News & Events

Seven Questions for Andrew Towne - Volunteer, Alumnus, and Host of a New Year’s Gala to Benefit YFU USA.

Youth For Understanding has launched the second annual worldwide online video contest for YFU program participants, past and present.  The theme of the contest will be "My World of YFU".

Students, parents and teachers are invited to join YFU Admissions staff for a Virtual Information Night describing our international exchange programs!

We are proud to announce the winners in the YFU USA Photo Contest and YFU Story Contest.

In October, after the YFU International Conference the winner was announced – it’s an original song sang and performed by Sharon from Fremont, CA who went to Japan in 2008.

Get YFU gear for the holidays and save 15% on your entire order.

Enter your original video and you will have a chance to win an all-expense-paid international exchange program from the U.S. Department of State!

DANVILLE — When Richard and Susan Drake’s third son out of four left for college this fall, they didn’t waste any time in filling up their household with more high-school-age boys.

HANGING ROCK — It seems as daunting a task as tracking down that proverbial needle. Try to find the exchange student who lived with your husband and his family when he was a student 32 years ago at Rock Hill High School.

Conny and Thomas Meeka of Gaylord were attending a family reunion in Indiana last summer when Thomas was approached by a cousin who was regional director of Youth for Understanding USA (YFU), a program that matches foreign exchange students with host families.