Programs That Have Not Met Blueprints Criteria
More than 90 percent of interventions we review do not receive Blueprints certification. Supported through funding from Arnold Ventures, Blueprints has extended its classification system to provide an evidence rating for interventions that fail to meet Blueprints certification standards. In providing descriptive information on common problems that disqualify interventions from Blueprints certification, we hope to offer concrete ways moving forward that will improve the methods and analyses employed in future program evaluation efforts.
In addition to rating the certified interventions that meet Blueprints criteria, non-certified interventions are also rated based on whether they have inconclusive or insufficient evidence.
Non-certified interventions are generally reviewed and rated internally by Blueprints staff, though the advisory board may also conclude an intervention they have reviewed lacked evidence for certification despite having made it through the internal review process.
All non-certified programs in our database are provided a rating based on specific review rationale.
Blueprints uses one additional and quite different category for non-certification. "Not Dissemination Ready" refers to programs that meet Blueprints criteria for the strength of evidence but are not ready for adoption by users.
The non-certified programs are as follows:
1445 Programs
| Brief Description | ||
|---|---|---|
Retired Mentors for New Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher mentoring program designed to increase students’ achievement in mathematics and reading by enhancing new teachers’ performance. |
Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youths (SAFETY) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A socio-ecological cognitive behavioral therapy program aimed at reducing suicidal ideation and attempts in adolescents by strengthening family supports and building skills in both parents and youth that contribute to safer stress reactions. |
SafeCare |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program intended to reduce child maltreatment and challenging child behaviors by improving parenting practices and parent-child interactions. |
Safer Choices |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program designed to reduce unprotected sexual intercourse by increasing the proportion of students who choose not to have sexual intercourse or by increasing condom use among students who are sexually active. |
Safer Sex Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A clinic-based program that aims to reduce risky sexual behavior, STIs, and teenage pregnancy in sexually active adolescent girls through meetings with a female health educator. |
SaferSanerSchools™ Whole-School Change |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to make schools safer and improve relationships and school climate by responding to disruptive behavior and conflict with restorative practices. |
SafERteens: Brief Intervention for Teen Violence and Alcohol Use |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based intervention delivered in the emergency department that aims to reduce peer-related violence and alcohol use among adolescents. |
Salud Con La Familia (Health within the Family) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A culturally tailored behavioral intervention that seeks to reduce obesity among Latino-American preschool children by teaching skills for better nutrition and increased physical activity. |
Salud y Exito (Health & Success) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based program that seeks to promote healthy sexual behaviors among young adolescents by improving positive parenting practices. |
Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce suicide attempts and ideation among teenage youth by tailoring activities to the risk level of the student, including counseling, workshops, and referral to mental health services. |
Saxon Math |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-centered instruction and daily in-class guided practice designed to increase the math achievement of first and second grade children. |
Scared Straight |
Inconclusive Evidence | A crime prevention program that aims to prevent troubled youth from committing offenses through interaction with prisoners serving life sentences, who run confrontational and realistic rap sessions. |
School Breakfast Clubs |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention intended to establish a positive relationship at the start of the school day, improve behavior and motivation, reduce lateness and truancy, and offer healthy eating choices by providing breakfast for children who might otherwise start the school day without having eaten. |
School Health Center Healthy Adolescent Relationship Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program aims to address adolescent relationship abuse by improving the recognition of abusive behaviors, knowledge of resources and intentions to intervene. |
School-Based Fitness Curriculum to Reduce Diabetes Risk in Children |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to improve body composition, cardiovascular fitness level, and insulin sensitivity in overweight children through a fitness-oriented gym class. |
School-Based Pediatric Obesity Prevention Facilitated by Health Professionals |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to slow the rate of weight gain and promote healthful behaviors in elementary school children. |
School-to-Jobs (STJ) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to improve academic achievement for minority and low socioeconomic status youth through improving academic confidence and teaching skills. |
School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive school-wide intervention that aims to decrease existing disruptive behaviors displayed by students in the classroom, prevent future incidents, and maximize student learning through discipline, conflict resolution, one-on-one tutoring, and family management. |
Schools and Homes in Partnership (SHIP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive school-based intervention designed to decrease children’s aggressive behavior and reading difficulties during early elementary school years through parent training, social behavior interventions, and supplemental reading instruction. |
Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley (SFAW) Mathematics |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher instruction intervention intended to increase the math achievement of pre-kindergarten through sixth grade children. |
Seattle Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A pre-booking diversion program that aims to reduce recidivism by providing individuals suspected of low-level drug and prostitution offenses with legal assistance and case management instead of prosecution and incarceration. |
Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration Programs |
Inconclusive Evidence | A re-entry program that intends to reduce recidivism post-release by providing social services to incarcerated and recently paroled offenders. |
Second Step Early Learning |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preschool-based school readiness curriculum developed to increase social emotional and executive functioning skills. |
Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention (SS-SSTP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom curriculum intended to reduce aggression, violence, and victimization in a school setting through teaching empathy, communication, and bullying prevention. |
Seeking Safety |
Inconclusive Evidence | A psychotherapy program designed to treat combined diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), and to improve pyschosocial functioning of participants. |
Self-Regulation Empowerment Program (SREP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve the mathematics skills of at-risk middle school students through small group meetings . The program is carried out during school hours in small group meetings that focus on developing students’ strategic thinking and actions. |
Self-Regulation Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preschool-based program that aims to improve academic performance by increasing self-regulation skills among preschool children through brief playgroups. |
Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A work-incentive program intended to facilitate healthy development in children through encouraging stable employment among single parents receiving income assistance by supplementing their earnings to a standard amount. |
Sexual Risk-Reduction Intervention plus Alcohol and Cannabis Content |
Inconclusive Evidence | A correctional facility-based intervention intended to reduce STI incidence and sexual risk behaviors among juvenile offenders through a single group session that focuses on changing attitudes about risk, alcohol, and cannabis. |
Shifting Boundaries |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent dating violence and sexual harassment through teaching the importance of determining and articulating personal boundaries among middle school students, while also fostering a protective school environment. |
SMART Kids, SMART Teachers, SMART Parents |
Inconclusive Evidence | A small-group prevention program designed to reduce risk factors predictive of later substance abuse and enhance protective factors shown to buffer risk. |
Smoke-free Kids |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based smoking prevention program designed for elementary school-aged children. |
SNAP (Stop Now and Plan) Girls |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral program intended to reduce anti-social aggressive and externalizing behaviors among young girls by focusing on skill development, social problem solving emotion regulation, assertiveness, and anger management. |
SNaX |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-wide environmental intervention designed to reduce BMI among teaching middle school students by teaching skills and healthier habits that apply across difference contexts (school, home, community). |
Social Aggression Prevention Program (SAPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to reduce social aggression and increase empathy, social problem solving, and prosocial behaviors through small support groups. |
Social Skills Group Intervention (S.S.GRIN) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based, group therapy program designed to improve at-risk children’s (highly disliked, socially anxious and bullied) school-based adjustment, which includes improved depression, anxiety, social acceptance, social interactions, social self-perceptions, and self-esteem. |
Socio-Moral Reasoning Development Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based, small group intervention designed to reduce antisocial and delinquent behavior in adolescent youth by increasing moral reasoning and development. |
Solve It! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to improve math problem solving by building thinking strategies through comprehension, visual representation, and planning. |
SOS: Signs of Suicide (Suicide Prevention Program) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce suicidal behavior among adolescents by increasing students’ understanding and recognition of depressive symptoms in themselves and others. |
SPARX (Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-Factor thoughts) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive behavioral program that aims to reduce depressive symptoms in adolescents suffering from clinically significant depression using a computerized fantasy role-play game, which helps improve mood and challenge negative thought patterns. |
SPARX-R |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to prevent the development or exacerbation of depressive symptoms using a computer-based, fantasy role-playing game. |
Spit Tobacco Intervention (STI) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to promote spit tobacco cessation and reduce initiation of spit tobacco use through peer support and dental education. |
Sports and Moral Character (Truancy Intervention) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve school attendance and eliminate acts of truancy through the use of character education, daily phone calls and club sports. |
Spotlight Serious Offender Services Unit (Intensive supervision probation) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive supervision probation program designed to reduce gang involvement and recidivism in high-risk youth gang members through a mentorship component in addition to the traditional strategies of surveillance and treatment. |
Start for Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-delivered program intended to reduce the risk of obesity among preschool children through structured physical activities. |
Start Making a Reader Today (SMART) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve reading achievement of students in the early grades who are at risk of reading failure, and reduce special education placement of these students in later years through one-on-one tutoring. |
Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families |
Inconclusive Evidence | A health promotion program designed to reduce youth alcohol and drug use by utilizing family and primary health care providers to match prevention content to specific risk levels of alcohol and other drug initiation, use and abuse. |
Stay the Course |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mentoring and counseling program designed to help community college students overcome non-academic obstacles and persist in reaching their goals for advanced education. |
Staying Connected with Your Teen (formerly Parents Who Care) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program designed to prevent problem behaviors among teens, such as substance abuse, violence, delinquency and early initiation of sexual behavior, by helping parents acquire or improve a variety of key parenting skills and techniques. |
Staying Healthy – Asthma Responsible and Prepared (SHARP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | SHARP is a health education and counseling program to help fourth- to seventh-grade students (9-13 year-olds) who have asthma to live with and manage their asthma. |
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