Host an International High School Exchange Student (Celina, TX)

About the role

ERDT/SHARE! is a global non-profit educational foundation that has been providing international student exchange services to host families and international teens since 1974. The program seeks caring individuals and families to host international exchange students for a semester or a full school year.

Responsibilities

• Open your home to a high school exchange student and treat them as a true member of your family.
• Support the student’s experience of American family life and attendance at the local high school.
• Encourage sharing of the student’s own culture and traditions.

Requirements

• Host families must have a caring heart and a stable home.
• Welcome students aged 14–18 from countries including France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Japan, South Korea, China, Brazil, Mexico, and many others.
• Accept diverse family structures: two-parent families (with or without children), single parents, single adults, retired couples, empty nesters.
• Students arrive with English proficiency, comprehensive medical insurance, personal spending money, and have been carefully screened.

To learn more or view available student profiles, contact us today: 800-941-3738 • sharesouthwest.org/contact