Open your Heart to an AFS Student

If you are interested in more information, contact Happy, Robin or Jan regarding high school age students. Or click here to begin a Host Family Application

After you fill out the first page online, a link will be sent to you so that you may complete the application. In addition, each member of your family living in your home, aged 14 or older, will receive and e-mail regarding the mandatory criminal background check.

Hosting Eastern New York begins searching for host families in January, when applications from incoming students begin to arrive. We would be happy to talk to you about what hosting involves at ANY time! Our hosting process involves talking to you about your family's interests so that we can look for a student who shares some of those interests. If you wish, you may choose the gender of the student and the country that they come from. You will then be asked to fill out an application that includes references, have an in-home interview, and complete a criminal background check.

Our host family finding season ends in June so that we have time to process school acceptance papers before the end of the school year.
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