Applied Research & Evaluation Technologies Group
The market is flooded with software products that meet narrow programmatic and project-based needs. Out-of-the-box technology tools often fail to fully understand the community-specific needs, inputs, environmental factors, and assumptions that support a complete picture of program logic. As a result, systems often fall short in meeting complex social problems with relevant technology solutions. ARET Group is a social enterprise company comprised of real people (researchers, evaluators, and technology experts) with experience shaping impactful community programs.
With over a decade of large-scale applied experience, informing our unique approach to community-based evaluation and research, ARET Group has a vision for solving complex social problems in public and nonprofit organizations using flexible and customizable software tools. Our vision is to meet specific needs using ‘first principle’ concepts in evaluation and research for technology design. We believe this approach is a critical step toward addressing systemic issues of equitable access to programming and achieving favorable outcomes among diverse target populations.
All of our research applications comply with Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and ALCOA+C standards for electronic data management. We work with sites to carefully rate and segment personally identifiable information and take steps to ensure subject confidentiality. These are the technology solutions we have found programs and projects need to be successful:
Integrated case notes, program referral tracking, task prioritization, and assessment tools to help manage complex hierarchical associations and wrap- around services.
Supporting complex survey instrumentation designs and form validation schemes, including integrated systems for supporting longitudinal data tracking.
Programs increasingly need an instant feedback loop to leverage data quickly for enhanced public accountability, mission-critical decision-making, and grant compliance.
Program and project managers must keep the big picture in mind as they advance specific goals, which can be supported by live dashboard tools.
Heightened public and funder accountability requires the highest standards are met to ensure ethical procedures for maintaining sensitive client information.
Generate simple processes for retrieving de-identified case by row data for programs seeking to generalize findings, build evidence basis, and reduce processing costs.
Re-imagine and upgrade a legacy system to align with current organizational objectives and pivot quickly to meet emerging needs.
Create customized hosting options to enhance the possibilities for cross-sector collaborations. Migrate data to avoid information loss. Or, upgrade data management infrastructure.
ARET Group aims to engage community-based organizations in data-driven decision making. Our current customized, project-focused software solutions can bring true value to growing organizations seeking to manage programs by reducing research and evaluation operating costs and/or improving program accountability to meet goals and objectives
Create a space for collaboration with multiple sectors/ organizational actors who share data reporting or collection responsibilities. Allow for integrated training and data entry tracking, that can yield missing data analyses and response rate information
Systematically track customized program performance metrics and research-based outcome indicators
Reduce program costs in the execution of randomized control trails and other rigorous research projects
Manage for complex data collection and instrumentation designs, including cohort and panel tracking as well as wrap-around case management services. Allow researchers to look closely at complex networks or layers of care
Maintain a data management system that is flexible and can adapt to various and changing external stakeholder demands. Get reports directly
Our passion for evaluation is helping programs improve the scope of their impact in the community
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Since our first product launch in 2020, we have had the opportunity to work on some amazing projects that play an important role in the communities they serve.
They have done the “hard work of updating and redesigning” our software. As well as helping us re-establish “working relationships to guide the project” Midwifery Alliance of North America
They bring to the conversation ideas and input that comes only with numerous years of experience
Their expert insight around youth development measurement and skills in data analysis were vital to the successful execution of the grant project
Their work has helped to bring national attention to the County for its work in mental health crisis
Even when more traditional funding avenues weren't available, [ARET Group] assisted with a grant that was awarded to the Program in 2018. This was absolutely vital to the launch (and continuing success) of the Program
We keep up with data-driven research and expert knowledge related to user experience. With careful consideration to features that make users feel more comfortable on our platform tools, users will spend more time and will be more effective while working.
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After 14 months in development with the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), ARET Group is launching MANA Stats Plus, our latest software built with ARET Group Platform tools. This project was developed to host the nation’s largest home birth registry.
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A Literacy Enhanced, School-Based, 1:1 mentoring program, designed to improve at-risk child reading readiness (K-2nd grade), meets development relationship expectations. Published by our ARET Group Research Affiliates.
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Gemeinschaft Home, in partnership with ARET Group, is one of only 30 local organizations across the country selected to participate in the 2022 Urban Institute and Microsoft Catalyst Justice Reform Initiative using data and technology to advance racial equity in the criminal legal system in prevention, policing, and prosecution. The RESTART system offers a solution for systematically tracking individual-level outcomes and organizational processes in the criminal diversion and reentry sector.
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