Support Groups

Home on the Rock Christian Home Educators is a not-for-profit Christian volunteer organization comprised of families. We are serving one another in order to enable us all to better educate and lead our children as God has directed us. We acknowledge that God is the inspiration and guiding force behind what we do, and all glory belongs to Him.

The Sunbury Home Educators (SHE) is a Christ-centered home school group which welcomes all home-schooling families for encouragement and support.

We hold monthly mom’s meetings, organize field trips, offer standardized testing to members, and hold weekly co-op classes for preschool through high school-aged children. To find out more about us, please click the link above to visit our website and take a look at our FAQ.

Classical Conversations is a family-oriented service for parents who desire to train all of their children in classical Christian education. Classical Conversations’ purpose is to know God and to make Him known, our mission is to teach the tools of learning, and our goal is to create classical Christian community. This coming year Classical Conversations will have communities in the Hilliard, Westerville, Delaware, Pataskala, Grove City and Clintonville areas, and we are currently accepting registrations.

The classical model requires children to practice skills that can be hard to practice just within your family. Classical Conversations provides children with the opportunity and motivation to practice in a warm, Christian environment. Classical Conversations is not a private school, but a service that is operated by tutors who have successfully home schooled their own children and want to complement your home school.

Several different programs are available through Classical Conversations. The morning Foundations Program is for parents and all their children 12 and under. This simple, yet thorough program meets once a week, for 24 weeks during the school year. Trained tutors, who are home school parents in the program, lead each group of students as they participate in art projects, music study, science experiments, oral presentations, and a memorization program in history, geography, Latin, English grammar, math, and science.

The Essentials Program, for 3rd though 6th grade children, meets for 2 hours in the afternoon, and provides a trained tutor that classically teaches the children language arts and leads a Math Slam competition. The writing curriculum used in this program is the Institute for Excellence in Writing.

Challenge Programs for students ages 12 or 7th grade meet in Hilliard and new programs are beginning in Westerville and Clintonville next year. Also, an 8th grade challenge program is launching in Hilliard in the fall of 2011. The Challenge programs offers Latin, logic, rhetoric, science, literature, and math. As students now move into their junior high and high school studies, they are trained to organize facts and to write and speak about all of the subjects in the curriculum. These older students, who are still working under the supervision of their parents, meet one day a week for thirty weeks during the year. The Challenge programs provide a place for the students to make presentations and to participate in discussions from which to examine all worldviews in the light of Scripture.

For more information, follow this link to the Classical Conversations website.

Veritas Academy seeks to provide a classical and Christian education for homeschooled students. The curriculum as a whole stresses literary excellence and sound reasoning in the Biblical and Western tradition. We provide students an intellectual challenge that will prepare them to both proclaim and defend the faith.

This is a networking list for pro-life home educators in the Central Ohio area. It was created to gather homeschooling families to help end abortion right in our own neighborhoods. You say you always wanted to do more – this is the place to help you do just that.

As home educators we are able to teach our children the value of life. We have the opportunity to provide our children with meaningful experiences that not only teach about the life issues, but allow them to participate tangibly in building the Culture of Life. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the evil of abortion, our children will learn how to be the “Light in the Darkness”.

This is not list to debate the topic of abortion but a place to find out how you can help end abortion. To discuss current legal, educational, philosophical and practical issues relevant to abortion. Post your ideas and opinions, your sources and resources, news of interest, events and activities, internet links, as well as your support and suggestions for others in this member forum.

This list does have a Christian foundation. Conservative religious viewpoints are respected as the dominant viewpoint. Anti-Christian sentiments have no place here and will not be allowed. Keep in mind members come from all faiths and no one faith is the dominate faith. We are all home educators and all pro-life.

Our homeschooling support group meets the second Thursday of the month at
the Church of the Redeemer United Methodist Church located at 235 McNaughten
Road in East Columbus (very close to Reynoldsburg).

All homeschoolers are welcome! We are meeting every month on the second
Thursday, from 7:00-9:00 pm. In May we have our annual Homeschool Showcase
event at the same location. Please join our e-mail loop as this will keep
you connected with events and announcements.

Great place for anyone in the homeschool range — from ‘thinking about it’
to ‘seasoned veteran’!

Opus Domini, Works of the Lord, is a Catholic Home School Group serving Columbus, Ohio and surrounding areas. Our members belong to Catholic Parishes all over the surrounding Columbus area. We are a group of families who have chosen to educate some or all of our children at home. We are diverse in our schooling approaches but united in our desire to raise our children to be followers of Christ.

The purpose of the Opus Domini Yahoo group is to facilitate communication and friendship among Catholic homeschooling families, to grow in the faith, and assist in finding resources for these things.

Members are welcome to post messages for discussion, and invite other members to play dates, fairs, religious events, etc. Community events or homeschool days may be posted here, as long as the event is Catholic or homeschool related and not contrary to a love for the Catholic Church. Members are also encouraged to be involved with planning a field trip, activity or special event annually. Members pay annual dues of twenty dollars which pays for party supplies, class supplies, Service Projects, Lending Library and gifts in kind. We offer New Members Mentors, Adult Support and Events, Group Offers, Community Service, Spiritual Guidance, Student Education, Clubs, Groups and Classes.

Opus Domini members strive to be in full communion with the Catholic Church, fully supporting our Holy Father, our bishop, as well as our pastors and priests, with fidelity to the Magisterium of the Church.

SWCAH is an inclusive homeschool group that typically meets on the third Thursday of each month.

This is a networking list for home educators
in Johnstown, Ohio and the surrounding area.

Join us to discuss current legal, educational,
philosophical and practical issues relevant to
homeschooling. Feel free to post your ideas and
opinions, your sources and resources, news of
interest to home educators, events and activities,
internet links, as well as your support and
suggestions for others in this member forum.

This list is not restricted to Christians,
but does have a Christian foundation.
Anti-Christian sentiments have no place
here and will not be allowed.

Public online charter school families are welcome
to join our group. If your child attends public
or private school, you are welcome to join to
learn more about homeschooling.

This support group is primarily for home educators or those who are interested in home education options in the community of Knox County in Mount Vernon, Ohio

We are a Catholic homeschooling group with activities centered in the West Columbus area. Our goals for this group are to develop relationships between families, support the Church, and to build our community. We welcome all Catholic families of ages to join us.

This is a Yahoo network group for those who homeschool and are members of or attend Vineyard Columbus. This group shares information on community events of interest to homeschoolers. We also offer support and encouragement to one another through prayer groups, Bible study, social outings, field trips, and email.