{"id":10798,"date":"2023-07-03T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2023-07-03T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T15:31:02","slug":"be-a-home-away-from-home-host-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2023\/07\/03\/be-a-home-away-from-home-host-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Home Away From Home host family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of International Students &amp; Visiting Scholars is looking for families in the Abilene community who are interested in being a Home Away From Home host family for our international students for the upcoming school year. To clarify, HAFH is NOT a homestay program, nor are there any financial obligations involved. It is simply a program designed to connect our international students with a local family who will meet with them, at minimum, once a month to provide our international students with a first hand experience of what it\u2019s like to be a part of an American family and to have a place that they can call home away from home. You can find out more about the program on our <a href=\"https:\/\/acu.edu\/office-of-international-students-and-visiting-scholars\/international-student-services\/student-activities\/home-away-from-home\/\">website<\/a>. If you are interested or know of a family who might be, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:veronica.summers@acu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">veronica.summers@acu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of International Students &amp; Visiting Scholars is looking for families in the Abilene community who are interested in being a Home Away From Home host family for our international students for the upcoming school year. To clarify, HAFH is NOT a homestay program, nor are there any financial obligations involved. It is simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions\/10799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}