States.  The ACCC coordinates 15 ethnic subcommittees to ensure coverage for the diverse community in Georgia, including subcommittees for Afghani, Bhutanese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, South Asian, Thai, and Vietnamese communities.
• CPACS also serves as a Census job testing site, Be Counted Center and Question Assistance Center.  CPACS is currently focusing on promoting Census through their 27 distinct programs and to the approximately 1,600 clients that come for help every month.  CPACS plans on organizing language-appropriate assistance forums to help their clients complete their Census forms in March and train grassroots partners to host assistance forums for their community members.

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