Listed below are links to national and upper mid-west homeschool organizations*:
NATIONAL
- HSLDA - Home School Legal Defense Association
HSLDA is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children and to protect family freedoms.
- ICHE - Illinois Christian Home Educators
ICHE is a not-for-profit Christian organization composed of families dedicated to the success of home education in Illinois.
- PAACH - Peoria Area Association of
Christian Homeschoolers
The mission of PAACH is to connect homeschooling families with resources that equip, support, and encourage them in their efforts.
- HI - Homeschool Iowa
Homeschool Iowa exists to equip and encourage Iowa homeschooling families and to promote and protect home education in our state.
- Kansas Home Educators (formerly TPA)
Kansas Home Educators exists to encourage, educate and support homeschool families throughout the state of Kansas.
- MÂCHÉ - Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators
MÂCHÉ (pronounced "Mah-shay") was formed in 1983 to encourage Christian families in the home education of their children. MÂCHÉ is a statewide, facilitating organization for all parents who have chosen to homeschool.
- MCHEC Minnesota Catholic Home Education
Conference
MCHEC is a non-profit organization that began in 1998 for the purpose of providing an annual conference to encourage and inspire homeschool parents in their mission as the primary educators of their children.
- MHA - Minnesota Homeschoolers’ Alliance
MHA is a volunteer run, non-profit corporation existing for the purpose of providing support and information about homeschooling to MN homeschoolers without bias for or against any religious or political group and without bias for or against any one approach to homeschooling.
- MPE - Midwest Parent Educators
MPE, which began in 1986 as "Johnson County Parent Educators (JCPE)", serves home educators in the greater Kansas City metro area, including many from Wyandotte, Miami, and Douglas counties in Kansas and from counties in and around Kansas City, Missouri.
- NCHEA - Nebraska Christian Home
Educators Association
NCHEA is a volunteer driven, non-profit organization founded in 1986 to encourage and support Christian families in the education of their children at home in accordance with Biblical principles and to support the rights of Christian parents to homeschool their children.
- NDHSA - North Dakota Home School Association
The purpose of NDHSA is to encourage and assist Christian families in North Dakota in the education of their children according to Biblical principles, and to provide to home educators and the general public information pertaining to the Biblical, academic and legal aspects of home education.
- SDCHE - South Dakota Christian Home Educators
SDCHE is a nonprofit, Christ-centered organization dedicated to serving home educators in South Dakota and in neighboring states. Its mission is to provide a covering, support, and encouragement for home educators, educate people about home schooling, provide opportunities for children's enrichment and growth through various activities, promote home schooling to the general public, and monitor legislative issues related to home schooling.
- TEACHSD – The Education Alliance of Christian Homeschoolers in South Dakota
TEACHSD is dedicated to the cultivation, protection and promotion of Christian homeschooling and the homeschool community in the state of South Dakota.
* Please note that we do not necessarily endorse each of these organizations, but we have placed them here for your convenience.
