Blueprints Future FAQ
External funding for Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development ("Blueprints") concluded in July 2024 and, despite intensive fundraising efforts since 2022, no external or internal funding sources are presently available for Blueprints to continue "operating as usual" at its founding institutional home at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science. With input from our scientific advisory board and staff, Blueprints will be put into dormancy until it is possible to secure a sustainable, high-impact path forward. The dormancy process entails updating information on the existing programs listed on our website and ensuring that Blueprints will remain freely available and searchable while in dormancy. This process will be completed by June 2025.
Below are some FAQs to help you understand this decision and what it means for Blueprints’ future. Read more about the future of Blueprints here.
Why did Blueprints go into dormancy?
Blueprints has been primarily funded by sources external to the University of Colorado Boulder since its founding in 1996. Blueprints’ latest grant concluded in summer 2024 and, despite intensive fundraising efforts the past two years, no external or internal funding sources are presently available for Blueprints to continue "operating as usual" at its founding institutional home at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science without more infrastructure and support. After assessing multiple options in consultation with input from its scientific advisory board, Blueprints’ Principal Investigator Dr. Pamela Buckley decided to put Blueprints into dormancy so that the core content of the registry could remain available online and viable should an institutional home with diversified stable funding sources become available in the future.
What does it mean for Blueprints to go dormant?
Blueprints will go dormant as of June 2025. To prepare for dormancy, Blueprints staff will ramp down evidence reviews. Until June 2025, Blueprints staff will only review randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that: (1) replicate findings of evidence-based interventions listed on the Blueprints website and show long-term (sustained) effects (i.e., have the potential to move from a program listed on the Blueprints website from "Promising" to "Model" or "Model Plus"), and/or (2) evaluate culturally responsive interventions. As of June 2025, program reviews will no longer be conducted and no further program additions or updates to certification or information will be made to the online registry; no other updates will be made to the website. The website will remain available and users will be able to search for programs, but the program information will not change after June 2025. Blueprints will close its social media accounts and no longer field inquiries from users as of June 2025. Once dormant, Blueprints staffing and advisory board will cease and Blueprints’ Principal Investigator and staff will no longer publish, advise, or present on Blueprints’ behalf since the organization itself will be closed.
Will Blueprints emerge from dormancy?
Blueprints will remain in dormancy until it is possible to secure a sustainable, high-impact path forward. As part of preparing for dormancy, Blueprints is reflecting on how it can put its assets to best use to the field and identifying priorities for an institutional home with diversified and more stable funding that would enable Blueprints to not only sustain its current operations but also grow in ways that are responsive to the field’s long-term needs. With input from the scientific advisory board and staff, Blueprints’ Principal Investigator has put in place a decision-making framework for evaluating opportunities to exit Blueprints from dormancy.
Who should I contact if I have questions about Blueprints or its dormancy?
Please contact Blueprints’ Principal Investigator, Dr. Pamela Buckley, at Pamela.Buckley@colorado.edu.