New Foundation Focuses on Keeping Young People Safe Abroad
A new nonprofit foundation has formed to help protect the safety of millions of young people who travel and study abroad every year. ClearCause™ Foundation is focused on solving problems within the US $17 billion youth-travel, exchange and study abroad industry without government regulations, including the lack of federal oversight for organizations entrusted to care for youth and students overseas.
“There are literally thousands of youth travel, study-abroad and student-exchange programs, but virtually no government oversight or federally mandated safety standards regarding their operations – most importantly, how they handle a crisis involving a child,” said Sheryl Hill. She founded ClearCause with her husband Allen as a result of their son’s death during a People to People Student Ambassador trip to Japan in 2007.
“As host family to eight Internationals, we value the opportunity to reach across borders for global interchange. Travel and study abroad can and should be a wonderful experience for a young person, but there are inherent risks and failures in this self-governed industry that must be addressed,” said Allen &Sheryl Hill, who are also founders of ClearCause™ Coalition, 501c4 nonprofit, a growing alliance of parents, students, educators, and responsible members of the international youth travel, foreign exchange and study abroad industry.
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