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Our Mission Statement

The NSHEA represents a growing number of families committed to quality education of their children at home.

The purpose of the organization is:

  1. to safeguard the rights of homeschooling families,
  2. to promote the awareness of homeschooling within the province, and
  3. to represent their interests at provincial and local levels.

We welcome your support in achieving these goals.

NSHEA is non-denominational and inclusive. It represents families that have a wide variety of reasons for educating their children at home and use many diverse methods to accomplish their goals.

Executive Contact

For general comments, please email  contact@nshea.ca

NSHEA Executive:

Chair: Lisa Pattison              chair1@nshea.ca  
Chair 2 - Communcations Jeanette Seward         chair2@nshea.ca
Chair 3 - Events Rebecca Woodside     chair3@nshea.ca
Secretary      
 Melanie Mulrooney      secretary@nshea.ca
Treasurer/Membership Melanie McCulloch      treasurer@nshea.ca

Position Descriptions:

Chair 1: Responsible for calling our meetings, running the meetings and ensuring that we follow our mandate in our deliberations and decisions. Responsible for communication between the NSHEA and all Nova Scotia home schooling groups, will also attends an annual meeting with the Nova Scotia Regional Education Officer.    
Chair 2 - Communications Oversees outgoing communication from the NSHEA including supervising the newsletter, the website developer, the E-news and any other communication to membership.

Chair 3 - Events
Oversees the planning of the AGM and other NSHEA events throughout the year.
Secretary: Responsible for taking minutes at meetings, distributing them to the executive and newsletter editor to pass on to general membership, receiving paperwork and correspondence for NSHEA, filing and organizing correspondence, drafting outgoing correspondence.
Treasurer/Membership:  Responsible for maintaining the bank account and all disbursements, financial reporting, and maintaining the membership database.
Member at Large Works with NSHEA members on an individual level, acting as the first point of contact for the Association. She can field and answer questions on the assoc. behalf. The member at large can conduct hot topic surveys and keep the Assoc. abreast of the concerns of NS homeschooling families.

Email the executive with any NSHEA concerns or questions. We check this email address at least once a week. Please be aware you may not receive an immediate reply.

Executive Intranet This is the virtual office of the NSHEA Executive.  Internal business is run  though this web environment.