Be a host family to a high school exchange student

EARN SCHOLARSHIPS TO CONTINUE YOUR FAMILY'S ENRICHING INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

AYA Host Families can earn scholarships for high school study or travel abroad: college or travel vouchers, high school programs.

One of the advantages of hosting or enrolling an AYA student is access to the AIFS family of programs. AIFS offers a world of study abroad opportunities open to high school, pre-college and college students. In addition, AIFS's sister organization, the American Council for International Studies (ACIS), offers short-term travel programs for students, teachers and adults. AYA host families and high schools can redeem scholarships toward any of the AIFS or ACIS study or travel abroad programs described here. Your teen can, in turn, spend a rewarding semester abroad.

AMERICAN YOUTH ABROAD - American high school students can spend an academic year, semester, winter break or summer living with a host family abroad. Students attend a high school (where applicable) and are assigned a local coordinator for assistance during their stay. Programs are available in Austria, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.

	hosted for a year	hosted for a semester
Academic year in France	$1000	$500
Germany, Chile, Ecuador, the Netherlands or Spain summer, semester or winter break	$500	$500

Spend a year in Germany for Free!

The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX) is a government sponsored grant awarded to US high school age students to study for 12 months in Germany while living with a volunteer host family. The goal of the program is to help participants expand their global awareness to all elements of the German culture (social, political, and economic) in addition to learning a language, making lifelong friendships and memories and having the adventure of a lifetime! Find out more!

For further information or for an American Youth Abroad catalog, please call 1-800-727-2437, ext. 5164 or visit http://www.academicyear.org/aya_out/

AIFS COLLEGE PROGRAMS

THE AIFS College Division offers vast opportunities for students interested in earning college credit (granted at the discretion of the home college). Students live in dormitories or with host families while they study in an international environment. Looks great on a college resume!

	hosted for a year or semester
College semester	$500
College academic year	$1000

AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES - ACIS specializes in teacher-organized trips abroad. Open to students, teachers and adults, these nine to 42 -day trips to Europe, Asia and Australia offer insight into international cultures and are especially appropriate for first-timers abroad. ACIS Summer Advantage offers summer campus-based and adventure travel programs for high school students.

Discount on ACIS teacher-organized trips
hosted a year	hosted a semester
$125 per program week to a maximum of $1000	$125 per program week to a maximum of $500

Discount on ACIS Summer Advantage trips: $250

Students under 18 years of age participating on a travel program with ACIS must travel with an adult chaperone, except on ACIS Summer Advantage programs. Students may sign up independently on programs 28 days or longer in length and ACIS will assign a chaperone to them. If a student under 18 wishes to travel on an ACIS travel program is less than 28 days in length, he/she is responsible for finding his/her own chaperone. For further information or for an ACIS catalog, call 1-800-888-2247 or visit the ACIS website.

HOST FAMILY TRAVEL VOUCHERS - AYA offers an option to families who have hosted for two or more consecutive years. Repeat families can choose either a scholarship or a travel voucher. Consecutive repeat families who hosted an AYA semester student can receive a voucher for $250 to be used toward the cost of a round-trip airline ticket to the country of any student hosted. Consecutive repeat families who hosted an AYA full-year student can receive a voucher for $500 to be used toward the cost of a round-trip airline ticket to the country of any student hosted. Travel vouchers have no cash value.

Follow the links above to learn more about these AIFS programs.

Please note these terms and conditions. For further information, call (800) 322-4678 and ask for our Program Development & Benefits Coordinator.

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