Seeking Host Families for Refugee Teens in One-Month Summer Program

Where: Montgomery County and other DMV areas convenient to Washington DC.   When: June 26 - July 26, 2020.    If you will have extra room in your home and heart this coming July, please consider becoming a summer host parent to a refugee high schooler who will be participating in RefAmerica.  Each refugee teen has been resettled with his/her family somewhere in the United States within the past three years through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.  You would welcome your refugee son or daughter into your home and family for a month (July 2020) as he/she participates with local Montgomery County (and surrounding area) youth in RefAmerica's cross-cultural leadership and public-speaking program in the nation’s capital.  Host families are also invited to participate in fun and interesting events.  RefAmerica provides participant refugees with the tools both to tell their stories and to help forge for themselves, their families and their fellow refugees – like generations of Americans before them – a new American story.  Please join RefAmerica, under fiscal sponsorship of sister program New Story Leadership, in fostering a warm American welcome for refugees. Host families will be asked to permit a background check and a home visit and to sign a hosting agreement. They will receive a RefAmerica program and hosting briefing.  Family settings with school or college-aged children are preferred but not required.  Please email refamericafoundation@gmail.com for further information.