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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program (STAMPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based alcohol prevention program, coupled with a brief parental component, that aims to reduce heavy episodic drinking and alcohol-related harms in adolescents. |
Stop School Bullying |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based workshop program that aims to reduce bullying using a holistic approach to changing attitudes and behaviors in the school. |
Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-modeled reading intervention designed to create independent self-regulated readers who are capable of applying appropriate reading strategies in various contexts. |
Strengthening Families |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program intended to reduce children’s risk factors associated with substance use and delinquency by improving parenting skills among parents with substance abuse problems. |
Stress Inoculation Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive counseling program that aims to help adolescents cope with stress, while producing reductions in anxiety, depression and anger as well as increases in self-esteem. |
Stressbusters |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based cognitive behavioral training program that aims to treat depressive symptoms in adolescents. |
Strive Weekly |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online, synchronized, group-level, universal program to prevent anxiety and depression among college students. |
Student Bodies (StayingFit) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An internet-based cognitive-behavioral program intended to help normal and overweight adolescents reduce binge eating, maintain or lose weight, increase healthy eating, increase physical activity, and develop healthy body image. |
Student Success Skills |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve learning skills and academic achievement among students through a structured classroom guidance component and a small group counseling component. |
Supplemental Classwide Math Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program to improve mathematics proficiency, including accuracy and speed in calculations, through supplemental fluency-building activities delivered in regular classes to fourth- and fifth-grade students. |
Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-session group program that aims to reduce post-traumatic and depressive symptoms and improve functioning of middle school youth who have been exposed to traumatic events. |
Support to Reunite, Involve and Value Each Other (STRIVE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A short family intervention designed to reduce sexual risk behavior, drug use, and delinquent behaviors among newly homeless youth by reducing family conflict, improving family problem-solving skills, and teaching conflict resolution skills. |
Supporting Teens’ Academic Needs Daily (STAND) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family counseling program that seeks to improve academic performance and decrease conduct problems among adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder by teaching parents and children to work together to correct problem behavior, monitor success, and reward good performance. |
Switch-on Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to achieve functional literacy, develop independent active readers, and close the reading achievement gap for vulnerable children performing below age-expected levels. |
Synchronized Movement |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve social-cognitive skills and promote cooperation in children by using synchronous movements and shared temporal experiences. |
Tailored Package for Child Obesity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family counseling program designed to reduce child obesity by motivating parents to change children’s diets and activity levels. |
Take Action Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms in 5th grade children by helping them develop skills for relaxation, coping, and problem-solving. |
Take Charge of Your Life (New DARE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to prevent substance use in early adolescence through explanation of consequences and life skills instruction. |
Take Charge! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program that uses mentoring and relationship building to reduce aggression, fighting, and reinjury among assault-injured youths. |
Taking Charge Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to promote long-term self-sufficiency of pregnant and parenting teenagers using cognitive-behavioral therapy and skills training. |
Talent Search |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to help youth from disadvantaged backgrounds prepare for and gain access to college by providing academic, career, and financial counseling. |
Teen Health Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-level HIV prevention program designed for at risk adolescents. |
Teens and Toddlers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to decrease teenage pregnancy by raising the aspirations and educational attainment of 13-17 year old girls at most risk of social exclusion, leaving education early, and becoming pregnant. |
Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A pre-K program to help disadvantaged children by giving them access to quality instruction, improving readiness for elementary school, and preventing long-term academic, social, and economic problems. |
Tertiary Health Research Intervention via Email (THRIVE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief, web-based survey that aims to decrease the amount of hazardous drinking in university students through personalized feedback. |
Text Messaging to Reduce Absenteeism |
Inconclusive Evidence | A text-messaging program for parents that aims to reduce absenteeism among elementary school children. |
Texts for Summer Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that sends text messages to parents during the summer to increase the engagement with their children in reading activities and to improve summer learning. |
The Michigan Model of Infant Mental Health Home Visiting |
Inconclusive Evidence | A relationship-based home visiting program that aims to enhance responsive caregiving and improve child social-emotional development. |
Three Generation Study (Home-Based Mentoring for Pregnant Teens) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based intervention aimed at preventing adolescents who have children from having further children through counseling from women with similar experiences. |
Time to Read |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based, 1-hour per week volunteer program aiming to improve children’s reading skills with an emphasis on children discovering the enjoyment of reading and improving their reading fluency. |
Tobacco-free Duo (T-Duo) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent adolescent tobacco use through yearly antitobacco instruction and a contract made with an adult to remain smoke-free for three years. |
Together Learning Choices (formerly Teens Linked to Care) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A series of counseling modules designed to reduce sexual and substance use risk acts, improve physical health behaviors, and improve mental health among young people living with HIV. |
Too Good For Drugs (Middle School) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to reduce drug, alcohol, and tobacco use in middle school students through increasing peer resistance skills, increasing positive attitudes regarding the inappropriateness of substance use, increasing knowledge of the prevalence of peer substance use, increasing positive perceptions of peer disapproval of substance use and increasing internal locus of control/self-efficacy. |
Too Good For Violence (K-8) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to reduce risk and build protective factors related to violence in elementary and middle school students. |
Tools for Getting Along (TFGA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-delivered intervention designed to decrease student aggression and strengthen prosocial behavior through classroom lessons. |
Tooty Fruity Vegie (TFV) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school based intervention designed to positively impact preschool children’s weight status by improving fundamental movement skills and food consumption patterns, and by reducing the amount of unhealthy snack items consumed. |
Transform Us! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior in students in the third grade through lessons and teacher encouragement. |
Transitional Jobs After Prison Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive program designed to remove barriers to employment by finding transitional jobs for former prisoners, providing social skills training and job coaching, and helping them find permanent jobs. |
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (aka CBT for Child Sexual Abuse) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A counseling program designed to reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress in children by helping them talk about their experiences and cope with their feelings and concerns relating to their abuse and assisting parents in coping with abuse-specific distress and responding effectively to their children’s emotional and behavioral problems. |
Triple P – Positive Parenting Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to prevent severe behavioral, emotional and developmental problems in children from birth to age 12 by enhancing the knowledge, skills and confidence of parents. |
Truancy Assessment and Service Center (TASC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based, intensive case management program that uses a staged approach to engage elementary school-age children and their families with the overall goal of decreasing truancy. |
Tuning in to Kids |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program intended to help children correctly identify and resolve emotional and behavioral problems by developing supportive, emotionally responsive parents. |
Turtle |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent and child skills training program intended to help shy preschoolers become more confident and socially active and to reduce behavioral inhibition, internalizing, and anxiety through individual and family counseling. |
Unified Champion Schools |
Inconclusive Evidence | A whole-school program designed to improve the educational experience of disabled and non-disabled students through socially inclusive school activities. |
University of Illinois Suicide Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A university-based mental health program to reduce the rate of suicide among at-risk students. |
Unplugged (EU-Dap) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to reduce alcohol and drug use amongst junior high students. |
Urban Debate League |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school debate program that aims to increase graduation rates and college readiness, improve academic skills, and raise standardized test scores among high school students. By most helping minority and at-risk students, the program also aims to reduce educational disparities. |
Video Cyberbullying Intervention for College Students |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief video-based online intervention to reduce cyberbullying among college students. |
Video Interaction Project (VIP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A relationship-based, individualized parent-child intervention that is administered to families in the context of pediatric primary care and intends to enhance cognitive, language, and socioemotional development of young children. |
Video Interactive Guidance (Mothers and Young Children) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program where parents and their children watch and discuss short videos together with a trained guide. The goal is to improve communication and build stronger relationships. |
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