Making Connections Resources
TARC Guides
The following guides are part of a series from the Casey Foundation's Technical Assistance Resource Center (TARC), created to assist Making Connections teams. Each guide presents key ideas, effective approaches, and technical assistance resources for critical issues being addressed in the sites.
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 Reentry: Helping Former Prisoners Return to Communities
This report is part of the extensive series of TARC guides published primarily for use in Making Connections communities, but it's full of strategies and resources for any community. This new guide offers site teams and local partners a way to think about and reduce the negative impact of incarceration on their communities.
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Making Connections Guides
The Making Connections guides offer emerging lessons and best practices from the initiative’s core strategies to increase family income, assets, and success in early grades, as well as promote strong resident leadership, civic participation, social networks and community mobilization.
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 Connecting People to Jobs: Neighborhood Workforce Pipelines
The first publication in this series describes the Casey Foundation’s efforts to develop a new approach to connecting the dots between people living in low income neighborhoods and jobs that provide health benefits and career advancement. The Neighborhood Pipeline joins residents, schools, community organizations, employers, workforce agencies, and elected officials to connect families to jobs. Stories from Seattle /White Center, San Antonio, and Louisville show how pipelines work. Also see the brochure.
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TARC Peer Match Reports
A Peer Match brings together colleagues from different locales or jurisdictions to exchange practical knowledge and produce solutions to shared challenges.Casey believes that the people best able to provide hands-on help are the "doers" themselves -- people from states and communities who have successfully addressed a problem or created a strategy that works. These are the reports from some Making Connections Peer Matches:
Social Networks
Social Networks studies the human interactions that influence our daily decisions and our lives. Part of the Making Connections core approach, this series of five reports looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.
Diarist Project
The
Diarist Project is an approach being used by the Casey Foundation to learn from its work to strengthen families and transform struggling neighborhoods by sharing the stories and reflections of the leaders and residents who are involved in
Making Connections.