The Western Region Unschoolers is a group for unschoolers who live in the Western U.S. covering: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and California. This is a forum to announce and organize conferences, travel, camping, and other places to get together.

This is a secular homeschool group for the Central Arizona Area. Offers meetings, homeschool ideas, filed trips, and other activities for children.

Holy Family Home Educators (HFHE) is a gathering of Catholic families who homeschool or who support the principles of homeschooling from Tucson and the surrounding communities. This is also the local chapter of the national group Traditions of Roman Catholic Homes (TORCH). Offers park days, Daughters of Mary and Blue Knights clubs, field trips, and more.

Support group for homeschoolers who apprciate attachment parenting and alternative methods of living. Offers co-op type activities, child interest field trips, and lots of playtime.

F.H.C.H.E. is a local support group for Fountain Hills, Arizona, homeschool families. This group is a Christian-rooted organization, although families need not be Christian to join or participate in group activities. Offers support meetings, field trips, science fair, graduation, and more.

Red Mountain Life Learners is an East Valley network of unschooling families focused on life learning. Members are expected to support the group by sharing their passions i.e. organizing group activities such as field trips, park days, foreign language classes, chess club, camping trips, drama, yoga, art and cooking classes, etc.

Eastside Explorers is a co-operative support group for the northeast Valley of The Sun (northeast region of Phoenix, AZ metro area), open to families who educate their children at home. Offers educational opportunities and activities, including parent support meetings, monthly park days with workshops, field trips, special events, and a monthly newsletter. This co-op operates within a framework of Judeo-Christian values.

Support group for homeschoolers who follow a child-led method of education. Meeting spots alternate between the East, West, North, and South Valley, and members live in North Scottsdale, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Phoenix, Goodyear, and other surrounding communities. Meetings are primarily for socialization and support.

The Desert Homeschoolers of D-M is an inclusive support group for homeschooling families assigned to Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson AZ. All homeschoolers, of all ages, religious backgrounds and schooling methods are welcome. Offers park days, field trips, and other activities.

SDH is a secular home education network serving homeschoolers throughout Tucson and Southern Arizona. Offers park days, Mom's night out, clubs, activities, and support.

Arizona Families for Home Education (AFHE) is the statewide organization that serves the needs and protects the rights of all Arizona homeschool families. Offers information and support, including facts on Arizona's homeschooling laws.

Phoenix Unschoolers is a support group for unschoolers who wish to communicate with other like minded individuals. Members come from all over the entire Phoenix area, including North Scottsdale, Phoenix, Gilbert, Glendale, and Goodyear.

H.E.R.O. is a Christian support group network for homeschooling families in Arizona's East Valley and beyond (Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, Queen Creek, Phoenix, etc.), as well as families from the West Valley. Offers e-mail updates sharing information sent in by and for homeschoolers, information on field trips, activities, classes, park days, and more.

Support group for Christian homeschoolers in northwest Tucson. Offers field trips, activites, events, support, information, and more.

This is a Christian support group serving the Northeast Valley and Phoenix area. Offers field trips, service projects, park days, monthly newsletter, family camp outs, P.E. classes, and more.

The High Desert Homeschoolers is an all inclusive group of homeschooling families in Cochise County whose purpose is to provide support and foster friendships through a variety of activities. Offers park days and other activities.

This is a Christ-centered homeschooling support group serving the needs of families with children of preschool age to grade 12 in the Greater Phoenix area. Offers activities and get-togethers, along with field trips, clubs, classes, holiday events, and support.

This is an online secular community for Arizona parents with inquisitive and imaginative children. Offers information on local events, outings, and discussions.

Do you unschool your children and live in the North Phoenix, Arizona area (Paradise Valley, North Scottsdale, Cave Creek, Anthem, New River, Black Canyon City, Desert Hills)? North Phoenix Unschoolers is a Yahoo group that offers support and opportunities to connect with other unschoolers in your area.

Colorado River Homeschoolers an inclusive homeschool group, open to all homeschoolers, regardless of style of homeschooling or religion. Located in the Bullhead City/Fort Mohave, AZ, Laughlin, NV, and Needles, CA area.

Rainbow Explorers is a Christian homeschool support group that serves African-American families in the Greater Phoenix area. They welcome all families homeschooling African-American children including those families of any religion and families with parents of diverse races. Rainbow Explorers strives to provide opportunities for African-American homeschoolers in Arizona to meet and get to know one another. They provide resources, help and encouragement to African-American homeschoolers and the homeschool community at large. Offers park days, field trips, and other activities.

BETT places an emphasis on cooperative teaching, strong family values, and the importance of education. BETT has a Tucson-wide membership base. Monthly field trips and cooperative teaching are offered to facilitate a lifelong enjoyment of learning.

Christian support group for homeschoolers in southeast Tucson. Offers moms' support, family activities, resource library, field trips, and kids' activities.

Eclectic Homeschoolers of Northern Arizona is a homeschool support group for families in the Northern Arizona region. Offers support, information, and meetings. Based in Flagstaff, Eclectic Homeschoolers of Northern Arizona is a Homeschool Support Group offering friendship and support to homeschooling families of all types, with children of all ages.

Arizona Jewish Homeschoolers is a discussion forum and information exchange for homeschooling and unschooling Jewish educators/parents (or those just thinking about it), living in Arizona. It should serve as a means to discuss issues unique to the Arizona Jewish homeschool environment, and a means by which friendships may be formed, events will be planned, and joint homeschool activities may be held. Most of the members are in the Greater Phoenix area, but welcome those from surrounding areas.

This group list is for families who wish to find support while following the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education. The purpose is to help/support parents and students in Arizona, organize outings, study groups, and more.

Support group for Arizona homeschool families using Sonlight Curriculum. Offers discussions, monthly field trips, activities, and more.

The mission of Surprise Home Schoolers is to provide organization, support and fellowship to all home educators in the Surprise area.

Support group for Christian homeschoolers in Cochise County. Offers classes, information, support, newsletter, spelling bee, and more.

North Scottsdale Homeschoolers (NSHS) is a secular home school support group. Offers monthly activities, play dates, field trips, support, and information.

Denver Catholic Homeschoolers (DCH) is a homeschooling support group for Catholic home educating families in the Denver metro area (and surrounding areas of Colorado). This groups.io site is our online communication network. Our focus is on topics and discussions related to homeschooling and our Catholic faith and the promotion of educational and faith formation activities for Catholic homeschool families in our local community.  

New Hope Homeschoolers is a group of Christian families in the Northwest Phoenix area who have chosen to homeschool their children. Members reside in Glendale, Goodyear, Phoenix, Peoria, and Surprise. Offers information on homeschooling and legal issues, teaching ideas, curriculum information, family socials, educational field trips, and group activities for children.

This is a non-denominational support group for homeschooling families in the West/Southwest/Central Phoenix area. Offers support and activities.

A support group for unschoolers who wish to communicate with other like minded individuals. Focused on the entire Phoenix area, with members in North Scottsdale, Phoenix, Gilbert, Glendale, Goodyear and Desert Hills. Meeting spots are alternated so that meetings are as convenient as possible for everyone.

Membership in the Veritas Homeschoolers support group is open to all homeschooling families who live in or around the Ahwatukee Foothills, south Tempe, and Chandler, Arizona areas. Veritas Homeschoolers is an evangelical Christian support group for those who are educating their children at home, including preschool age children. Although this is a Christian organization with Christian leadership, membership in Veritas Homeschoolers is open to all those wishing to homeschool their children. Offers park days, youth group, field trips, Mom's night out, and more.

This is a secular parent-run homeschool cooperative that spans the entire Phoenix metropolitan area. Offers field trips, co-op classes, park days, and more. Summit View Homeschool Cooperative includes families from the East Side of the Valley in Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Apache Junction, Ahwatukee, and Gold Canyon. Ages of the children in the group range from toddlers to high school. The main function of Summit View is to provide support, as well as a social outlet for homeschooling families. In addition to many field trips, theater performances, and other activities, we also have subgroups which include a book club, science club, teen club, geography club, drama club, preschool playgroups, games club, hiking club, and a parent support group. Also offered are several park days per month.

Desert Hills Christian Homeschoolers is one of the oldest homeschool support groups in Arizona. Members come from New River, Desert Hills, Black Canyon City, Cave Creek, Anthem, and the surrounding areas. Offers monthly Mentor Mom meetings, weekly P.E. class, co-ops, field trips, used curriculum sales, Field Day, and more.

West Side Home Educators supports homeschooling families in Peoria, Glendale, North Phoenix, Surprise and other West Valley communities. This is a mostly Christian group, but is not affiliated with a particular denomination. Offers educational and social activities, field trips, sports, weekly activities, and more.

A Phoenix-based network of independent home-educating families supporting each other by sharing experiences, information, ideas, and playtimes. Dedicated to the importance of our right to educate our children in the way we feel is best. The structure is informal. Offers field trips and a park day once a month.

Learning Expedition is a secular home schooling social support group serving metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Most members live in NE Phoenix and in Scottsdale, but all are welcome. Offers weekly meetings and other activities.

Mi C.A.S.A. Homeschoolers is a homeschool support group serving the Casa Grande Valley and surrounding communities in Arizona.

A home school support group for Tempe, Arizona and the surrounding community. Offers monthly meetings, lending library, monthly newsletter, children's activities, testing, and more.

Support group serving the Yuma area. Offers support, information, and activities including park days, field trips, Mom's night out, and more.

This support group, inclusive and non-profit, fosters a rich social life amongst homeschool and small school students by organizing sports leagues, dances, games, Karaoke, bowling, pizza or movie nights. Teens take responsibility to pick the events, decide upon the participants, set rules and select volunteers on this site, even to set up and clean up. Parents of teens then supervise and advise to make this group beneficial to all.

This site is for Jewish Homeschoolers to share lessons, thoughts and ideas in integrating all levels of Judaism into homeschooling their child(ren).

The Well is an e-mail list for members of Arizona’s Rainbow Explorers, a Christian homeschool support group for African-American families in the Greater Phoenix area.

The HomeSchool HeartBeat provides a monthly newsletter to keep Arizona homeschoolers informed of events, classes, workshops, resources, support group news, informational meetings, and more.

This is the Southern California Homeschool Teen Connection Announcement board. This group is strictly for promoting Teen Only activities around southern California and connecting teen homeschoolers to groups in their locality.

Central AZ Life Learners is a support group for Life Learners and Unschoolers in both the East and West Valley.

This group is a branch of Summit View Homeschool Cooperative andserves the North Valley cities of North Phoenix, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Paradise Valley, and other northern Valley communities.

Arizona Christian Homeschoolers is a Christian based homeschool support group that serves homeschooling families in the NW valley. They offer park days, a monthly newsletter, multiple social activities for every member of the family, field trips, support for the new homeschool family with newcomer meetings, and a yearbook for those who want one.

This e-mail group offers support for Homeschooling Families in the Greater Phoenix Arizona Area. Includes discussions, encouragement, curriculum ads for either buying or selling, sales event notification, web site links for educational purposes, info on laws, freebies for educators, and more.

Summit View Homeschool Cooperative includes families from the East Side of the Valley in Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Apache Junction, Ahwatukee, and Gold Canyon. Ages of the children in the group range from toddlers to high school. The main function of Summit View is to provide support, as well as a social outlet for homeschooling families. In addition to many field trips, theater performances, and other activities, we also have subgroups which include a book club, science club, teen club, geography club, drama club, preschool playgroups, games club, hiking club, and a parent support group. Also offered are several park days per month.

YahooGroup for parents home educating in Arizona. Discussions center around homeschooling laws and requirements in the state, resources, lesson plans, field trip ideas, where to find support groups -- in short, anything and everything to do with homeschooling.

Southern Arizona Home Schoolers is a list open to anyone interested in homeschooling in Southern Arizona.

This group is a branch of Summit View Homeschool Cooperative and serves the West Valley cities of Phoenix, Glendale, Avondale, Litchfield, Tonopah and other westside communities.

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.

The Western Region Unschoolers is a group for unschoolers who live in the Western U.S. covering: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and California. This is a forum to announce and organize conferences, travel, camping, and other places to get together.

Red Mountain Life Learners is an East Valley network of unschooling families focused on life learning. Members are expected to support the group by sharing their passions i.e. organizing group activities such as field trips, park days, foreign language classes, chess club, camping trips, drama, yoga, art and cooking classes, etc.

The Desert Homeschoolers of D-M is an inclusive support group for homeschooling families assigned to Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson AZ. All homeschoolers, of all ages, religious backgrounds and schooling methods are welcome. Offers park days, field trips, and other activities.

Phoenix Unschoolers is a support group for unschoolers who wish to communicate with other like minded individuals. Members come from all over the entire Phoenix area, including North Scottsdale, Phoenix, Gilbert, Glendale, and Goodyear.

This is an online secular community for Arizona parents with inquisitive and imaginative children. Offers information on local events, outings, and discussions.

Do you unschool your children and live in the North Phoenix, Arizona area (Paradise Valley, North Scottsdale, Cave Creek, Anthem, New River, Black Canyon City, Desert Hills)? North Phoenix Unschoolers is a Yahoo group that offers support and opportunities to connect with other unschoolers in your area.

Colorado River Homeschoolers an inclusive homeschool group, open to all homeschoolers, regardless of style of homeschooling or religion. Located in the Bullhead City/Fort Mohave, AZ, Laughlin, NV, and Needles, CA area.

Eclectic Homeschoolers of Northern Arizona is a homeschool support group for families in the Northern Arizona region. Offers support, information, and meetings. Based in Flagstaff, Eclectic Homeschoolers of Northern Arizona is a Homeschool Support Group offering friendship and support to homeschooling families of all types, with children of all ages.

Arizona Jewish Homeschoolers is a discussion forum and information exchange for homeschooling and unschooling Jewish educators/parents (or those just thinking about it), living in Arizona. It should serve as a means to discuss issues unique to the Arizona Jewish homeschool environment, and a means by which friendships may be formed, events will be planned, and joint homeschool activities may be held. Most of the members are in the Greater Phoenix area, but welcome those from surrounding areas.

This group list is for families who wish to find support while following the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education. The purpose is to help/support parents and students in Arizona, organize outings, study groups, and more.

Support group for Arizona homeschool families using Sonlight Curriculum. Offers discussions, monthly field trips, activities, and more.

A support group for unschoolers who wish to communicate with other like minded individuals. Focused on the entire Phoenix area, with members in North Scottsdale, Phoenix, Gilbert, Glendale, Goodyear and Desert Hills. Meeting spots are alternated so that meetings are as convenient as possible for everyone.

West Side Home Educators supports homeschooling families in Peoria, Glendale, North Phoenix, Surprise and other West Valley communities. This is a mostly Christian group, but is not affiliated with a particular denomination. Offers educational and social activities, field trips, sports, weekly activities, and more.

A Phoenix-based network of independent home-educating families supporting each other by sharing experiences, information, ideas, and playtimes. Dedicated to the importance of our right to educate our children in the way we feel is best. The structure is informal. Offers field trips and a park day once a month.

This is a message forum at vegsource.com especially for single parents who are home educating their children.

Discuss Charlotte Mason's ideas and find new way to implement those ideas at the forum sponsored by vegsource.com.

Connect with other military homeschooling families at this vegsource.com message board.

Unschoolers meet to talk and share ideas at this vegsource.com message board.

A message board at vegsource.com for those who homeschool for non-religious reasons.

The WAHM message boards provide a forum where you can make announcements, promote your home business, find business services, and much more. The WAHM forum is also a great social network for work at home moms. Share your WAHM stories, find help, support and advice, and meet other WAHMs across the USA and around the world.

A message board for parents who are homeschooling special needs children.

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.

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.

This message board is designed for unschooling parents to connect, ask questions, share information and ideas, and get support.

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.

To discuss the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling elementary age children, and to share the joys and concerns of everyday life.

This is a Christian email group that can help you face those feelings of burnout.

This group is primarily for blind parents who are interested in alternative parenting styles and issues. This includes atachment parenting, family bed, baby-wearing, gentle disipline, loving guidance, breastfeeding, healthy eating and living, health prevention, nonviolence, nonspanking, unschooling or homeschooling, spirituality, and more.

This is an online support group for families who are pursuing an eclectic style of homeschooling. Although many members of the group are religious-minded, the list itself is secular.

A list designed for those new to the philosophy of unschooling. Ask experienced unschoolers all those niggling questions, and find out how unschooling works in real families. If you're familiar with John Holt's work, but unsure of how to begin or what an unschooling day really looks like, this is a place for you to discuss, question, ponder, and become deeply familiar with natural learning and how it affects our entire lives. From parenting issues to learning from the whole wide world and beyond, come explore the issues that unschooling families have dealt with in the past and how to get beyond "school-think" to a joyful unschooling lifestyle.!

Are you working fulltime and feeling as though you and your children have been left out of the homeschool loop? Are you a single parent concerned you might not be able to meet the demands of homeschooling? Does your child have special needs? Dell's Place has established a network for working moms, single parents, and the rest of us who struggle to pull it all together. The purpose of this network is for support and encouragement, but it's also to offer real solutions from other parents who struggle with the same issues.

Feeling like you must be the only radical unschooler in the Christian faith? Tired of hearing those who claim to be Christian unschoolers discuss curriculum or how to make their kids do chores? Tired of hearing secular unschoolers say that you couldn't possibly exist? Look no farther! On this list there will be no talk of curriculum, spanking, chore charts, coercive limitations, forced respect, or anything else that doesn't jive with radical unschooling. This list is for discussing radical unschooling by people who already "get it" and want to connect with other radically unschooling Christian families.

This is a list for all who are pregnant for the third or more time and are having a large family by choice. Discussions include the difficulties of having several at home when dealing with sickness and fatigue, homeschooling, and more. This is a supportive list where people believe that large families are wonderful.

Share successes and ideas and build a helpful, welcoming archive for the new unschoolers, the newly-unschooling, and the nicely unschooling.

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.

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. 

A place for unschoolers to come together to discuss our adventures and experiences,share resources and information.

A curriculum buy, sell, and swap group for those using a Catholic Charlotte Mason/Living Books/Classical method of home education.

This group is for large families using the K-12 curriculum created by Dr. William Bennett. Both homeschooling families and Virtual School families are welcome. It is particularly intended for families with more than 3 children in K-12 as well as additional teens, toddlers and babies. Discussions include both the curriculum and the challenges of implementing it in a large family.

A place for Christian single-parent homeschoolers to find encouragement and support.

This is a Yahoo group email list for African American parent(s) who homeschool their children.

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.

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.

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.

Afrocentric Homeschoolers Association Email Group is a discussion group for pro-Black African and/or African Diasporan, Black homeschoolers, unschoolers, deschoolers, and home-based educators everywhere. It is also open to non-homeschoolers and non-Blacks who are trying to teach their children about Blacks. It was founded as a resource for Black homeschoolers, Blacks in Canada, the U.S., Caribbean, and elsewhere, including the African Canadian, African American, African Caribbean, Black European, African, and Black Canadian.

This list is an opportunity for homeschoolers to contact homeschooling attorneys and experts about homeschooling legal and litigation issues. It is an informal network of attorneys and legal experts that are concerned with litigation pending and threatened against homeschoolers. Its primary purpose is to exchange legal information within the profession, and to educate and support attorneys and experts involved in homeschool litigation.

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.

This list is for the buying and selling of resources (biographies,poetry and art books, teacher resources, etc.) that are in conformity with the Charlotte Mason "twaddle-free" philosophy. This is strictly a buying and selling list.

This discussion list is the companion communications forum for the Unschooling.com website.

This is a list for single parents homeschooling their children. The purpose of this list is to support single parents.

The Unschoolers' Circle is an inclusive list for anyone interested in home education with unschooling leanings.

This loop was created for homeschoolers interested in presenting school materials, real books, and/or purchased curriculum in a manner consistent with Classical Education philosophy. Specifically, Classical Education refers to educational models (such as the Trivium) described by Laura Berquist, the Bluedorns, Dorothy Sayers, Doug Wilson, Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer, and others, in which material is presented to children according to their stage of development (i.e., Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric stages). The purpose of this loop is practical in nature: to share resource suggestions, reviews, schedules, ideas, and encouragement, in order to help one another provide Classical Education within the homeschool environment.

This group is for the discussion of all things related to running a business while homeschooling. This list is for you if you homeschool and run a business (from home or elsewhere) or are thinking of starting a business. You'll get ideas on businesses that the whole family can participate in. If you are single and homeschool, and are looking for ways to be the sole wage earner while homeschooling, this list will also be helpful.

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.

TheHomeSchoolMom In The Kitchen is an e-mail group designed to provide economical, balanced meal ideas that are quick and easy for busy moms. Provides dinner tips, recipes, and resources that help take "piranha hour" and turn it into calmer and more peaceful time.

This group consists of two things: 1) a bi-weekly newsletter with articles about living books, book collecting, taking care of and organizing your home school library, using living books in your homeschool, notebooking, book and author reviews, and more; and 2.) a bi-weekly catalog of living books for sale on eBay, plus and some unit studies.

Boys... whether you have one, two, three or more---this is the spot to discuss their special needs. This is a group of mostly homeschool Moms who are devoted to their sons and are on a constant search for resources and wisdom for raising young men with character, integrity, preparing them for life.

This list is sponsored by Home Education Magazine (HEM) for networking and communication within the online homeschooling community.

This email list is an adjunct of the Eclectic Homeschool Online. Discusses information and resources helpful to eclectic homeschoolers.

Discussion for homeschooling fans of John Holt, whose books Learning All the Time, Never Too Late, and Teach your Own have made unschooling an option for thousands of families.

CM Audiobooks was created to allow homeschooling parents the ability to share MP3 files of personal book readings. These audiobooks are of Twaddle-free books per the Charlotte Mason method and specifically created for those using the Ambleside Online curriculum. Anyone using the Charlotte Mason method is welcome to join and participate by reading books.

This group is an announcement list for the print magazine Live Free Learn Free, a forum for unschoolers and relaxed homeschoolers in which to share ideas and experiences.

This group is for support, advice, friendship and educational helps for single parents who are homeschooling.

This is a free email loop for those educating their children with classical materials. Anyone may post want to buy (WTB) or for sale (FS) ads on this list.