Across the world there are many thousands of community-based organisations that are doing their best to respond to the challenges of AIDS. 

Many of their leaders and project workers recognise that they need help: practical training so that their efforts will be more effective in saving lives, able to care for more people, able to recruit more volunteers, able to attract more funding, able to be more effective partners with local government agencies, able to make the difference they feel called to make.

That is why a vital part of ACET's work is to train workers.  That may be through workshops, seminarrs or conferences, or through encouraging project leaders to visit well-established ACET projects, or through mentoring and coaching on a long term basis.

ACET training reaches many thousands of community leaders each year.  In addition, ACET distributes training resources in over 20 languages - with over 350,000 AIDS and You or AIDS Action books given away already, in partnership with many other agencies, including Operation Mobilisation.

A particular focus of ACET training is to equip churches to offer care and education to those with, or at risk from, HIV and AIDS. Ignorance and stigma remain major barriers to tackling HIV and AIDS and church members are also affected. 

Leaders are encouraged, through workshops, conferences and publications, to address both their own and their congregation's prejudices and cultural values and develop their own theology of compassionate care for those in their communities.