Organizations can tap into their alumni to help with outreach to recruit others with disabilities in their home countries.

• Do you not yet have alumni with disabilities? Contact Mobility International to find if there are FLEX or YES alumni with disabilities in the targeted country for recruitment or contact MIUSA's National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange for a video to help with a presentation. Then have your staff and volunteers learn about disability etiquette and tips to create a welcoming program. Also refer students, parents, host families and youth professionals to the three issues focusing on youth with disabilities in the A World Awaits You Online Magazines.
  
• Each year Mobility International USA conducts a Reentry Workshop for youth with disabilities from Eurasia and predominately Muslim countries who have studied for a year in the United States. These youth return home to encourage others with disabilities to seek out international experiences. Read about one student's experience in applying for the FLEX exchange program. Also read about the impact of the inbound and outbound high school exchange programs on youth with disabilities from the U.S. and abroad.
• Find someone from the disability community to be on your advisory committees, board of directors or as an intern or staff in your office. Read about the experiences of interns with disabilities and their supervisors at U.S. based exchange offices. For more information, read this booklet on recruiting and accommodating people with disabilities in internship or employment settings.
•  Exhibiting or networking at disability conferences is another way to expand one's pool of participants and hosts. These types of events can easily be found on special education, parent and youth with disabilities national clearinghouse websites. 

"I wanted to thank you again for inviting me to the PACER/ Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers event. I believe that it will really help us to connect with the group. During the evening, I also had two families - one in New Jersery and one in California - ask me about hosting YES students! What a wonderful experience!" Sanaa Nelson, AFS YES program specialist

• Also disability organizations websites often have listings by state, so that individual presentations by placement staff or volunteers could be arranged to find homestay families. Here's a few to get started:

1. National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
2. National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
3. The Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
4. National Youth Leadership Network
5. The Federation for Children with Special Needs
6. Exceptional Parent Magazine
7. Information on U.S. Disability-Specific Organizations

For information on finding participants in other countries, search the Disability Organizations Worldwide database for youth with disabilities organizations worldwide. For more ideas on how to plan international activities for youth with disabilities at summer camps, read about the NCDE's starting early initiative.