Academic Year Program Host Opportunities

Kansas 4-H 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 currently is not hosting any students for the 2024-25 high school year. We hope to recruit and host two students during the 2025-26 academic 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, 2025, when students arrive from the national orientation until departure in mid-June, 2026. 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.