¤ Educare's program ¤

¤ Educare's program ¤

The program EduCare only 10 years old, it was created in 1999 by AIFS (American Institute for Foreign Study).

This program is intended primarily for student (s) (Bac +2) with a good level of English wishing to study in an American college or university (business, marketing, psychology or art...) While the Pair in an American family.
Les départs se font donc soit en juillet-août, soit en novembre-décembre . Departures are therefore either in July-August, November-December.

Here is a summary provided on the website of the U.S. State Department:

The Au Pair program includes The EduCare component.
The EduCare component is only for families who have school-aged children and require childcare before and after school hours . Accordingly, au pairs participating in the EduCare component may not be placed with families having preschool children, unless alternative, full-time arrangements are in place for their supervision. The EduCare au pair may work no more than 10 hours per day, and a maximum of 30 hours per week . Au pairs participating in the EduCare component receive 75 percent of the weekly rate paid to au pairs . EduCare au pairs must complete a minimum of 12 hours of academic credit or its equivalent during the program year . The host family is required to provide (up to) the first $1,000 toward the cost of the au pair's required academic course work . Please refer to the regulations for details.

Regulation of the U.S. State Department is reproduced here with parties interested in the program EduCare.

22 CFR Sec. 62.31 Au Pairs (eff. Oct. 9, 2008)


Introduction. Au pairs participating in the EduCare program provide up to thirty hours of child care services per week and pursue not less than twelve semester hours of academic credit or its equivalent during their year of program participation.

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Conditions for au pairs

These same conditions as for the classic au pair program, but must also:

- Have a degree equivalent to Bac +2
- Have the license for at least 6 months
- Good level of English, enough to take courses at university

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Training on arrival and on-site monitoring

The ttraining is the same as that offered to the peer with the conventional program, and the follow-up.
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Reception conditions in the family

These are the same conditions as in the classic au pair program, which we must add this:

Au pair placement.
Sponsors shall secure, prior to the au pair's departure from the home country, a host family placement for each participant. Sponsors Shall Not:

* (3) An au pair participating in the EduCare program shall not be placed with a family having pre-school children in the home unless alternative full-time arrangements for the supervision of such pre-school children are in place.

Thus, the au pair educare can not be placed in a family with (a) child (ren) not in school (s) or "native", unless a type of care for this (these) child (s) has been established.

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Contract" the au pair

Salary and schedule

Wages and hours. Sponsors shall require that au pair participants:

* (1) EduCare participants shall be compensated at a weekly rate that is 75% of the weekly rate paid to non-EduCare participants ;

* (2) EduCare participants may not provide more than 10 hours of child care per day or more than 30 hours of child care in any one week.


* (3) Receive a minimum of one and one half days off per week in addition to one complete weekend off each month


* (4) Receive two weeks of paid vacation .


Classes

Educational component. Sponsors must:

* (1) Require that during their initial period of program participation , all EduCare au pair participants complete not less than 12 semester hours (or their equivalent) of academic credit in formal educational settings at accredited US post-secondary institutions. As a condition of program participation, host family participants must agree to facilitate the enrollment and attendance of au pairs in accredited US post secondary institutions and to pay the cost of such academic course work in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for EduCare au pair participants.

The Educare au pair must attend courses in an institution of higher education, up to 12 credits or its equivalent. These 12 credits do not correspond to a specific number of hours, but this is typically a few hours per week (3-10 hours).
For the au pair can attend these courses, the host family must repay up to $ 1,000.

The classes available range from:

- Business and marketing, international relations, economy
- Informatic, creating web sites, presentation of Windows 95 and Internet
- Career development, training for interviews, preparing CVs
- Education and Psychology, Child Development
- Preparation for the TOEFL, practice pronunciation, Spanish, French
- Art, music, dance, film studies
- Writing and Communication, journalism, intercultural communication

NB : The website of French American Center (Au Pair in America), we see that the investments are not made anywhere in the USA.

The placement service will be one of eight locations on the East Coast of the United States, although there will be some investments in other places. Participants will give three preferences, but the investment required can not be guaranteed.

On their website, we find the list of places and universities.