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These national organizations provide useful information and/or legal support for home-educating families:
- Alliance Defending Freedom
- Alliance for Self-Directed Education
- Christian Law Association (CLA)
- Culpepper Law
- Heritage Defense
- Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
- Homeschoolers Helping Homeschoolers (H3)
- HSLDA Military Families
- Legal Shield
- National Alliance of Christian Home Education Leadership, The (The Alliance)
- National Black Home Educators
- National Center for Life and Liberty (NCLL)
- National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD)
- National Home School Association (NHSA)
- Pacific Justice Institute
- Rutherford Institute, The
- Team Law
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Please be aware that ANTI-HOMESCHOOL groups also exist. These organizations claim to be homeschool advocacy groups but actually seek to severely restrict homeschool freedom by promoting governmental "oversight" and insinuate that "abuse" runs rampant in home-educating families. We will not link to these sites and we urge caution in looking them up to avoid giving them site traffic or allowing their use of cookies to track you. However, these organizations seek media attention and are oft-quoted in anti-homeschool articles and stories, so it's important to be aware of their existence:
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- Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE)
- Homeschoolers Anonymous (HA)
- Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out (HARO)
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For those interested in applying for membership in honor societies, these organizations are open to home-educated teens:
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- Eta Sigma Alpha
- National Math Honor Society for the Homeschool Community
- National Society of High School Scholars, The
- Science National Honor Society
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