Academic Year Program Host Opportunities
Kansas 4-H also participates in the Academic Year Program (AYP) where high school students from 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.
To apply or for more information about country choices, contact Allison Lecklider, Coordinator, at 785-822-5125 or email her at allisonlecklider@yahoo.com.
