SEA: Student Exchange Alliance

WHY JOIN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE

Why Join International Youth Exchange and see the Difference of SEA?

Join the International Youth Exchange family and experience the Quality of students, host families, representatives and programming. Join us and see the difference a quality program can make for your Hosting Experience.

WHY JOIN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE Reasons to EXPERIENCE HOSTING

Personal interest for a great new “Cultural Experience” due to benefits for their own children
Widen perceptive to learn different cultures though an educational and cultural experience due to personal connection with someone from another country
HELP the world community experience the true America
Loved their personal “Hosting Experience” as a family and/or exchange student

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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE “Hosting Experience” is Positive and Beneficial

Family learning experience provided benefits not only culturally but also socially
Family gained a new perspective on its own country and culture through its exchange student’s perceptions
Hosting was especially beneficial in terms of enhancing its own family setting, such as making new extended families, and having more interaction and mutual respect as a family.
Family’s received cultural experiences due to interaction and exposure to other cultures and customs

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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE Qualifications of a Host Family

Host family basic qualifications must be meet in order to host an exchange student. It is vitally important to understand these qualifications and ensure that a host family can meet them before they begin hosting.

English spoken in the home as the primary language
Exchange student must have their own bed, may share a bedroom with a host sibling of the same sex and no more than 5 years difference between them
All members of the family should agree to host an exchange student
Families must not consume excessive amounts of alcohol, or tolerate the abuse of alcohol or drugs among their children or other young people
Families must express a religious tolerance and a willingness to cooperate with the student in the practice of his or her own beliefs
Families must be aware of the responsibilities and prepared to make the commitment of hosting
Families should be financially stable and solvent
Single men and women may qualify as a “host family” if a student and natural family accept this type of placement
Family members must be in good health, without physical or mental disabilities that might interfere with the hosting responsibilities

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IMPORTANT: The most critical step is the matching of the host family and the foreign exchange student, interest and life style.

Therefore, SEA asks each interested family to complete a preliminary host family application, under NO COMMITMENT, in order for the Representative to proceed with a group of students for a perspective host family to review based on your family’s interests and lifestyle.

In this process, with the guidance of your experienced Local Representative, you will select your new son/daughter. Only then does the placement process begin.

Please CLICK HERE to complete the CONFIDENTIAL Preliminary Host Family application.

Visit our CONTACT PAGE to complete your preferred way of contact. When we receive your request, you will be contacted and with no obligation. We appreciate your interest in learning more about SEA Member Programs and exchange.

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