Open Your Heart and Home – Become a Homestay Host!
Homestay Family Agreement
The Homestay Family Agreement establishes clear expectations and responsibilities between host families and their guests to create a supportive and harmonious living environment.
Homestay Handbook
The Homestay Handbook serves as a comprehensive guide to help students and host families navigate daily life together, ensuring a comfortable, respectful, and enriching homestay experience.
BC Homestay Guidelines
The Homestay Guidelines outline essential rules and standards for both students and host families to follow, fostering a safe, respectful, and enjoyable living arrangement.
What is the Homestay Referral Program?
What it does
The Homestay Referral Program recognizes and rewards current host families who help recruit new families to host international students in the Kootenay Lake International Program.
Why it exists
Many host families join the program through personal referrals. To thank those who spread the word and support the program, we offer a $400 referral reward.
How it works
- The referring family contacts their Homestay Contractor with the referral information.
- The new family completes the Host Family Application and names the referring family.
- The new family undergoes the standard screening process:
- Home visit
- Signing the Host Family Agreement
- Submitting required documents
- Criminal Record Checks for all household members aged 19+
- Once approved and a student arrives in their home, the referring family receives $400 after the new host family successfully completes at least one month of hosting.
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