Local & State Groups
Support groups offer a way for those interested in homeschooling or new to home education to get information and support. They also offer opportunities for social activities, group learning, and networking. Find a support group near you in Georgia.
Resources
Not Back to School Camp
Not Back to School Camp is a non-denominational, non-religious homeschool camp. The camp offers workshops, spontaneous events, and special evening gatherings, bringing together campers who are excited about life and willing to be themselves and to reach out and connect with the others.
Local & State Support Groups
H.E.R.I.T.A.G.E. - Home Educators Rightly Integrated Together Administering Godly Education
H.E.R.I.T.A.G.E. Homeschooler's website. Based out of Atlanta, Georgia, they are a Christian homeschool support group geared toward African-American families. This site is a forum for use within their group as well as a resource for minority families looking for information on homeschooling or simply needing support in their endeavors in home education.
Valdosta Area Homeschooling Association (VAHA)
The Valdosta Area Homeschooling Association (VAHA) is a Christian support group for homeschooling families and those interested in home education in the South Georgia/North Florida area.
Catholic Home Alliance of North Georgia Educators (CHANGE)
CHANGE supports Roman Catholic families who embrace home education and families whose primary educational mode may be either public or private school and who want support in supplementing the teaching of the Faith. Offers activities, a newsletter, information, and more.
Family Education For Christ (FEFC)
Family Education For Christ (FEFC) is a Christian support group that provides educational and social experiences for homeschooling families. Activities available to members include Boy Scouts, 4-H, high school activities, a curriculum fair, field day, science fair, and more.
Greater Rome Area Christian Educators (GRACE)
GRACE provides Christian fellowship, support, field trips and activities for home school families in Rome, GA and surrounding areas. With activities throughout the school year, they welcome new members to participate in field trips, park days and group activities.
Collegedale Area Homeschoolers (CAH)
CAH is a Christian organization that seeks to meet the needs of homeschoolers in Collegedale, Ooltewah, East Brainerd, and North Georgia.
Vidalia Area Christian Home Educators Association
Vidalia Area Christian Home Educators Association serves homeschooling families in the Vidalia area, offering field trips, social activities, a newsletter, and more.
North West Georgia Homeschoolers Group
Northwest Georgia Homeschoolers is a support group for home educating families in this area. Offers support, activities, a newsletter, special events, and more.
ForsythPEACE
Forsyth PEACE is a group of Christian home educators in and around Forsyth County, Georgia. This email list offers support, discussion, exchange of ideas, field trips, get-togethers, and clubs.
Creative Homeschoolers of Georgia - Southeast
Creative Homeschoolers of Georgia - Southeast is a casual, inclusive homeschool support group serving Rockdale, Newton, Henry, Gwinnett, and surrounding counties. They offer play dates, monthly parents night out, field trips, and more.
Creative Homeschoolers of Georgia - Northwest
Creative Homeschoolers of Georgia is an inclusive support group serving Bartow, Gordon, Walker, Floyd, and surrounding counties.
Homeward Spirit Home Educators
Homeward Spirit Home Educators (HSHE) is a Christian oriented support group that welcomes anyone interested in sharing the homeschool experience. Families are from Whitfield and Murray counties, but also from several other NW Georgia counties as well. They offer parent meetings, group picnics and activities, field trips, and information about community and homeschooling activities, plus support and fellowship.
Georgia Home Education Association (GHEA)
Georgia Home Education Association (GHEA) is a Christian organization that serves and assists any home schooling family or support group in Georgia.
Georgia Unschoolers
Georgia Unschoolers is an inclusive support group for families unschooling in Georgia (child-led learning as a part of life).
Georgia Homeschool Network
This Facebook group offers a place where homeschool families can come together and stay up-to-day on what's going on in the homeschool world in Georgia.
LIGHT Homeschool Support Group
Leaders in Godly Home Teachings (LIGHT) is a Christian organization located in the Columbus Ga, area and are reaching out to touch the surrounding community with encouragement, prayerful support, and communcation among all homeschooling families. They provide information on education techniques and curriculum, coordination of group activities and monitoring of legislation related to homeschooling.
The Drinking Gourd
The Drinking Gourd is a group located in the Macon and Middle Georgia area for home-schooling and un-schooling families, and home-based educators in the Macon and Middle Georgia area. It is also open to non-home-schoolers and people of all backgrounds who are interested in teaching their children in a more culturally diverse manner.
Villa Rica Home School Group
The Villa Rica Home School Group is a support group serving home school families throughout Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, and Paulding counties in Georgia. Offers parents' support meeting, monthly activities, holiday events, field trips, and more.
Hall County Home Educators (HCHE)
Hall County Home Educators is a homeschooling support group located in Northeast Georgia. Offers a resource library, clubs, events, contests, field trips, classes, and testing opportunities.
Home Education Information Resource (HEIR)
A non-partisan, non-sectarian, volunteer-only organization working to ensure that the people of Georgia and their government recognize home study, freely practiced in its diverse forms, as a legitimate choice and value it as a positive force for improving the quality of education.
Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends offers support for home educators in Douglas County, Georgia, and the surrounding area. They offer field trips, gym days, monthly service projects, park days, moms' night out, and more.
West Metro Home Educators
West Metro Home Educators is an all-inclusive group of home educating families from the Douglas, Paulding and South Cobb, Carroll, and South West Fulton County areas. The purpose of the group is to offer activities and share resources to enhance and support the home educating experience. They are open to all home educators, new and experienced.
amie network
The amie network is for Christian homeschooled teenage girls. Members of the amie network receive a monthly newsletter, have opportunities to meet and connect with other homeschooled teens, and receive support and encouragement.
Catoosa Home Education Association (CHEA)
Catoosa Home Education Association, located in Northwest Georgia, is an Christian organization of almost 100 homeschool families. Membership includes families from Catoosa, Walker, Dade and Whitfield counties in Georgia as well as quite a number of families from Tennessee in the Chattanooga metro area. They offer group support to homeschool families in the geographic region through classes, field trips, family meetings, clubs, and friendships, and monitor Georgia and Tennessee legislation that affects homeschoolers.
PEARL Home Educators
Parents Educating Achievers in Righteousness and Leadership (PEARL) is a Christian homeschool support group in the general Rockdale/ Newton/ Henry County area of Georgia.
Holy Family TORCH of North Atlanta
The Holy Family TORCH chapter of North Atlanta was formed to bring the principles and practices of the established national organization to families in the North Atlanta area. TORCH supports the families of the North Atlanta area as they seek to more fully integrate the Catholic faith into their lives through such activities as First Friday Masses, Little Flowers groups, Blue Knights groups, home school co-ops, family feast celebrations, service projects, field trips, and other youth formation exercises. Presently, most of the group activities are being held at St. Benedict's Parish in Duluth, GA.
Local & State Online Groups
Charlotte Mason Support Group for NW GA
This group was established to provide information and offer support for all new and veteran home educators that have adopted a Charlotte Mason approach. Currently they serve members from Bartow, Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas and Paulding county. This group was founded so that all homeschoolers in the area can offer support and share how CM methods are being applied in whatever teaching approach they are currently using in their own family's home education system.
GAChristianHschooler
Christian homeschooling email list for home educators in Georgia.
Homeschool-Georgia
This list is for the discussion of topics related to homeschooling in Georgia. Posting of events, homeschool support organization information,and homeschool websites is welcome.
North West Georgia Homeschoolers Group
Northwest Georgia Homeschoolers is a support group for home educating families in this area. Offers support, activities, a newsletter, special events, and more.
Georgiahomeschoolers
Georgiahomeschoolers is a diverse group of people from all over the state who either homeschool in Georgia or want to homeschool in Georgia. Offers information and resources, listings of events, field trip information, homeschooling and curriculum information, and other support.
LIGHT Support Group Email List
LIGHT is a Christian organization offering support and activities to homeschooling families. This is the email list for that group.
Valdosta Homeschoolers
This list for VAHA members and other Valdosta area (South Georgia/North Florida) homeschoolers to receive VAHA updates and other homeschool info, as well as communicate with each other for helpful homeschool related ideas, tips and information.
A Few Moms and Their Kids
A Few Moms and Their Kids is a group of homeschooling moms in the Northwest Georgia area (Paulding, Cobb, and the surrounding areas) who are joining together to offer field trips and educational outings for their children.
HEIR Updates
HEIR Updates is an announcement list for Home Education Information Resource (HEIR), a non-partisan, non-sectarian, volunteer-only organization working to ensure that the people of Georgia and their government recognize home study, freely practiced in its diverse forms, as a legitimate choice and value it as a positive force for improving the quality of education.
Homeschool Friends of Roswell
Homeschool Friends of Roswell is a homeschool support group that started off serving Roswell, Georgia, but has grown to support all of Cobb, Fulton and Cherokee counties in Georgia. The purpose of this group is to serve in an advisory manner and to post homeschool events and happenings to benefit other likewise homeschooling parents and their children.
Homeschoolers Offering Music Education (HOME)
Homeschoolers Offering Music Education (HOME) is a Christian homeschool music program for the southside of Atlanta and surrounding areas. Offers several programs including but not limited to Advanced Concert Band, Intermediate Concert Band, Beginning Band, and Stage Band.
Northeast Georgia Home Educators
This is a group site dedicated to the homeschooling families of Northeast Georgia. It offers a free open forum for families to communicate with each other, giving each other curriculum or teaching advice, opportunities for trading used curriculum, notices of events in the area that may be of interest to homeschoolers, and support.
Georgia Charlotte Mason (GACM)
This list is to offer information and support to home educators who use the Charlotte Mason method in Georgia.
First Baptist Atlanta Homeschool
This is a list for members and friends of First Baptist Atlanta who are currently homeschooling, or are considering homeschooling.
Americus Homeschool
This list is intended for homeschoolers in the Americus, Georgia, area.
Henry & Clayton Home Educators (HCHE)
HCHE is a non-sectarian homeschool support group serving Henry, Clayton, and surrounding counties in Georgia. This group is established to allow communication among members regarding HCHE Events, homeschool issues, homeschool opportunities and items of interest to the homeschool community.
Georgiahomeschool
This is a mailing list for people who home schooling or are thinking of homeschooling in Georgia, kids and parents alike. Here you can exchange ideas, support each other, and share resources and information.
ScratchNDent - Buy/Sell/Swap in GA
Georgia list intented to facilitate the selling and buying of used homeschooling curriculum in the stateof Georgia.
Art at Work Homeschoolers-North Georgia
Art at Work Homeschoolers-North Georgia is a Christian support group for homeschooling families in North Georgia. Offers homeschool and curriculum ideas, items for sale, field trips, and more.
Homeschool's Cool
This is an online discussion group for members of the Vidalia Area Christian Home Educators Association.
Home-Schooling the Only Child
Homeschooling an only child can be quite challenging at times. This group is open to anyone for support, enrouragement and ideas for those who choose the home-schooling road for you and your child. Although they are based in NC, anyone can join for support. They have a database that you can access to see who is in your state to get together with.
Secular Homeschoolers of Georgia
YahooGroup for homeschoolers who are homeschooling in Georgia for secular reasons.
Savannah Home Education
Savannah Home Education support groups offers homeschooling families in Savannah and the Chatham County area a chance to connect with each other.
CM Families of the South
The purpose of this loop is to encourage homeschooling families living in the Southern states who are trying to incorporate the philosophy of Charlotte Mason in their homes in their efforts to raise their children with an enthusiasm for learning.
HEIR Talk
HEIR Talk is a non-partisan, non-sectarian, discussion list for working to ensure that the people of Georgia and their government recognize home study, freely practiced in its diverse forms, as a legitimate choice and value it as a positive force for improving the quality of education.
ForsythPEACE
Forsyth PEACE is a group of Christian home educators in and around Forsyth County, Georgia. This email list offers support, discussion, exchange of ideas, field trips, get-togethers, and clubs.
Georgia Unschoolers
Georgia Unschoolers is an inclusive support group for families unschooling in Georgia (child-led learning as a part of life).
Villa Rica Home School Group
The Villa Rica Home School Group is a support group serving home school families throughout Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, and Paulding counties in Georgia. Offers parents' support meeting, monthly activities, holiday events, field trips, and more.
Hall County Home Educators (HCHE)
Hall County Home Educators is a homeschooling support group located in Northeast Georgia. Offers a resource library, clubs, events, contests, field trips, classes, and testing opportunities.
National Forums
Single Parent Homeschoolers Forum at vegsource.com
This is a message forum at vegsource.com especially for single parents who are home educating their children.
Special Needs Homeschooling Forum at vegsource.com
A message board for parents who are homeschooling special needs children.
Encouragement Forum at vegsource.com
If you are feeling burned out or need encouragement, this forum is for you. Share your struggles and get help, ideas, and support from those who have walked in your shoes.
Secular Homeschooling Forum at vegsource.com
A message board at vegsource.com for those who homeschool for non-religious reasons.
Charlotte Mason Forum at vegsource.com
Discuss Charlotte Mason's ideas and find new way to implement those ideas at the forum sponsored by vegsource.com.
Black Homeschoolers' Network
Black Homeschoolers' Network is intended to facilitate a network among African American homeschoolers across the country. Here you will also find a message board for general communication as well as an email pal listing for homeschooled kids.
Unschooling.Info Forum
This message board is designed for unschooling parents to connect, ask questions, share information and ideas, and get support.
Homeschool Christian Working Homeschooling Parent Message Board
Whether you work part-time or full-time, this board is to support you! It's not easy being a breadwinner and a homeschooling parent. You can find the encouragement you need right here.
Community Homeschooling Forum at vegsource.com
This is a general message forum at vegsource.com designed to discuss all general homeschooling topics.
Homeschool Christian Solo Homeschooling Parents Message Board
This message board is designed for single homeschooling parents to support each other and get ideas and information on homeschooling as a solo parent.
National Online Groups
Christian Unschooling
Christians can and do unschool. Here you'll find support and more.
Shining Children with Radical Unschooling
This list is a forum for those either radically unschooling or learning how to radically unschool to discuss our "shining" children (Highly Sensitive, Out of Sync, Asperger’s traits, Explosive) and all the issues that accompany life with them--how we grow and learn ourselves thanks to our non-typical children and how unschooling frees their spirits and allows them to truly "shine."
Homeschooling Your One And Only
This group is for parents who are currently (or are considering) homeschooling their only child.
Unschoolers Online Community
This is a companion list to the website UnSchoolers Online. It is a safe place to openly discuss anything related to unschooling and our children.
African-American Unschool Teens
African-American Teens who unschool/homeschool: Come hear how others live exciting, creative lives outside of traditional schooling. This is a free and comfortable space for teens to call their own.
Single Parent Homeschoolers
This is a list for single parents homeschooling their children. The purpose of this list is to support single parents.
Catholic Charlotte Mason
Online support group for Catholics interested in the Charlotte Mason method.
Catholic Homemaking and Homeschooling
This discussion group/email list is focused on the rich Catholic heritage and how to incorporate the Liturgical year into your daily life as a homeschooling family.
Unschooling Discussion
Large traffic email list whose stated purpose is to move out of comfort zones and critically examine beliefs, ideas, and viewpoints about learning, and seek a deeper understanding of unschooling and more respectful relationships with one's children.
Magnum Opus
Raising a large, Catholic, homeschooling family is a great work (Magnum Opus) and a great deal of work!
Hopefully this email discussion group will be a place for parents of four or more to help each other with the nitty-gritty details of raising and educating a large, Catholic family.
Teach Art at Home
A monthly newsletter that delivers free art projects and lessons that are contained on www.teachartathome.com - the home of Masterpiece Art Instruction. Join the group and be the first to receive the new projects every month along with drawing lessons and fun ideas for using art to teach other subjects such as history and science.
Pregnant Again
Are you pregnant? Do you have a large family? Do people look at you like you're crazy? This is a list for all of you out there who are pregnant again for the third or more time. This is a supportive list wehre people believe that large families are wonderful.
Families of Color Utilizing Home Schooling (FOCUHS)
This list is for Christian families of color who've opted to home educate their children. They exist to offer support, fellowship and to share resources with other African American and bi-racial Christian homeschooling families.
Single Parents and Homeschooling
A single mom started this email group to provide a means of sharing the unique problems and solutions a single, working parent faces in their homeschooling pursuits.
Mother of Divine Grace Families
This list is for families using the classical approach to education as outlined in Laura Berquist's independent study program, Mother of Divine Grace (MODG), and in her book Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum (DYOCC). The discussions on this loop primarily revolve around the implementation and use of resources which are recommended in the MODG syllabi and in DYOCC. Additionally, they always welcome conversations about the classical methodology of MODG/DYOCC.
Unschooling Families
This list is a friendly place for all to chat about anything you wish to explore. Parenting issues, schooling issues, political issues . . . as unschoolers, we know that nothing is off topic.
Waldorf at Home
This email list is open to all homeschoolers working with Waldorf education (also known as Steiner education, after its founder Rudolf Steiner), as well as those exploring the possibility. Others, such as teachers or parents with children at Waldorf or public schools, who are interested in an open approach to Waldorf in the home, are also welcome.
CM4primaryyears
To discuss the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling elementary age children, and to share the joys and concerns of everyday life.
EclecticHS
This email list is an adjunct of the Eclectic Homeschool Online. Discusses information and resources helpful to eclectic homeschoolers.
Support4HomeSchool
This is an email group of Christian homeschoolers who teach their children using living literature.
cmason
This list is for persons who are using or are interested in using the Charlotte Mason Philosophy for education (including homeschooling), or to enrich their own lives. Thislist espouses a Christian philosophy and is also a prayer list. It is also a very active discussion list, often 100 posts per day.
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum Families
This list is for families using the classical approach to education as outlined in Laura Berquist's book Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum (DYOCC).
Homeschooling Creatively
This list is a place where parents can come to understand and give value to our creative children as we home/unschool with them. The focus will be on discussing alternative ways (versus public school methods) to help our creative children learn which best suits their learning style and respects their complex personality traits, taking a look at creating a success-based learning environment that draws on the strengths of our creative learners while providing support-based opportunities to gently guide their intense natures.
Secret Society of Unschooling Dads (SSUD)
This group is for Unschooling Dads, Granddads, and Dads-to-be who have attended one of the past 3 Live and Learn Conferences OR who have spouses who attended one of these conferences. Other unschooling fathers (et al.) can also join the group through invitation. Our intention is to keep a running dialog and passion for unschooling our children between conferences.
Sonlight Unschoolers
This email group is for those who use Sonlight curricula but also like the unschooling approach (and other compatable methods). Working out how to mix the two, curricula exchange/sales, and connecting with other eclectic Christian unschoolers is the object.
1 Parent HS
This group is for support, advice, friendship and educational helps for single parents who are homeschooling.
African American Homeschoolers
This group is for African American parents (or parents of African American children) who are homeschooling their children. It is also for parents looking to supplement their children's education with home study.
Chevra
Chevra was formed in September 1998 as an online support community for Jewish homeschoolers of all varieties. It tends to be a very chatty place where they discuss Jewish observance, homeschooling, family life, outside interests, and (the favorite topic) why the laundry never seems to get done. If you are looking for a group that discusses only homeschooling and Judaic resources, you may very well be disappointed in Chevra's free-wheeling discussions of everything under the sun, but there is lots of great information here.
Crunchy Unschoolers
A list for unschoolers who are interested in moving towards a sustainable lifestyle. Topics for discussion may include how sustainability and unschooling complement each other, and how we resolve conflicting values.
Jewish Homeschoolers
The focus of this list will be to provide homeschooling support and resources to Jewish homeschoolers of all levels of observance. Topics include curriculum choices, teaching tips, and holiday observances.
Sonlight Curriculum-Charlotte Mason
This is a list for homeschooling moms using Sonlight curriculum, whether just parts of it or the full curriculum, and incorporating the educational methods and ideas of Charlotte Mason into their homes.
Large Families Home School
This list is to encourage and support those who homeschool many children. How many? To some 3 is a lot! If you have a large family (whether natural, adopted, foster or blended) and homeschool, you know that there are a lot of unique challenges ranging from orchestrating family harmony, dealing with multiple ages, trying to homeschool in a sometimes chaotic environment, keeping up with the never-ending laundry, transportation, cooking, chores, and more. This is a Christian list.
Living Book Reviews
Living Book Reviews offers reviews of books considered "living" books for children which are useful for acquiring a love of learning.
Child-Led Christian Unschooling
This child-led learning group is for those unschoolers who are also Christians.
African-American Single Parent Homeschoolers
African-American Single Parent Homeschoolers is a discussion group designed to lend support and resources to parents who are home schooling alone.
Big Families Recipes
A recipe group list with recipes that big families can enjoy. Discuss recipe successes and failures. Feel free to upload your own recipes or download others.
Unschoolers Coffee Talk
A place for unschoolers to come together to discuss our adventures and experiences,share resources and information.
Onlies-HS
This list is dedicated to families homeschooling only-children. These families have unique socialization issues and must often be super-creative in their solutions. Join this list if you are homeschooling a wonderful Only.
African American Homeschooler
This is a Yahoo group email list for African American parent(s) who homeschool their children.
Mater Amabilis Teacher Training Forum
Mater Amabilis is a free online homeschool curriculum, which takes the methods of Charlotte Mason and applies them for the 21st century Catholic family. Offering a detailed and flexible syllabus for each age level, Mater Amabilis can be used as a complete curriculum or simply as a springboard for learning. This online teacher training forum provides support in implementing the methods of Charlotte Mason and tips for adapting these methods to today's family.
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