What is the ACE Certificate?

The ACE Certificate is awarded to clinicians or organizations that meet the ACORN Criteria for Effectiveness (ACE). The certificate provides external validation that the clinician or organization has met the threshold requirements for consistency of data collection, sample size, and effect size to be "certified effective".

The idea behind the ACE Certificate comes from organic farming, where organic farmers realized that their product would have greater value in the market place if there was an external body that could "certify" their product as organic. See California Certified Organic Farmers.

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Frequently asked questions

• What is value based care?
• What is practice based evidence?
• What is feedback informed treatment?
• What is the ACORN collaboration?
• What is the role of Tufts Health Plan?
• Who can I talk to if I have questions?
• What is the ACORN Decision Support Toolkit?
• Is there a way I can demo the Toolkit?
• How much will it cost me?
• How do I get started?
• If I am already collection outcome data, can I use this data?
• Which questionnaires should I use?
• How do I administer the questionnaires?
• How often do I administer the questionnaires?
• Which clients should I use the questionnaires with?
• Which languages and/or cultural groups are the questionnaires valid for?
• How do I know the Client ID number?
• How do I submit the completed forms?
• How can I view my outcome data?
• Do I need to use a specific informed consent form?
• How do I benchmark my own outcomes?
• How can I use my outcome data to market my services?
• What is the ACE Certificate?
• What's new?
  • Postings on emerging research of possible interest to members of the ACORN collaboration