Frequently Asked Questions

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Why Be a Host Family?
Who Can Become a Host Family?
What Does ISE Ask of a Host Family?
How Can You Become a Host Family?
About the ISE Student:

Why Be a Host Family?

To provide your sons/daughters a unique cultural perspective and advantage, as well as a notable experience to refer to on applications for employment, colleges and universities. To learn about the customs, traditions, language and culture of another country. To teach your family to share its love and kindness with others. To promote world peace while “Educating tomorrow’s leaders” here in the U.S. as well as abroad. To experience firsthand the courage and tenacity necessary to complete a successful stay with the family of a foreign nation. To enrich and enlarge your “immediate family” and your community. To provide your family as well as a family in another country “the experience of a lifetime.” To make “friends for life” with people from another country.

Who Can Become a Host Family?

Traditional families, single parents, retirees, as well as empty nesters. All CAN HOST. It is not necessary to have children living at home. We do ask, in that case, that you be willing to help your student make friends with other local teens.

What Does ISE Ask of a Host Family?

ISE is looking for warm, loving, families who enjoy the idea of sharing their lives with a young person from another country. Our students do not need their own rooms. They can share with a child close to their own age and same sex. We ask that families give their exchange student the same care they would give their own child, to treat them as if they were their own new son or daughter.

How Can You Become a Host Family?

After you have expressed an interest in the program, one of our ISE representatives will come to your home and do a house visit. The representative will provide you with an application to complete. You will need to write a brief letter to the family of the student you have chosen to host. You as a family can pick the student with whom you would like to share your hearts and your home.

About the ISE Student:

Every ISE student is personally interviewed, screened, and evaluated by a representative in their home country. Every student is given an orientation prior to departing from their native country, to inform and prepare them for their stay in the US.