How do you develop and examine the goals of your program? One model ACET often uses is the SMART framework. This framework includes five important attributes, which also can be framed as questions:

How are you measuring your community readiness for your program?One model ACET often uses is the Community Readiness Model (CRM) developed by the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, and we have worked with this assessment for years.

If you want to discover what’s working, evaluate. If you want to identify what can be improved, evaluate. If you want to show impact, evaluate.

ACET, Inc., is excited to welcome Maggi Seybold, who joined ACET this summer as the Assistant to Project Teams.

ACET, Inc., is pleased to introduce Bree Zimmerman who joined ACET this summer as an Assistant to the Administrative Team!

ACET, Inc., is delighted to introduce our new Graphic Designer Coordinator, Mick Alvarez Flores.

To evaluate your program, many evaluators use a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) or Quality Improvement (QI) approach.

Creating effective evaluations virtually is important during a global pandemic. Here are 4 key ways we’ve discovered to make evaluation effective:

Before the pandemic, we conducted evaluation, facilitation, and other projects with a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.

In 1998, Stella SiWan Zimmerman founded ACET, Inc., and began building a strong team. Today, ACET has seven employees and a group of consultants who provide high-quality, culturally tailored evaluation and consulting services.

Before the start of the pandemic, addressing program fidelity usually occurred in person. Since programs now happen mostly online, it’s critical to continue to enhance program fidelity in a virtual environment.

Sustainability happens when organizations strategize, plan for, and set systems in place. How? Consider these ideas:

Over the past two decades, I’ve learned a lot about organizational development, and I’m constantly learning. What makes an organization successful? What can we learn from past experiences and current input?

With many people working from home for months due to the global pandemic, finding ways to work productively can be a challenge.

In the past, most partnerships occurred through in-person meetings. Now with many individuals working remotely, this has changed how partnerships meet and make progress.

At ACET, we evaluate many programs that involve partnerships as part of the funding requirements.

ACET, Inc., is excited to feature Carlos Gallego! For more than 20 years, we have had the opportunity to work with Carlos.

ACET, Inc., is excited to introduce our newest Research Associate, Rachel Engh, who joined the team in March.

At ACET, we've conducted a number of focus groups with children and youth ranging in age from grades 2nd to 12th grade.

As evaluators, we work to ensure our evaluations address stakeholder needs.