HSLDA Military Families

05/29/2026

🛎️🛎️IMPORTANT UPDATE

After meaningful years of serving homeschool families through HSLDA, I am transitioning from my formal staff role while remaining deeply committed to supporting the homeschool community.

One of the greatest privileges of my time at HSLDA was helping create and develop the Military Outreach Program, advocating for and equipping military-connected homeschool families navigating the unique challenges of military life and educational continuity.

In my role as a High School Educational Specialist, I also had the opportunity to encourage and equip families through conference speaking engagements across the United States and overseas in Germany, addressing topics related to homeschooling high school, college preparation, NCAA, educational transitions and training military branches on outreach to the homeschool community.

Although this chapter is changing, I look forward to continuing engagement with HSLDA through future contractor opportunities and collaborative efforts alongside the Military Homeschoolers Association. Military Homeschoolers Association

I remain passionate about strengthening support, resources, and advocacy for homeschool families, particularly within the military community.

❤️I am deeply grateful for the relationships, partnerships, and opportunities cultivated during my time with HSLDA. Serving families has always been at the heart of this work, and I look forward to continuing that mission moving forward.

🛎️All my military homeschooling support will be shifting under Military Homeschoolers Association.

➡️My email: [email protected]

➡️More details to come from HSLDA and MHA.

05/22/2026

Congratulations!!!! GIna Payton

05/19/2026

See you in Pennsylvania???

🎙𝘾𝙒𝘾310: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙎𝙑𝘼𝘽 - 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙠

Today is all about the ASVAB! What is the ASVAB, you say? It is the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Joining Ginger is Natalie Mack, homeschool mom, former military mom, and ASVAB proponent for discovering your student's interests and future path. This chat is informative, helpful, and chock full of information for anyone guiding their older student towards the next step in their journey. Bonus! CHAP is hosting the ASVAB at the convention this year in June! Don't miss this FREE opportunity for your 10-12 grade (and even up to 24 year old) students!

👉Watch podcast here: 🔗https://youtu.be/K8DjPphprzo

👍This track is FREE for teens and their parents.
ASVAB Registration link: 🔗https://forms.gle/mjfUP5npnhX4qXpe7

Natalie's hosting a Zoom Meeting to help explain this event. It will be held April 28th at 6:00pm:
🔗https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82833726866

For help with studying for the ASVAB, go to 🔗march2success.com

For more information about the ASVAB and how to help your student choose a career, go to 🔗asvabprogram.com

Convention registration is not required to participate, but if you want to join us for the whole weekend and attend convention, register here:
🔗conv.chaponline.com

Schedule for the day of the ASVAB test:
9:00- 11:00 ASVAB CEP test administered
11:00- 12-00 PTI (Post Test Interpretation)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:00 ASVAB Workshop
2:00 - 3:00 Natalie's Workshop "Military Service Pathways"

The ASVAB CEP (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Career Exploration Program) is the only comprehensive and completely no-cost career planning resource that empowers students nationwide to align their strengths, interests, and values with a post-secondary plan. The CEP involves three assessments: (a) the ASVAB, an aptitude test that estimates your capacity for academic and vocational endeavors; (b) the Find Your Interests (FYI) inventory, which identifies job activities you would like to perform; and (c) the Work Values Situational Judgment Activity (WV SJA), which identifies what you most value in, and desire to receive from, the work you do.

Following ASVAB administration (about 90 minutes), students will participate in a Post-Test Interpretation (PTI) session where they (a) learn what their ASVAB scores mean, (b) complete the FYI and WV SJA, and (c) begin to explore occupations (we link to more than 1,000 civilian and military careers through the Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network [O*NET]). Homeschool parents are encouraged to attend the PTI session.

ASVAB CEP is open to students in 10th grade and above (college students included). There is no obligation to military service or to speak to a recruiter. Indeed, students need not have any interest in the military whatsoever to participate in and benefit from ASVAB CEP.

Students need to be registered for testing, and they need to bring a laptop or Chromebook, and paper and pencil.

Your contact info will be given to the test providers.

05/12/2026

Maryland Families!!

05/10/2026

🌼🌺🌸 Happy Mother’s Day Milhomeschoolers!!!

05/07/2026

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Homeschool parents, you wear more hats than any teacher handbook could have prepared you for: instructor, curriculum director, recess monitor, lunch lady, and occasionally student (because somehow they always ask the question you don't know the answer to).

It's not always glamorous, but it's real, it's brave, and it matters more than you know. HSLDA is grateful to be in your corner all 365 days of the school year!

05/01/2026

Received answers to your ProGear questions:) 3:30 pm EST

📢 Military homeschool families — this one's for you!

We're going LIVE on Facebook to break down the NEW Pro Gear and Homeschool Supplies guidelines and what they mean for YOUR family.

🗓️ May 1, 2026
🕐 3:30pm Eastern Standard Time
📍 Here on our page

Save this post, set a reminder, and tag a fellow military homeschool parent who needs to see this. 👇