The booklet examines the development of connections with the community, potential obstacles, models for community corrections facilities, and steps to bring them into being. The booklet emphasizes that community corrections practitioners cannot do what is expected of them without the understanding, support, and involvement of the public. Community collaboration may involve businesses, social service agencies, individuals, and restorative justice panels working together with county commissioners to urge support for local programs, contributing clothes for offenders to wear to job interviews, training law enforcement and probation officers in how best to deal with mentally ill and women offenders, and working with the courts to decide appropriate dispositions of court-referred cases and then tracking progress until the sentence is completed and the offender has returned to the community. The booklet discusses strategies in establishing community corrections, the potential constituency, and critical elements in successful connections with the community. Resources