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Every year, whether due to work, living, study or other circumstances, hundreds of millions of people around the world spend time apart from the children they love: sometimes for days; sometimes for weeks; sometimes for much longer.

Whatever the circumstances, being apart happens. And when it does, individuals and families often find themselves asking the same heart-wrenching question: how can we maintain and strengthen healthy loving connections (or ‘stay connected’) with the children we love when we’re apart?

If you’re a business or other organization, then you know the facts: helping your travelling or deployed personnel stay connected with the children they love when they’re apart is critical to the success of any employee wellness and/or wellbeing initiative, to the business objective, the mission or the trip and, therefore, to overall organisational performance. But what can you do to reap the benefits?

Through an innovative, end-to-end, ‘idea-to-implementation’ platform for collaborative consumption and on the basis of its unique APART Model, which brings together research and personal experience (including from the ConnectedApart community), ConnectedApart helps you to answer these questions.

Individuals and families 
Simply pick some ideas from ConnectedApart’s free products and services to suit your own unique experience of being apart – and stay connected with the children you love in your own special way. ConnectedApart’s free products and services include:

• ConnectedApart.com;
• The ConnectedApart blog;
• The ConnectedApart community – on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and/or Twitter; and
• The ConnectedApart ‘idea-letter‘, delivered once a week, directly to your inbox.

Additionally, ConnectedApart’s ‘idea-to-action’ approach, streamlined throughout its free products and services, helps you to focus on what’s really important: i.e. staying connected with the children you love when you’re apart, as opposed to spending hours searching the internet for ideas, as well as for ‘things’ to put your ideas into action. So, sometimes, ideas described in ConnectedApart’s free products and services might include referrals to products and/or services from a third-party source, which could prove useful in the idea’s effective implementation. In this way, ConnectedApart provides you with more than ‘just’ ideas; it provides you with solutions. For more information, please refer to ConnectedApart’s Affiliate Disclosure.

Finally, ConnectedApart is designed to be collaborative. As a platform for collaborative consumption, your thoughts, questions and ideas will help ConnectedApart to refine its content and, in so doing, to generate a better service for you – and for others like you. So, join the ConnectedApart community to consume, create and benefit!

Businesses or Other Organizations:
On the basis of ConnectedApart’s unique APART Model, ConnectedApart can help you to develop simple, yet effective solutions specifically for your workforce, either to strengthen an existing employee wellness and/or wellbeing initiative or as a standalone offering. Visit ConnectedApart’s Business Center to benefit from a range of research and reference materials. To discuss solutions, simply contact ConnectedApart’s founder, Jared Rigg, at contact@connectedapart.com. 

A Message from ConnectedApart’s Founder: Jared Rigg
Welcome to ConnectedApart! This is a personal blog, which I founded to help others stay connected with the children they love when they’re apart.

I’ve spent over half my life away from the children I love, including as a management consultant travelling the globe and, later, as an officer with the United Nations supporting conflict-affected countries around the world. Through these experiences, I’ve experienced both the joy and the heartache of trying to stay connected with the children I love when apart.

I am not a doctor, psychologist, counsellor or any other type of health care professional, nor do I have training in these areas. I’m just an everyday dad who’s spent far too much time away from the children he loves; and a person, who wants to share with others what he’s learned along the way. I hope you find something at ConnectedApart to help you stay connected with the children you love. 

Learn more about my journey to ConnectedApart.

Featured image by Tim Gouw on Unsplash; Image of Jared Rigg by Thorodd Ommundsen