Academic Year Program Host Opportunities
Kansas 4-H also participates in the Academic Year Program (AYP) where high school students from Eurasia, Eastern Europe, Japan, and South Korea spend 10 1/2 months living with a Kansas family and attend high school from August to June each year. Kansas 4-H is currently hosting two students for the 2023-24 high school year.
This program offers opportunities to expose families, schools and communities to youth of other cultures and countries in an in depth relationship that can last a lifetime. Families with teen 4-H members are ideal to share their high school and 4-H experience with an Academic Year student, but there are no requirements for a host sibling in the family.
The program will begin around August 1, 2024, when students arrive from the national orientation until departure in mid-June, 2025. Families and student are supported by a well-managed program with a local 4-H coordinator, state coordinator and national Academic Year Program (AYP) manager who assure positive youth development and Federal Visa Regulations are observed.
To apply or for more information about country choices, contact Jennifer Pfortmiller, Interim Coordinator, at 620-786-5845 or email her at sjpfortmiller@hotmail.com.
Kansas 4-H is currently looking for a new Academic Year Program Coordinator to begin for the 2024-25 school year. for details contact Deryl Waldren, dwaldren@ksu.edu; 303-349-7403.
