Call to Action: Share your resources, writeups/guides, and success stories for our new Community Guide
Hello everyone!
Following the recent feedback request (and thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts!), we’ve decided to create a community guide: an easy-to-access hub filled with resources for current and former homeschool students navigating the many struggles we run into, both big and small. We have a loose structure in mind already, but we need help from all of you to make it something truly useful.
More specifically, we’re looking for resources, writeups, guides, personal experiences, and success stories from the community. I’ll be putting together as much as I can myself, but there are many experiences you all have had that I never will, and perspectives I simply can’t speak to.
If there’s an online resource that helped you catch up academically, pursue your GED, apply to college, build social skills, learn basic life skills, or otherwise move forward after homeschooling, please share it. If you know of crisis lines, support organizations, educational tools, or anything else that could help someone in a difficult situation, we’d love to include those too.
And personal stories matter just as much. If you went from not knowing how to boil water to being able to cook for yourself, or from being isolated to building friendships and independence, your experience could really help someone else feel less alone and more hopeful.
You can share resources and writeups in the comments below. If you’d prefer to stay anonymous or not be directly credited, feel free to message modmail (send a DM to r/homeschoolrecovery), and we’ll include your contribution anonymously.
Just as importantly, this guide needs to serve the whole community. Even if you don’t have a resource to contribute, please speak up if there’s something you struggled with/are still struggling with that you wish there had been a guide, or resource for. If there’s something missing from the planned structure below, or something you think should be included, let us know in the comments or via modmail.
Here's a rough idea of what the planned structure for the guide is now. If there's something you feel is missing, please speak up in the comments or send a DM to r/homeschoolrecovery
Start Here/Welcome/Introduction
Brief introduction to the subreddit, what it's about, who it's for, table of contents
Immediate safety/abuse resources
Resources for child abuse, domestic violence, crisis lines, runaway/youth shelters, how to contact CPS, digital safety/privacy
Possibly also define what abuse is, since a lot of abuse victims don't necessarily believe they're being abused
Mental health/trauma resources
Crisis resources, guides to seeking therapy/finding the right therapist, religious trauma resources, support groups
Educational resources
khan academy and other educational material organized by age group and subject, GED resources, college prep resources, higher education resources i.e. fafsa, trade schools, online colleges, adult literacy programs, et, even just "how to find and apply for colleges"
Life skills/"how to adult"
Budgeting, hygiene, cooking, job applications, email etiquette, how to find an apartment, transportation, how to find healthcare, stuff like that
Socialization/"finding community"
Meetups, hobby groups, volunteering groups, community discords, adult ed classes, neurodivergent resources, etc.
Advocacy/homeschool reform
Link to CRHE, how to find and contact your legislators, etc.
Hear from other homeschoolers
Links to success stories on the subreddit, books by former homeschoolers i.e. Tara Westover, Stefan Block, etc.