Youth Protection

Coordinates international exchange experiences for high school students as part of the RI Youth Exchange. Arriving students are hosted and others are selected to participate.

Why Join:   It’s a small effort each year that changes the life of a few high school students, forever.     More importantly, the “ripple effect” world-wide is extraordinary.  Join the committee and find out why.

What do we do:  Our job is to manage:

  1. Our “outbounds”:   do outreach and interviews to identify 2 or 3 juniors who can act as ambassadors for our Club and our County for their Junior year in High School. 
  2. Our “inbounds” Monitor our “inbound” from another country as he/she immerses in his/her junior year in a San Jose Unified High School
  3. The interface with our Rotary District to find other Rotary Clubs to “adopter” our 2nd and 3rd choice as a result of our interview process.

Time Commitment:

We have 5 or 6 “call in” meetings a year.   These generally last 30 minutes and typically occur at 5pm. 

We have an annual “YEC Brunch” in August where we welcome our “inbound” and say goodbye to our “outbound”.  Our host family and our outbounds families attend too.

Late September through October involves a time commitment of 3 evenings (1 to 2 hours) and a Saturday morning.  

  • Evening #1:  School District outreach meeting.  Usually at Willow Glen High School.  interested High school Students from all over the District attend to find out more about the program and the application Process
  • Evening #2:  Each committee member reviews the applications individually and ranks them (this takes about an hour or two on your own time)
  • Evening #3:  The committee meets by phone to review the rankings and create a “short list” of 6 to 8 students who we bring in for formal interviews.
  • Saturday:  The committee blocks out 3 to 4 hours to complete individual, 30 minute interviews, with each of the short list applicants and their parents.

 There is some individual follow up as some committee members volunteer to check in as the “counselor” to our inbound or outbound.   Likewise, some of our committee members have hosted an inbound.  And some of our committee members will invite our “inbound” for dinner or a Sharks game, or some family activity.  If you are interested. Reach out to Carl  Salas at carl@salasobrien.com

Links

OnLine Youth Protection Awareness Training

OnLine Youth Protection Certification Training

District Youth Forms for Policies and Guidlines

Is A Club Member Certified? Search: Club: San Jose

Club Status

Files

Youth Protection Requirements By Committees

Youth Protection Certification Instructions

Youth Protection Agreement for Groups

Youth Protection Agreement for Individuals

Youth Protection Agreement for Individuals

YP Interview Questions

YP Reference Check Questions

Live Scan Form for Finger Printing

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Nanci Klein
City of San Jose Budget and the Arts
Apr 3rd 2024 12:15 pm
More info

The Rotary Club of San Jose

Administrative Office
Gordon House
1690 Senter Road
San Jose, CA 95112

Contact us

Office: 408-297-6100
Office Hours
M-TH: 7:30 - 4:30
Friday: 7 - 1

Weekly meeting address

Rotary Summit Center
88 S. 4th St.
7th Floor
San Jose, CA
Lunch $25 (order lunch by Monday at noon)

Social Media links

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