Every Monday, ICAN hosts Vietnamese-language Story Time at our Family Resource Center to support early learning and development. Through interactive stories that introduce shapes, colors, and numbers, children strengthen language and cognitive skills in a fun and engaging way. Each session also includes arts and crafts activities that help build fine motor skills.

Join 1000 Books Before Kinder, a culturally sensitive reading program for children in our community to create and reach reading goals while also participating in cultural history lessons. For children 5 and under!

Happy 5 is a 6-week public education program with parenting workshops focused on encouraging safe and nurturing parenting techniques, bridging cultural gaps, and promoting discussion of child abuse/neglect to help children gain maximum development in the first five years.

SEEDS (Sensitive, Encouragement, Education, Development through Self Image) is a workshop geared towards Vietnamese speaking parents to educate them about the importance of a child’s developing years (ages 0-5) and prepare them with the necessary tools to help their child succeed in the American education system.

Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) is a workshop that educates Vietnamese speaking parents about positive discipline and building healthy parental relationships, with the added challenge of raising children in America and still keeping traditional values.

ICAN Read & Play is a fun and enriching program designed to bring families together through reading, creativity, and play. With a mix of engaging children’s activities, access to our ICAN Mini Library, and time spent in our outdoor playground, families can enjoy quality time while building early literacy skills.

Join us every last Thursday of the month! Family Time is a safe, creative, and bonding experience for families; encourage children’s creativity, confidence, and family connection through music, group games, and interactive family time.

Apply for our scholarship program for high school and undergraduate college students in the communities in the South Bay. We aim to award ICAN INSPIRE scholarships of a maximum of $4000 for 4 years for full-time undergraduate students at an accredited 4-year university ($1000 per year up to 4 years) or for community college ($500 per year up to 4 years).

The summer internship is for high school or college students who are not only proactive and willing to learn on the job but also want to give back to the community. Students will be working first-hand with the staff of ICAN to work on childcare and youth development programs, community projects, and other events that benefit our community.

ICAN is funded by Santa Clara County to provide services that will help prevent human trafficking and gender-based violence in the Vietnamese speaking community through community education and awareness that includes a needs assessment, training (staff, other community based organizations, community partners, youth leaders, parent workshops, and community outreach and educational workshops.

Our Parent Cafe program is a series of guided workshops that discuss a new topic in each session, designed to nurture the spirit of family. This is a peer-to-peer learning process that fosters meaningful relationships while empowering participants to exercise healthy practices.

A 6-week program with parenting workshops focused on understanding ages and stages of adolescent development, identifying domestic violence, problem solving skills, and improving communication with their teenagers to move toward a healthy relationship.

The Homelessness Prevention System (HPS) program provides financial assistance (e.g. rent, deposit, or utilities payment) to low-income families or individuals who are struggling to maintain their housing.

Tune in every Saturday from 3:00-3:30 PM on the 1500 AM radio to hear about topics ranging from school readiness to your child's health. Live shows are scheduled on the first Saturday of each month.

Designed to provide a safe environment and clinical support needed to assist Vietnamese women, including survivors of domestic violence, in sharing, reframing, and addressing issues related to parenting, marriage, relationship, safety, and more.

ICAN and San José are addressing the digital divide through the Digital Inclusion Partnership.

Tech Hubs are welcoming spaces offering FREE services such as:

• Computer labs

• Digital skills training

• Internet access

ICAN provides scholarship to orphans and poor students in Vietnam to help them obtain the education that would help them brighten their future. Pictured are three young doctors (Hải Đăng, Thiện Hảo, and Đặng Thị Thu Hằng) currently working in major hospitals in Hue, Vietnam who nearly dropped out of school due to the difficult circumstances of their families. ICAN chose to help and empowered these children to fulfill their dreams! The happy graduates are joined by Ms. Nga Ivy Vuong (second from the right) representing the ICAN DREAM Scholarship Program.

This program engages students in the US to raise money to buy bikes for disadvantaged children in Vietnam so they can get to school and complete their education. This project provides an opportunity for Vietnamese-American students to give back and to connect to their cultural roots.

ICAN provides free cataract surgeries to poor elders in Vietnam so they can continue to be the foundation of love, guidance, and support for their families, especially their grandchildren.

ARISE is a research project aimed at studying the effects of multi-level discrimination on cognitive performance and Alzheimer's Disease biomarkers within the Chinese American, Korean American, and Vietnamese American populations aged 65 years old and older.

The Vietnamese Insights into Aging Program (VIP) is a five-year research project that aims to understand how factors impact thinking and memory in the Vietnamese American community. The program also seeks to better understand disparities in health and research in the community. VIP is the first known study to enroll a prospective cohort of Vietnamese Americans to study early life factors and cognitive aging.

This project commemorates the process refugees and immigrants in South Vietnam went through to, eventually becoming Vietnamese Americans. Members of the Vietnamese community in the San Jose area recorded their stories in the form of images and written passages to preserve their experiences for future generations

The goal of this project is to increase awareness and understanding about air quality and its impact on people’s health in the Vietnamese community in Santa Clara county (San Jose area) through one-on-one community outreach, community forums, ethnic media, social media, as well as building a cohort of Air Quality Ambassadors. This project is funded by a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

BREATHE California of the Bay Area fights lung disease in all its forms and works with its communities to promote lung health. They envision a world that promotes healthy lungs and a healthy environment. Learn more about them at their website by clicking the link below!

Our goal is to register 10,000 API (Asian Pacific Islanders) including 2500 Vietnamese individuals into a registry database of people who are interested in participating in community-based research. If you or someone you know is interested in participating, please contact ICAN’s office. We are currently in the seond partof the research.

We seek to engage and serve all Vietnamese American Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementia (ADRD) caregivers and stakeholders in the Vietnamese American community. Our hope is for them to gain knowledge about dementia, caregiving, and advanced directives to better inform their healthcare decisions.

ICAN is proud to help strengthen the voice of Vietnamese Americans in the area of research so that culturally competent strategies and services can be documented to serve Vietnamese communities around the world better.

We serve all Asian/Pacific Islanders living in the United States who are interested in community-based research.