Increasing Awareness and Understanding

The site team of the Making Connections in Hartford places special emphasis on communications. Our communications goal is to increase community-wide awareness, understanding and acceptance of the facts, issues, themes, and values relevant to the Making Connections work. We also hope to motivate people to support the Making Connections work conducted by our partners and to become actively engaged in it.

To try to accomplish our goals we support coverage in the media that conveys information about the problems and solutions affecting low-income families such as finding family-sustaining work, saving for a better future, helping children succeed in school, and connecting to support services and positive social networks. Perhaps most noteworthy of our work with the media is the partnership we’ve developed with Connecticut Public Broadcasting (CPTV and CPR).

Over the part few years, we have partnered with the CPTV and CPR to provide the public with insightful information on the topics of former prisoners re-entering the community, the hurdles low-income families face in trying to move up the economic ladder, and the importance of early childhood education. You can view the recent documentary and town hall meeting on early childhood education that CPTV produced with Making Connections' support.

Besides communicating through the media, we also produce an electronic newsletter issue each month called MCH Update. It generally covers a single topic concerning a human services program, practice or policy of interest to people involved in the Making Connections work. MCH Update also circulates news flashes on an as-needed basis. To obtain back issues of MCH Update or of the periodic printed newsletter of Making Connections, please contact mikewsal@aol.com