For our outreach project, we chose to work with the Van Nuys area of the San Fernando Valley, focusing on youth census education and engagement. Census tracts in the Van Nuys area are considered hard to count due to crowded units, multi-unit structures, foreign-born populations, and limited English-speaking households. Aiming to increase census counts in the region, we visited high schools in the Van Nuys area. We educated classes about the importance of the census and encouraged them to participate. During our visits, we provided these high schoolers with a presentation and flyers so that they could take this information home to their parents or guardians. We recognize that information about the census rarely reaches non-English speaking and foreign-born communities, and we hope that our high school outreach campaign helps to increase census participation.

According to the Census 2020 website, Census tracts in the Van Nuys area are considered hard to count. The leading variables correlated with this area's hard to count index are crowded units, multi-unit structures, foreign-born populations, and limited English-speaking households. Van Nuys has a high population density with some places having over 15,000 people per square mile. Van Nuys also has a relatively high Hispanic or Latino population. In many areas of Van Nuys, over 50% of the population is Hispanic or Latino. We visited two high schools in the area, Panorama High School represented by the purple dot, and CHAMPS Charter High School of Arts represented by the red dot.