"What precedence does this set? It's not a healthy placement ... it's unconscionable," said Danielle Grijalva, director of CSFES, who recently founded the committee after observing questionable practices as a former area representative for a foreign exchange student placement organization. "I would not have had any of my students placed in the home of a convicted felon. I would not want to live in the home of a convicted felon."
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"The student is still there at the request of the student's family, whom are fully apprised of all the facts," he said.The issue of safety for foreign exchange students in the U.S. is at the forefront since the U.S. State Department recently came out with new proposed guidelines to enforce sex offense background checks for potential hosts. But CSFES and host parents like Sally Smith say the guidelines don't go far enough and are demanding full criminal background checks for potential hosts.
"Kids should not be used to rehabilitate adults who've made poor judgments," said Smith, an attorney from San Diego, Calif. who has hosted eight foreign exchange students over the years. "Criminal background checks are crucial for the protection of all children."The proposed guidelines are currently being reviewed after a 60-day discussion period but even if approved, still would not have prevented the 16-year-old Japanese girl, who's identity has not been released, from being placed in the home of her host father. That's because the guidelines call for a background check for sex offenses only and the host father was convicted of burglary in 1994. He was eventually sentenced to 144 months, three years of which he spent in a Georgia prison. The man is currently on parole until July 2006.
Even with his criminal record, this is not the first time the host father has opened his home to foreign exchange students. F.A.C.E. has acknowledged in various media reports that they have placed other foreign exchange students in the St. Augustine man's home and that Moss knew of the man's criminal record prior to the placements.
"There's a lot of misinformation that's been thrown around [regarding the Japanese girl and F.A.C.E.," said John Hishmeh, executive director for CSIET (Council on Standards for International Educational Travel), a national non-profit that oversees more than 80 foreign exchange student program organizations. "Those that are directly involved all know and no one is still complaining except for the outsiders."
This year alone, more than 4,700 Japanese high school exchange students will visit the U.S. In total about 28,000 high school exchange students visit the U.S. each year. According to the U.S. State Department, the number of reported cases of abuse is very low, only five cases of alleged abuse in the past 10 years.
Smith has also had her share of concerns. In 2003 then 16-year-old Thai student Mary Vattanasiriporn had been attending the same high school as Smith's daughter Jessica. It was when Jessica informed Smith of Mary's horrible living conditions that Smith decided to take action and take Mary into her own home.
Hishmeh and those in the foreign student exchange community believe the current concern of alleged abuse cases has been blown out of proportion although he believes foreign exchange students need to feel safe.
CSIET and organizations like EF Foundation believe they are taking active steps in promoting safety for foreign exchange students by supporting the State Department's proposed guidelines. The CSIET board recently endorsed the proposals and plan to bring the issue before the 80 international youth exchange organizations they represent at their national convention this week.
But for Grijalva and Smith, they question why the State Department, CSIET, and the various foreign student exchange organizations are not joining them in their efforts to demand a full criminal background check for potential hosts.
The following was written by former International Student Exchange (ISE USA) exchange student Merel Revet of the Netherlands: ISE USA is a designated sponsor of the U.S. Department of State and is on the Advisory List of CSIET.
Danielle Grijalva, founder of an organizations that stands up for exchange students in unwanted situations, calls it human trafficking, but legal. 23.550 teenagers from all over the world chose an American adventure in the year 2019. They took the step to live with an American host family for a semester or the entire schoolyear.
In February 2020 an EF worker, who was responsible for the screening and approving of host families, was arrested for the sexual abuse of three minor exchange students from Europe. The man worked for EF in the state of Iowa and hosted several students in his own home. The majority of exchange students end up in save situations, but once they are under the responsible of an exchange coordinator who is only focused on making money, they can end up in unwanted/unsafe situations. Dutch organizations American partner Travel Active AYUSA PAX Into ISE Forte AFS AFS USA STS STS Foundation Greenheart Aspect CIEE EF EF USA Interlanguage Refuses to collaborate in this research. There is no way to find out which American organizations are collaborating with Interlanguage Netherlands Exchange organizations in the Netherlands All around the world, you can find exchange organizations that provide exchange programs for young adults to go abroad for a long period of time. The Netherlands counts six exchange organizations and the Rotary also has an exchange program. Together, the organizations are sending 370 Dutch students per year to the United States for a high school year program.
According Danielle Grijalva, founder of CSFES, this is happening because of the shortage of host families and the fact that exchange organizations are making millions of dollars. Some local representatives receive a financial bonus of $1000 per student that is placed in a family. A lot of these coordinators will place a student in a random family, just to receive the money.
Screening of host families All the (Dutch) organizations promise on their website that the student will be placed in a well-screened host family. The screening is the responsibility of the American partner and has to meet a number of things. The family has to fill out a bunch of paperwork, there is a criminal background check, the families have to deliver some references and there is a (planned) home visit. The exchange organizations in the Netherlands know the big lines about the screening, but they are not able to give any details about how it works exactly. Spokesmen from EF and AFS confirm to fully trust their coworkers in the United States.
The student can find a new family itself or he/she will be send home. The interest of host families and exchange organization workers are more important than the interest of the student itself. The organization has already received the thousands of Dollars for the student, who is already in the United States.
Boatright, 50, worked as an independent contractor for EF High School Exchange Year, an organization that promotes student exchange programs. And according to the organization, children were removed from Boatright's home when allegations against him surfaced.
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