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.

LRA is a Columbus Ohio Christian cooperative homeschool support group. As a ministry of Linworth Road Church, LRA is rich with inspired and enthusiastic teachers leading ideal-sized group classes for students K-Middle School. Growth opportunities abound through field trips, group activities, special events, and so much more! LRA Group classes meet on the first three Fridays from 9 to noon during the months of September through April. Partial or full memberships currently available- varied commitment levels in which to choose.

Our mission at Linworth Road Academy is to support member families who home educate as they raise up their elementary and middle school-age children to their full potential as devoted followers of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:19,20)

LRA exists to provide supplemental education, extra-curricular, social, and ministry opportunities for LRA students as well as provide support and encouragement to home school families.

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

To find out more about us, please stop by the Community Library in Sunbury, Ohio and ask to see our information folder at the front desk. We hold monthly meetings from September to May in the Sunbury area. We also organize weekly classes during the school year for pre-school through high school aged children.

This co-op provides home schooling families with Christian based enrichment and supplemental classes in a group setting. All home schooling families are welcome. The Learning Tree Home School Co-op offers a variety of classes for children in preschool through 8th grade.

The purpose of Upper Arlington Christian Homeschoolers (UACH) is to support and encourage parents in their homeschooling effort as they endeavor to disciple their children to the glory of God. The group offers classes which would be difficult or impossible in a single home setting through emphasizing group activities to complement our schooling endeavors at home.

UACH is a volunteer-run ministry. Through the involvement and effort of all of its member families, UACH can provide encouragement, resource exchanges and curriculum ideas for families, assist new homeschoolers, form field trips, arrange academic events/competitions, and provide academic and social interaction with other parents and children with similar concerns and educational goals. We also offer Standardized Testing using the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills every spring.

Membership registration runs through August 31st for the coming school year. Others interested in joining after that date are enrolled based upon space availability or placed on a waiting list for membership in the coming year. Membership often re-opens in November for second semester enrollment. Please visit our website for more information.

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, and Lancaster 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.

We are making initial plans to open a Challenge Program this year. The Challenge program will include students ages 12 through 13 this coming year, and older children as soon as possible. The Challenge program 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.

WAHA is part of FamilyVision, a 501c3 non-profit committed to “Building Families, Training Leaders.” www.familyvision.us

WAHA meets in Westerville, and offers an affordable, quality Christian education for middle school and high school students, and a great morning program – WAHA Jr. – for children ages 5-11.

Since we are “ability-based,” rather than “grade-based,” many of our WAHA Jr. children also take Latin, Public Speaking, and other “middle school” classes.

Philosophically, we emphasize traditional education (classical, western civilization core approach) taught consistent with a Christian worldview. We also offer specific Christian Worldview instruction.

We have a variety of types of families in our group: many Christian denominations, Catholics, new homeschoolers, and 10 year + homeschoolers.

Much more information available on our website. We hope we can be a blessing to your family this year!

Educating For Heaven connects Columbus Catholic homeschooling families by providing a central location for homeschool information and support. Families new to Catholic homeschooling can easily find the information and support necessary for a successful entry to homeschooling.

Educating For Heaven promotes Catholic homeschooling through understanding and accepting home educators, supporting Catholic homeschooling families, and maintaining relationships with groups in Ohio dedicated to the purpose and success of Catholic homeschooling.

“Since parents have given children their life, they are bound by the most serious obligation to educate their offspring and therefore must be recognized as the primary and principal educators” – Vatican Council II, Declaration on Christian Education

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.