VPA programs include:

• IT training (with a focus on professional certifications), and other social programs to support disadvantaged individuals in Montgomery County, Maryland: "extraordinary efforts", Robert A. Duncan, Montgomery County Executive. This effort is conducted in cooperation with Linkages to Learning, an organization affiliated with Montgomery County

• IT training (with a focus on professional certifications) to support disadvantaged individuals in the Washington DC area. This effort is conducted in cooperation with Soleil IT Services, Inc., an IT consulting and training business specializing in web-based distance learning

• Vietnamese summer language school for the Vietnamese American youth in the Washington DC area by the Vietnamese Youth Education Association, already in its 29^th years of existence, with on-going support from VPA. . Check out what 320 youth did in the summer of 2006.

• Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference. The first conference was held in 1999. The third conference was organized in the summer of 2004. This is a joint effort by many organizations.

• A parnertship has been established with Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH) to (1) build schools to support the disadvantaged minorities in Vietnam, and (2) to establish a fund in view of providing scholarships for high school students in Vietnam. This second project is also supported by many Vietnamese Americans with the goal to help needy but academically qualified students in Vietnam. Ten small scholarships have been awarded to students in Hue for the 2006-07 academic year.

• Annual conferences on Vietnam since 1999. The aim is to promote a forum with the participation of leading experts to discuss key issues and alternatives with the purpose of supporting Vietnam's social and economic development. Cooperation with other organizations: l'Association des Techniciens Vietnamiens d'Outre-Mer (Paris, France), the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, The Office of International Programs of the University of Maryland and The Maryland - Vietnam Partnership. Dr. Robert A. Scalapino, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, is the Advisor and Honorary Program Chairman. The last conference on "Sustainable Development in Vietnam" was held on November 13, 2003, on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Holding similar conferences - but now in Vietnam - is also being planned.