What Is Connect And Join™?

Connect And Join™ is a secure online communications and activities site that connects families around the world who are separated by military deployment while serving our country, or have family members living away from home due to job-related responsibilities.

Essentially, family and friends at home build and maintain the family password-protected website, creating a daily digital scrapbook of "life at home" for the deployed loved one.  Connect And Join™ is easy to use with templates and fill-in-the-blank forms.

With Connect And Join™ you can:

• write e-letters
• build and keep a photo gallery, including children’s hand drawn art
• keep a calendar, write in events and journal special moments
• choose from computer and non-computer based arts and crafts, and make and mail projects for family and group activities (some align with national school standards) 
• find books to read for children and teens 
• save and archive all content for journals or scrapbooks to preserve family history
• record and share audio journals
• find answers to questions on how to use a computer in the Merlin help files

Connect And Join™ provides up to 5 access codes per password-protected family site, with one Family Editor overseeing the content.  There are no public areas, advertising or pop-ups where the family builds their "Life at Home.”

Connect And Join™ is "Life at Home" recreated online for those away!