Youth Exchange | The Team

 

The YEO oversees the youth exchange program in a Rotary club. The YEO recruits volunteers, host families, inbounds and outbounds, while managing all the moving parts on a broad scale. The YEO works closely with the youth exchange team members and other club members who assist with various events like excursions such as sporting events trips to the zoo, host family orientation, student orientation, graduation party, etc. The YEO works closely with school officials, host families, inbounds and club members and also handles the required paperwork and its processing for inbound and outbound students.

 

The OC oversees the outbound students including presentations to the high schools in the fall, helping with the applications, organizing the preliminary interviews at the club level, recruiting correspondents, organizing practice student presentations, etc.

 

The HFC works closely with the host families throughout the year assisting the YEO with the student binders such as the traveling notebook, the host family binders, and assists with the host family interviews.

 

Every program needs a champion. The Club Ambassador is a strong voice of support and advocacy, a valuable source of experience, providing advice and guidance, helping establish the vision for the program.

 

The CC works one-on-one with an inbound student as their advocate and confidant throughout their entire exchange year which begins months before their arrival. The CC maintains regular contact with the student and host families and files monthly reports in the HUB.

 

The YPO is a North Star resource, providing advice on serious issues relating to safety or of a criminal nature.

 

A club member that agrees to communicate regularly with an outbound, usually monthly, and provides occasional reports at club meetings or submits updates to the newsletter. This is our primary method of connecting outbound students with our club. The OCC should spend time connecting with the student and family prior to departure and provide advice on exchange and reminders to utilize the Rotary network, especially the CO, for help with issues while abroad.

 

North Star volunteers, the COs coordinate exchanges with their counterparts overseas.

 

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