About NHELD Membership

WHAT DO YOU GET FOR YOUR SUBSCRIPTION FEE?

• The full subscription fee is just $100.00 per year per family/individual and entitles you to all of NHELD, LLC's services.
• Notification by email about proposed legislation that may affect the rights of homeschoolers to educate in freedom.
• Education as to legal advocacy on individual, local, State, and federal issues.
• Access to targeted or exclusive online information and meetings.
• ​Access to particularized information about methods and procedures used successfully in other states by homeschoolers to retain their freedom to educate.
• Joint planning on methods to retain freedom to educate.
• Discounts on NHELD booklets, materials, merchandise, or programs when offered. 

Why reinvent the wheel? NHELD believes that where homeschoolers in one state have succeeded in retaining their freedom to educate, that state should be used as a model to be replicated in the other states, should they choose to do so. In order to facilitate this process, NHELD is establishing a central clearinghouse of information where homeschoolers can present  facts, methods, and procedures they use to successfully resolve legal and political problems in their home state, and to resolve legal and political problems affecting all states. NHELD members can then request and participate in joint meetings across state lines to have power in numbers and in the exchange of ideas. 

NHELD members will be notified about any proposed legislation on the federal level, and on the state level, when available, that will affect their right to educate in freedom.

NHELD will notify subscribers as to the location where they can find and read forthemselves the text of the proposed legislation, and will make suggestions as to what families might do to protect their rights.

NHELD does not believe in just directing families to act in unison on the basis of an opinion that NHELD has formed on its own. NHELD believes in empowering individuals to act in accordance with their own conscience and unique circumstances.

NHELD believes in: (1) informing individuals about where the entire proposed legislation may be located; (2) advising individuals not to take the word of anyone else about what that legislation says, but to read the text for themselves in order to formulate their own opinion about the effect the legislation will have, and (3) suggesting courses of action that individuals may wish to take.

NHELD does not believe in blindly following the word of anyone. NHELD believes in an informed, empowered citizenry, able to fight for freedom effectively, when necessary. 

• Participation in future scholarship program and other programs designed to return benefits to homeschoolers.

NHELD believes that there should be some return on your investment into our organization. That is why we plan to establish certain programs to give back to the homeschoolers who share our belief in freedom to educate. Our goal is to establish a scholarship program, in an amount  available dependent on the growth of the organization. In other words, as our membership list grows, so, too, does the scholarship funding. 

• Knowledge that you are assisting to form a joint venture designed to promote and protect individual freedom for yourself, your children, your grandchildren, and all who come thereafter.

If we don’t stand up now, together, to protect our freedom to educate, we will lose it not only for ourselves but for future generations. That would be not only unthinkable, but unforgivable.

Together we can succeed.

WITH REGARD TO LEGAL MATTERS

In order for any attorney to provide legal advice, the attorney must be licensed to practice law in that state. We will be establishing a network of attorneys to assist you, if necessary, in the months ahead.  In the meantime, we can help you navigate through legal issues in the following ways:

• Provide a plan of action for your family to follow in the event of a problem encountered with government officials in instructing your children.
• Provide communication from NHELD, LLC, to government officials in explanation of homeschooling issues.
• Provide a referral to others knowledgeable about homeschooling issues who may be able to assist you.  

NHELD believes that most legal problems encountered by families who homeschool may be resolved without resorting to litigation or the adoption of new state or federal laws.

NHELD believes that attorneys living, working, and practicing law in your state are most informed about the nuances regarding your state’s homeschooling laws. However, NHELD also believes that these attorneys will be better able to protect your freedom to educate by networking with other attorneys and homeschool associations throughout the country in order to foster exchange of ideas, information, and strategy. That is why NHELD is establishing its network of attorneys and homeschool associations nationwide. Our network will be able to provide valuable assistance in cooperatively developing strategies and in negotiating solutions to your legal problems. You and your state’s attorneys will have access to and the benefit of legal advice from our nationwide network of attorneys whenever needed.

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 In addition, if your group would like to have Attorney Deborah Stevenson appear at your local event, workshop, or speaking engagement, a consulting fee may be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

***Membership via PayPal, or by sending a check payable to NHELD, LLC to P.O. Box 704, Southbury, CT 06488.