EMPOWERDB TOOLS
Client assessment tools
Client Assessment and Survey Manual (2023)
Client Services Evaluation Webinar

SURVIVOR VOICE: EXPERIENCE SURVEY
Survivor Voice: Experience Survey English

ACQES (CLIENT EMPOWERMENT EVALUATION) TOOLS
ACQES Webinar
ACQES Evaluation Tool (2019) - English (PDF)

Non-English ACQES Surveys*
Arabic - Survey Monkey
Arabic - PDF
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French - Survey Monkey
French - PDF

Portuguese - Survey Monkey
Portuguese - PDF

Spanish - Survey Monkey
Spanish - PDF

Somali - Survey Monkey
Somali - PDF
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*Non-English ACQES surveys entered into Survey Monkey will be checked quarterly by MECASA staff. MECASA will coordinate translation of non-English surveys filled out by survivors. MECASA staff will then enter the translated/English version via individual agency EmpowerDB survey links.
population specific assessments
2023
2019-2022 Population-based Services Assessment
2019
2017-2018 Services & Populations Assessment
Executive Summary - 2017-2018 Services & Populations Assessment 

2015
MECASA Underserved Needs Assessment
Executive Summary - MECASA Underserved Needs Assessment
What this Assessment is
The first needs assessment of this kind was done in 2015 by Maine Intercultural Communication Consultants. MECASA did another assessment in 2018 – those publications and this one are designed to give MECASA and its member centers information about Maine’s population-specific survivors. The assessments identified strengths and gaps in service provision along with making recommendations for increasing accessible and appropriate services for all survivors in Maine.
 
We will continue to use this assessment to:
  1. Determine priority populations for the next three years by identifying under-represented populations and/or gaps in services as reported by survivors and community partners.
  2. Identify agencies or programs who are successfully meeting population-specific needs.
  3. Provide sexual assault organizations and allied programs the data needed to create their own internal programmatic priorities.
  4. Provide sexual assault organizations and allied programs the data needed to apply for additional funding and grow their programs.

What this Assessment isn’t
Turning survivor experiences into faceless data goes against the grain of our daily practices in the anti-sexual violence field. Empowerment, healing, and acquiring resources for survivors means training advocates in the skills of deep listening to honor an individual survivor’s complex, nuanced, and deeply personal needs. This assessment cannot capture or reflect those individual experiences or survivors’ compound identities in any meaningful way.
 
This assessment is not a replacement for being in relationship and conversation with providers who offer culturally-and-community specific services. The expertise that lives within those agencies is dynamic and responsive; to be knowledgeable about their work is an on-going practice in re-prioritization.
 
Finally, this assessment is not an adequate answer for those who never receive sexual assault services because they don’t know they exist, don’t know they are for them, don’t know how to find them, and/or because the services are not trusted.  
performance measurement
prevention specific tracking and evaluation
Program planning