Welcome both itsbmarie and jba8280,

I am also "North of the Lake". I am not aware of any particular parents group outside of the group lagifted.org which is I think more of a public school advocacy group. You might try there. I think we get our support from these forums. If you are new, you will soon understand why. You can also send PMs, if you want to talk about more specifics so you are not announcing to the world everything about you and your kid.