If you are in the United States and Home school I highly suggest a membership in HSLDA it isn't that much a month and as long as it isn't a custody issues with homeschooling they will get involved and fight for your home schooling rights You can join at this link https://hslda.org/
I agree, where I live there are also some really good local groups. Unfortunately, when I homeschooled my kids- there weren't any such groups so I had to fight CPS the whole time!
I started to respond to this earlier and couldn't because I had gotten hacked, but I have control of my account again. I wanted to Thank you for your battles with CPS, your battles and other peoples early battles for their right to home school has paved a way for an easier path for myself and many others. I also live in a place where we have a great home school community. We have proms and graduation ceremonies. Indiana is a great place to home school. I haven't had any issues with CPS and home schooling. Thankfully, but I have my own stories with CPS.