caitlinsmom Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I want to be able to find others who are in the local area but right now there is no organization/group/email loop available. How have you found others in your area? Do email groups work well? Which one works best? Anyone tried flyer's around the area? Any ideas would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I found a few local homeschoolers by looking here. I also met many of my local homeschool friends at the library... we all seem to head there during school hours. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I'm the mod of a small local group. We use Yahoo Groups and it seems to be popular for local lists like that. We found our group by searching on Yahoo Groups and others seem to find us through word of mouth and through simply searching for "home school" and our city on Yahoo Groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty in Pink Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 If you're a member of HSLDA you can check out their directory of homeschool groups. I'm pretty sure homeschool classifieds also has a directory (though it's not updated regularly so it's hit or miss when going through whether individual organizations are still active, but it's worth a shot). You can search Yahoo groups and/or Google for "name of your city/county + homeschool." Is there a forum here to network with other homeschoolers by geographic region? I can't recall. If you're comfortable enough maybe you could start a thread titled "Name of your state homeschoolers, please read me!" and share that you're trying to network. You don't have to list your city but maybe through PMs you can hook up with someone in your region? Doesn't each state have one major homeschool organization? You could contact them to inquire about active groups in your area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I found my local group on Yahoo groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Our group is on meetup.com, so that might be a good place to start. Also, you might have local museums and/or historical places of interest that offer "homeschool days" or "homeschool programs," and that might be a good place to ask... or good events to network at. For that matter, our bowling alley has a homeschool bowling league. You could look up (just google) homeschool groups in your state and see if anything comes up. If you really can't find anything, you might want to consider starting your own group- either on meetup.com, or by perhaps putting up flyers with an email address and/or forum you start in places that homeschoolers might frequent. Like the library for instance. The library might even be able to tell you whether there ARE other homeschoolers in your area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Another vote here for Yahoo groups and www.meetup.com .... You can also check http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/weblinks/support.htm which has a listing of support groups by state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caitlinsmom Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 Thanks for the ideas. I had already checked out most of those ideas. I resigned myself to starting my own group on Yahoo so here is hoping that I find at least one other person. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Thanks for the ideas. I had already checked out most of those ideas. I resigned myself to starting my own group on Yahoo so here is hoping that I find at least one other person. :) which area of the country are you in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty in Pink Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Did anyone mention the library? I've had luck with getting contact info that way. I just ask the librarian or children's librarian if they know any homeschoolers in the area. Larger churches might have homeschool co-ops organized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Thanks for the ideas. I had already checked out most of those ideas. I resigned myself to starting my own group on Yahoo so here is hoping that I find at least one other person. :) Hope you get a good response! We live in an area where there are lots of homeschool support groups, but I couldn't find one that provided what I was looking for when we started homeschooling last year (most of the groups around here are primarily academically focused - I wanted something that was more of a social group). So I started up my own group on www.meetup.com last April. It now has 160 member families... :) If you build it, they will come (they did in my case at least - and I hope they do for you too!)... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy loves Bud Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Have you checked out the networking board here on TWTM forums? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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