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Brooklyn

• Brooklyn African-American Homeschoolers Connections, connecting families of color with other families of color who are homeschooling in Brooklyn.
• Park Slope Homeschool Community (Brooklyn), email group was created to facilitate networking, event planning, and friendships for homeschooling families in Brooklyn, NY. This is a secular group that it is not limited to one form/method of homeschooling.

Queens

• Queens County Homeschoolers Field trips, outings, educational opportunities, socialization network and so much more.
• Queens Homeschoolers is a secular homeschooling group based in Queens, New York. They host and attend events in Queens County and surrounding areas. The group is open to all homeschoolers regardless of homeschooling philosophy, religion or ethnic background. They also invite those who are interested in home schooling their children in the future to join us in order to learn more.

Staten Island

• Staten Island Homeschoolers is a group open to all Staten Island home schoolers. They welcome people of all religious backgrounds and theoretical approaches!

Westchester, Dutchess and Orange Counties

• Tri-County Homeschoolers, Contact: Mary Ann Baiyor, Tri-County Coordinator: tchs@optonline.net. Tri-County Homeschoolers is an active homeschooling group in the lower and mid-Hudson Valley area, including Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Dutchess and Orange counties in NY as well as Bergen county in NJ and even Fairfield County, CT and NYC. We offer members a monthly newsletter and calendar of events, activities and classes. Activities open to families with children of all ages. We also offer a number of teen trips, classes and activities.

Long Island

• DREAM (Discovery, Resources, Education and More) Home School Group, which has members mostly from Nassau, Suffolk and Queens, as well as a few Brooklyn and Manhattan-ites. This is a secular group with over 100 members. The group offers a forum for discussing homeschooling and other issues, sharing resources, and planning activities such as learning co-ops, field trips and get-togethers.

  The contact info is:
  Lauren Scott (Boingercat (at) aol.com; 516-746-4270)
  Susan Proven (Ulysses942 (at) aol.com)




• LIGHT (Long Islanders Growing at Home Together). email contact.

  LIGHT's vision is to ensure that all families are aware that homeschooling in New York is a legal, viable option as an educational choice. They offer information, organize activities for members by members (and their children and families), hold meetings that support members in their home education choice and help members to introduce themselves to one another.

Connecticut

• CT Homeschool Network (CHN) is Connecticut's statewide information and support network.

New Jersey

• Gifted homeschooling in New Jersey .
• Leaping from the Box > New Jersey is a great list of e-resources
• UnNet, the UnSchoolers' Network

Other Resources

• Go & Learn Homeschool is a nationwide Activities Support Group based in NYC.
• For a list of organizations including homeschooling magazines and books, go to Tarrant Home Education Association (THEA), www.theaonline.org and click on their resource guide for a very well-organized list.
• Shine with Unschooling is a joyful, positive, radical unschooling community that understands and celebrates each and every child for the unique gifts they bring to the world. They have members from all over the world.
• See our page of Special Ed Resources.
• TAG - Families of the Gifted and Talented is a website for for parents homeschooling "gifted and talented" kids. They have several email lists.
• TEENWORK is a support group designed for HomeSchool families raising teenagers between 12-18 years of age.

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