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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Firearm-Injury Prevention Programs (Eddie Eagle & Behavioral Skills Training) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to reduce firearm injuries and gun play in children by teaching children gun-safety skills. |
First Step to Success |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program designed to teach children school success skills and prosocial behaviors. |
Fit & Vaardig op School (F&V) [English: Fit and Academically Proficient at School] |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase academic achievement by implementing a physically active academic intervention connected to the standard curriculum during regular classroom hours. |
Fit-4-Fun |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve the fitness and physical activity level of primary school children by building a school environment that supports physical activity, increasing family involvement in the program, and teaching a strong health and physical education program. |
Fitness Improves Thinking in Kids (FITKids) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program that aims to improve the aerobic fitness, body weight, and cognitive functioning of children through a variety of age-appropriate physical activities. |
Flemish Anti-Bullying Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce bullying perpetration and victimization in primary and secondary schools. |
Flemish Health Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | The program’s goal is to encourage physical activities and reduce fat intake in order to decrease obesity among adolescents. |
Flint Odyssey House (FOH) Family-Focused Substance Abuse |
Insufficient Evidence | A family-focused treatment program that aims to improve retention, psychosocial functioning, and parenting attitudes of pregnant and parenting women in alcohol/drug recovery. |
FOCUS (Freedom from Obsessions and Compulsions using Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to successfully treat obsessive-compulsive disorders in youth with a family-inclusive cognitive-behavioral approach delivered in either a group- or an individual-family format. |
Focus on Families |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention/treatment program that aims to reduce parental drug use and prevent children’s initiation of drug use by addressing both family-related risk factors for children’s substance abuse and risk factors for parents’ relapse, as well as enhancing family-related protective factors. |
Focus on Youth in the Caribbean (FOYC); Bahamian Focus on Older Youth (BFOOY) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A HIV/AIDS prevention program targeting Bahamian middle and high school students to increase HIV knowledge and condom use, and ultimately reduce risky sexual behavior later in life. |
FOCUS: Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unwanted Pregnancies among Young Women |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program designed to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies (UPs) in young, sexually active women. |
Food and Fun After School |
Insufficient Evidence | An obesity prevention program that aims to reduce child obesity by creating opportunities to increase physical activity and eat nutritious snacks after school. |
Food, Fun, and Fitness |
Insufficient Evidence | An 8-week web-based program designed to increase fruit/juice/vegetable intake and physical activity in African American girls. |
Forever Free |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive 6-month cognitive-behavioral substance abuse treatment program for incarcerated women. |
Formalized Treatment for Cannabis Dependence |
Insufficient Evidence | A homogeneous, explicitly formalized therapeutic protocol that draws from motivational interviews, cognitive behavioral therapy, and family approaches to change the addictive behavior of adolescents dependent on cannabis. |
Foster Care Intervention for Girls |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to prevent internalizing and externalizing problems while increasing prosocial behaviors of girls in foster care who are transitioning to middle school. |
Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens (FHF-T) |
Under Review | A mentoring program for 8th and 9th grade youth with child welfare involvement aimed to prevent and/or reduce delinquency and juvenile justice involvement. |
Fostering Opportunities |
Insufficient Evidence | A student engagement program designed to help secondary students who have experienced foster care be successful in school and ultimately earn a high school credential. |
Fourth R: Skills for Youth Relationships |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to reduce dating violence among high school and middle school students in Canada. |
Frameworks Youth Suicide Prevention Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based project designed to increase community effectiveness in responding to youth suicidal events, including suicidal ideation, attempts and threats and completed suicides, by developing shared knowledge, language and understanding among all constituencies in a community. |
Friend to Friend (F2F) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based group intervention program designed to promote problem-solving skills and prosocial strategies for dealing with peer conflicts among relationally aggressive girls enrolled in the third through fifth grades in urban, predominantly African American schools. |
Friendly PEERsuasion |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to stop and prevent substance abuse among early adolescent girls through teaching program participants communication and leadership skills, stress management skills, coping strategies to deal with peer pressure to use illegal substances, and the harmful effects of using these substances. |
Friendly Schools Friendly Families |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that aims to reduce bullying in elementary and middle school through education for students, their families, and school staff. |
Friendly Schools Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | Utilizing a whole-school approach, this program aims to improve students’ social competence and relationship skills to reduce bullying and the harm students may experience from bullying. |
FRIENDS |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family-based, cognitive-behavioral training program that seeks to prevent and/or reduce child anxiety. |
FRIENDS for Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 10-week emotional resiliency program that aims to reduce adolescent anxiety/depression and improve school adjustment during the transition from primary to secondary school. |
FRIENDS Parent Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent component of the FRIENDS for Life intervention program designed to lower child anxiety symptoms by addressing parent anxiety. |
Full-Day Prekindergarten |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program of full-day Prekindergarten aimed at increasing school readiness. |
Fun FRIENDS |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent anxiety and promote social and emotional strength in preschoolers. |
Fun n healthy in Moreland! |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to reduce/prevent obesity among children. |
Functional Family Therapy-Child Welfare (FFT-CW) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A tailored family therapy program that aims to reduce child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. A tailored family therapy program that aims to reduce child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. |
Future Foundations Summer School Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to reduce summer learning loss and improve academic attainment. |
Gang Intervention Treatment: Re-entry Development for Youth Initiative (GitRedy) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community reintegration program using cognitive life skills training and individual counseling to help youth, specifically former gang members, reintegrate into their communities after confinement. |
Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (GREAT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A curriculum implemented by law enforcement officers in schools that teaches conflict resolution skills, cultural sensitivity, and the negative aspects of gang life to middle school students to enable them to resist peer pressure to join gangs. |
Gang Resistance is Paramount (GRIP) |
Insufficient Evidence | An educational program for elementary and middle school students and their parents about the dangers of gang involvement through school and community-based programming. The program also provides counseling to students who show signs of gang involvement. |
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | Support for a variety of suicide prevention programs that aims to decrease incidence of suicide attempts and suicide mortality. |
Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Program Training – QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) |
Insufficient Evidence | A training program for school staff to learn to recognize risk factors for and signs of suicidal ideation and to talk with students displaying warning signs. |
George Washington University Drug Education Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A drug curriculum for elementary and middle school students that aims to decrease use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco and influence students’ attitudes and intentions towards drug use. |
Get ‘Em on Task |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based intervention program aimed at using individualized rewards to decrease off-task behavior in elementary school students. |
Get Real |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sexual education program for middle schoolers and their parents that aims to delay sexual debut and promote abstinence, and also provides information about contraception methods. |
Get Real About Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum aimed at changing students’ opinions about violence and violence-related behaviors and social norms surrounding violence using a variety of educational mediums and class discussions. |
Getting Ready |
Insufficient Evidence | An in-home program delivered by a Head Start educator to parents of 3-to-5-year-olds living in poverty, aimed at increasing their school readiness. The programs also aims to improve the quality of parent-child interactions. |
Gipuzkoa Family Treatment Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A training program for neglectful and abusive families designed to preserve children’s safety and ensure their basic needs are met, stop abusive and neglectful behaviors, and maintain the family unit. Aims to improve the quality of family interactions and relationships and make the family environment more conducive to appropriate parental behaviors by reducing impeding conditions such as social isolation and parental depression. |
Girl Power! |
Insufficient Evidence | A substance abuse prevention program for adolescent girls that uses science-based practices and also aims to increase school bonding and achievement through school-based activities and active partnerships with schools. |
Girls Growing in Wellness and Balance: Yoga and Life Skills to Empower |
Insufficient Evidence | An eating disorder prevention program for preadolscent girls that aims to reduce risk and increase protective factors such as self-care through small group sessions delivered by interventionists in a classroom or after-school setting. |
Girls in the Game (GIG) |
Insufficient Evidence | An afterschool program for preadolsecent girls that aims to promote social-emotional development and reduce BMI and unhealthy behaviors through enhancing health literacy and empowering the girls to believe that they can make healthy choices as well as promoting self-control around health and life choices. |
Girls on the Run |
Insufficient Evidence | A developmental-focused youth sport program for elementary school girls that aims to improve self-esteem, body size satisfaction, commitment to physical activity, and levels of physical activity. |
Girls’ Circle |
Insufficient Evidence | A support group program for girls aged 9-18 that aims to foster self-awareness and self-esteem, maintain authentic connections with peers and adult women in the community, counter trends toward self-doubt, and allow for genuine self-expression through verbal sharing and creative activity. |
Girls’ Group |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program for fifth grade girls that aims to reduce eating disorder risk and media influence through small group sessions delivered by licensed practitioners and trained interventionists. |
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