How are hosting families and YFU students matched up?
The first step is for family to complete an application and be interviewed by a YFU volunteer. Two references (not relatives) are required and YFU will ask the approval to contact both referees. Then, YFU volunteer will help the family chooses student, taking into consideration a number of factors to help make the best possible match. Variables include the family’s values, the kind of activities involved in (sports, arts, intellectual pursuits, etc) religious preferences, whether the family would prefer a student who is quiet or outgoing, what area of the world the family would prefer student to be from, and so forth. Hosting does require a period of adjustment for all family members and for student in the beginning. Common interests and values make that adjustment easier.
