PREPARING TO HOST
All you really need to host a YFU student is the ability and desire to share your home and open your heart to a new family
member. Hosting is all about sharing your version of the American lifestyle with an exchange student.
Your ordinary life is extraordinary to an exchange student.
As a host family, you will receive the YFU Host Family Handbook and other orientation materials. They outline policies and
procedures and provide valuable information on what to expect and how to make your exchange experience successful.
You will also be invited to an orientation before your exchange student arrives, and then during your exchange, you will
be asked to attend 2-3 orientations. These typically occur on a weekend for a few hours each. At orientation, you will have
the opportunity to talk with local volunteers, meet other host families and their students and develop strategies to ensure
every member of the family gets the most out of your exchange.
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Hosting is the best thing we do as a family,
and we have changed many lives,
including our own.”