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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
Program Rating Brief Description
Prisoner Reentry Mediation Maryland
Insufficient Evidence

This reentry program to reduce recidivism uses one or more 2-hour mediation sessions to reunite inmates with their families, build prosocial relationships, and set clear expectations prior to release.

Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program
Insufficient Evidence

A prison-based job-placement program intended to increase employment and reduce recidivism among prisoners after release.

Prime Time
Not Dissemination Ready

A multi-component youth development program designed to reduce pregnancy risk and aggression among high-risk adolescent girls.

Preventure/Personality Targeted Substance Misuse Intervention
Inconclusive Evidence

A substance use prevention program that aims to reduce or delay drinking, alcohol abuse, drug use, and associated problems among at-risk youth.

Preventive Treatment Program
Inconclusive Evidence

A multi-component program that aims to prevent antisocial behavior of boys who display early problem behavior.

Preventive Dimensions Program
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to increase awareness and decrease use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, namely marijuana.

Prevention through Puppetry (Friends From Sunshine Center)
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based summer program designed to increase positive social skills and decrease inappropriate behaviors in young children.

Prevention Program for Externalizing Problem Behavior (PEP)
Insufficient Evidence

A prevention program designed to reduce symptoms of ADHD and ODD in children at risk for the development of these disorders.

Prevention of Overweight among Preschool and school children (POP)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based, multi-level program that aims to promote healthy eating habits, increase daily physical activity, and decrease screen-time among children.

Prevention of Alcohol use in Students (PAS)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based alcohol use program that aims to prevent adolescents from early-onset drinking through both student and parent components.

Preventing Relational Aggression in Schools Everyday (PRAISE)
Inconclusive Evidence

A classroom-based program designed to reduce relational and overt aggression in elementary school students.

Pressley Ridges Treatment Foster Care
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program focused on fostering readiness that teaches prospective foster parents enhanced skills to help manage the behaviors of youth in their care through pre-service trainings.

Preschool PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)
Inconclusive Evidence

A classroom-based enrichment intervention used to support the development of social-emotional competencies and language/emergent literacy skills among pre-K children and ultimately to reduce aggression in the school and home.

Preparing for Life
Insufficient Evidence

A home visiting program designed to improve shared reading between parents and children and ultimately improve cognitive development of children.

PREPARE (Proactive, Responsive, Empirical, and Proactive Alternatives in Regular Education)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-wide behavior management model designed to reduce problem-behavior among students by employing staff development strategies that encourage teachers to respond to the demands of behavior management proactively.

PREPARE
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-component program to improve sexual health behaviors and reduce intimate partner violence in eighth graders.

Pre-to-Three Program
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based program designed to promote the health and development of children by creating partnerships among agencies to facilitate early identification of medical and developmental problems, provide a seamless system of care for young children, and to develop community capacity.

Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics Tutorial (PKMT)
Not Dissemination Ready

A school-based program targeting pre-K students scoring in the lowest quartile for mathematics to improve their performance in mathematics.

Pre-K Mathematics
Inconclusive Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve math curricula in public preschools to better prepare children for later math education.

Pre Kids’ Club and Moms’ Empowerment Program
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to reduce child internalizing behavior related to witnessing intimate partner violence.

PRALIMAP (Promotion de l’ALImentation et de l’Activite Physique)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce BMI and prevent overweight/obesity among students.

Pragmatic School-Based Universal Resilience Intervention for Substance Use Reduction
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce and prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use in high school students by integrating protective factors into existing curricula.

PowerTeaching Mathematics (formerly Student Teams-Achievement Divisions)
Inconclusive Evidence

A teacher training program that aims to help students achieve academic success by improving their understanding of mathematics concepts.

Positively Fit (PF)
Insufficient Evidence

A family-based program designed to reduce BMI and improve health-related quality of life among overweight children and adolescents.

Positive Thoughts and Action Program
Inconclusive Evidence

A depression prevention program designed to address key factors that contribute to and perpetuate depressive symptoms during the early adolescent years.

Positive Parenting for Healthy Living
Insufficient Evidence

A group parenting intervention aimed at parents of children with asthma or eczema designed to improve parenting skills and parent adjustment and reduce child behavioral and emotional difficulties.

Positive Greetings at the Door
Insufficient Evidence

A proactive teacher intervention to reduce middle school student problem behaviors and increase academic engagement.

Positive Family Support
Not Dissemination Ready

A family-based, 3-tiered intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior and risk for substance abuse and depression and improve family management practices and communication skills, as well as adolescents’ self-regulation skills and prosocial behaviors.

Positive Attitude
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based social emotional learning program that aims to improve social and emotional skills, attitudes, behavior, and academic performance.

Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (PATHS)
Insufficient Evidence

A curricular-based program that attempts to promote positive youth development in Hong Kong.

Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to increase commitment to school, decrease dropout rates, and promote problem-solving skills, peaceful conflict resolution, and positive social orientations in African-American adolescents.

Positive Action through Holistic Education (Project PATHE)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-wide program that aims to foster bonding to school, reduce school disorder, and increase student educational and occupational attainment.

Positive Action Intensive Family Program
Inconclusive Evidence

A family therapy program that focuses on providing intrinsic motivation for developing and maintaining positive behavioral patterns.

Pono Choices
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to increase knowledge, attitudes, skills, and intentions towards sexual health behaviors in middle school students.

Police-led Truancy Intervention
Insufficient Evidence

A truancy prevention program that aims to improve school attendance and reduce delinquency of youth.

Police Foot Patrol
Inconclusive Evidence

A crime prevention program designed to reduce violence in violent-crime hot spots by increasing police presence.

Playworks
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program that aims to engage students in physical activity, foster social skills, improve students’ ability to focus on class work, decrease behavioral problems, and improve school climate by providing opportunities for organized play during recess and class time.

Playtime/Social Time: Organizing Your Classroom to Build Interaction Skills
Insufficient Evidence

A social skills training program to reduce aggressive and antisocial behaviors in early childhood.

Playing and Learning Social Skills
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based social skills training program that aims to reduce social anxiety among children aged 9 to 12 in disruptive classrooms.

PlayForward
Insufficient Evidence

A video-game based education program designed to reduce rates of HIV in minority youth by delaying initiation of sexual intercourse and improving sexual health attitudes, knowledge and intentions.

Play Nicely (Multimedia Violence Prevention)
Insufficient Evidence

A program that educates caregivers about the basics of aggression management for children ages 1-7 in order to reduce later aggression and violence in adolescents and adults.

Play and Learning Strategies (PALS)
Inconclusive Evidence

A parent training program that aims to improve parental responsiveness to infants and children and improve child development.

Plan A
Inconclusive Evidence

A single-session sexual health video intervention that aims to promote effective contraceptive use, dual methods of protection, and HIV/STI testing among Hispanic and Black adolescent females.

Pittsburgh’s Early Childhood Initiative
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based program designed to foster preschool and school success for at-risk children.

Physicians Counseling Smokers (PCS)
Insufficient Evidence

A smoking cessation program that aims to increase physicians’ adoption of and effectiveness at delivering smoking cessation strategies to their patients, ultimately aiming to reduce smoking rates.

Physical Activity Leaders (PALs)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program that seeks to reduce BMI and improve muscular fitness, physical activity, and dietary behavior of low-active adolescent boys from disadvantaged schools.

Phonological Awareness Training with Music
Insufficient Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve phonological knowledge among preschoolers who may be at increased risk of experiencing difficulty in learning to read, using music and picture and object examples.

Phonological Awareness Training – Segmentation and Rhyming
Insufficient Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve phonological knowledge among preschoolers who are expected to experience difficulty in learning to read, using small-group activities.

Phonological Awareness Training
Insufficient Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve phonological knowledge among preschoolers who are expected to experience difficulty in learning to read.

Phonological Awareness plus Synthetic Phonics (Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing Program)
Inconclusive Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve the reading outcomes of students who enter school with reduced phonological skill through increased instruction on phonological awareness and synthetic phonics.

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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
University of Colorado Boulder
Institute of Behavioral Science
UCB 483, Boulder, CO 80309

Email: blueprints@colorado.edu

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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is
currently funded by Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) and historically has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.