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HAMAA has developed and sponsors several primary programs, including:

Council of Hmong Elders (CHE) -- provides cultural services to Hmong families in marriage customs, traditional legal rules and family rearing, outreach to seniors and mentors for challenged youth.

Family Empowerment Network (FEN) -- provides family and teen counseling and planning services, reduces the high unemployment rate among Hmong men and women in the Twin Cities through close cooperation with Metro Area employers, and responds on household safety, nutrition and other family related questions.

Academic Barriers Challengers (ABC) -- after school program improving Hmong children’s (ages 5-10 years) academic performance through after-school tutoring, educational and recreational activities, basic computer training, indoor and outdoor games, arts and music, and community activities.

Youth Empowerment Partners (YEP) -- for Teens (ages 11-21 years) to reduce truancy and delinquency and develop employable skills among Hmong youth through career development skills, awareness of societal rules and values and diversion from delinquency, crime and youth gang activity by providing developmental activities.

Center for Hmong Adolescent Development (CHAD) -- a collaborating partner, initially active in mid-1998, working side by side with Twin Cities, County and State police and corrections personnel to identify, contact, communicate with and bring back into the Hmong Community those youth who are runaways or “family castaways,” truant and dropouts and may now be involved in youth gang activity.

Minneapolis Community Patrol (MCP) -- a crime prevention, youth gang deterrent and seniors safety net formed from within the Hmong Community to serve especially the needs of Hmong-language families and assist door-to-door outreach to our mainstream neighbors.

Neighborhood Home Buyers Club (NHBC) -- a collaborative effort with the University of Minnesota – Extension Service (Hennepin County) to provide basic home buying smarts, home maintenance care tips and ownership responsibility rules.