SEA, Student Exchange Alliance

ABOUT the SEA Alliance

 

Learn “About the SEA Alliance” and the Student Exchange Host Family Cultural Experiences.

EA, Student Exchange Alliance stands for the Quality of Exchange Students, Host Families, Representatives, and Coordinators.

SEA, Student Exchange Alliance International Youth Exchange stands for Quality

of Student, Host Family, Representatives and Programming.

Student Exchange Alliance LLC (SEA) is a Nevada corporation. The Operations Office of SEA is located in Tipton, Indiana. Gene Lewis is the founder and managing partner of the SEA Group. SEA Alliance Members are cross cultural educational foreign exchange student programs. The select group of SEA Alliance Programs has over 50 local offices throughout the United States and Canada. The SEA Alliance of Programs facilitates over 3000 international students each year to the USA. The SEA Alliance maintains the highest standards and expectations in the student exchange industry.
The dedication of the SEA Alliance is to market, promote, increase awareness and spread the positives of student exchange. SEA believes this student exchange immersion of foreign students into true American family life sends home an Ambassador for America. Each student having a cultural immersion experience will increase around the world their knowledge of the true American and its people, customs that are different from their own.
SEA Alliance members are responsible for the welfare of the students participating in their program. Each program member provides guidance and support to their students, their host families, their local representatives, and their local school throughout the international exchange students’ stay in the United States. SEA Alliance Programs provide financial support for all, including full coverage medical, liability, and accidental death insurance and return airfare upon completion of the program.

Gene Lewis, SEA Founder

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From Hawaii to Maine, you can expect the high standards of excellence from all SEA Program Members.

QUALITY IS WHAT SETS SEA OUT AS THE LEADER IN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE

All INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE Programs are not alike, the U.S. Department of State and CSIET (Council on Standards for International Educational Travel) mission of  identifying QUALITY and reputable INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE programs, to promote INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE, and to provide leadership and support to the exchange and education communities so that youth are provided with meaningful and safe international youth exchange experiences.

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SEA ALLIANCE MEMBER PROGRAMS ARE ACCREDITED AND CERTIFIED

All the SEA Alliance Member Programs has been evaluated and found to comply with CSIET and DOS Standards.
It is intended to help HOST FAMILIES and YOUTH identify reputable programs.

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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGES

Most Important Factors of Exchange Are:

• Quality of Students
• Quality of Host Families
• Quality of Representatives
• Quality of Programming

When INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE students are placed in the correct timeline; you have a bonding time for the host family and their new son/daughter by:

• Sharing of house rules
• Learn about each others expectations
• Interesting facts about the school and community
• Able to really get to know each other
• Many other little things important to a great experience

The INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE programs that are in Alliance with SEA are monitored and verified to be placing quality students, in quality homes, by quality representatives, with quality programming and by complying with the guidelines of CSIET and the DOS.

The INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE programs that SEA represents are a limited number of highly selected programs, therefore it is able to commit and dedicate itself to the superior quality all INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE families have a right to when sending their children to a host family in the US.

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