The session you will learn how to teach Youth Exchange Alumni the benefits of staying involved in Rotary post exchange. And how to remain in the great Rotary family, until one day they may become Rotarians. Facilitators: Ekki Musick, Sue Goldsen, Sarah Tuberty, and Sarah Merredew

1. Cultivating Youth
Exchange Alumni as
Rotary Leaders
Ekkehard Musick D1800

2. 2018 YEO Preconvention
aSteps of Cultivation
acc. To Vincent van Gogh

3. 2018 YEO Preconvention
aOur Production Risks
 corn falls on stone &
rocks
 corn falls on path
 corn falls under
thorns & bushes
 birds pick some corn
 sometimes the sun is
too hot or the nights
are too cold

4. 2018 YEO Preconvention
aOur Production Risks
part II
 Poor Quality Corn:
applicants unfit with
little resilience
host families with
ethno centric views
further problems
Poor sowing:
little attention,
monitoring of
exchange

5. 2018 YEO Preconvention
• Per Year: ca. 8,000 YEers
LTEP, STEP, F2F, Camps
• Per Year: 20,000 – 24,000 HFs
Minus: multiple HFs, single HP
Minimum: 15,000 ! p.a. close to US
 How many siblings? Friends?
Our Corn
What is our potential?

6. 2018 YEO Preconvention
• Thorough Debriefing
• Regular returnees
• Evaluation, options open to them
• Early returnees
• Reasons, help to understand & overcome
possible traumata
• Not necessarily failure
Our Corn
What happens with the young plants?

7. 2018 YEO Preconvention
Our Corn
…Needs Water and Fertilizer to Grow
 Welcome Home by Rotary ( need to talk and
someone ready/willing to listen)
 Offer to get training for further engagement
with our YE Programmes
 RYLA Seminar invitations
 First jobs under supervision
 More responsibility; increased mutual trust

8. 2018 YEO Preconvention
Our Corn
And here´s some high speed fertilizer:
 ROTEX Movement
 Different understanding of “Rotex“
 District based Rotex organization
 Basic understanding of both sides: district and Rotex
Acceptance of procedures, rules, do´s and
don´ts
Training
 First Aid
 Example German JuLeiCa (roughly translated:
Youth Group Leaders Certificate)
 Rotary Values

9. 2018 YEO Preconvention
• Need Data Base (where have the alumni moved? What
competence have they aquired in job or at university)
• Have I kept contact (min. 1 meeting p.a. with interesting
program; Rotary topics? Rotary top speakers?)
Ready For Harvest?

10. 2018 YEO Preconvention
• Examples of top Rotex Leaders` Engagement:
 Rotex 1800 Founders
 Weekends for Inbounds and Outbounds (Do´s &
Don´ts)
 Candle light talk on weekends
Training Prevention of “Abuse & Harassment”
Harvest Festival

11. 2018 YEO Preconvention
• Eurotour
• Planning (TTP) and Organization (finances,
insurance,etc.)
• Equipment Tour Guides, “Touries”
• Handbook (yearly evaluation)
• Crisis Reaction
• Home relay
• Home doctor
• Brussels Bombs, serious illness
Harvest Festival
Part II

12. 2018 YEO Preconvention
• The YE Alumni have stayed close to Rotary
• They have taken over responsible jobs in YE Team
• Trust between Rotary and the Rotex Volunteers
• Increased Competence
• Rotaractors after Rotex
• Dedicated young Rotarians
Harvest Festival
Part III

13. 2018 YEO Preconvention
Cultivating Youth
Exchange Alumni as
Rotary Leaders
PDG Sue Goldsen, D 6400

14. 2018 YEO Preconvention
•High School
•College
•Work force
CHALLENGESSTUDENTS RETURN AND WE LOSE THEM TO

15. 2018 YEO Preconvention
•Invite them to return for program
•Invite them to help with a project
•Engage them in a Rotaract,
especially a community-based
club
•Invite them to help with future
students
CLUBS & DISTRICTS
WHAT CAN THEY DO?