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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Phoenix House Academy |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce substance use and problems associated with substance use among court-involved youths. |
Philosophy for Children (P4C) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to improve children’s reasoning abilities and judgment by teaching them how to think for themselves and make informed choices. |
PHAT Life |
Insufficient Evidence | A psychosocial intervention that aims to reduce HIV risk behavior, aggression, and re-incarceration among juvenile offenders on probation. |
Period of PURPLE Crying (PURPLE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to decrease Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) through the provision of information about infant crying habits and ways to deal with it. |
Performance-Based Scholarships (Scholarship-Only Program) |
Insufficient Evidence | A scholarship program that aims to increase the financial support available to low-income students and create an incentive for such students to complete their courses and make more timely progress toward degrees. |
Per Scholas |
Under Review | A training and internship program that prepares those with a high school diploma or GED for well-paying jobs in the IT industry. |
Penn Resiliency Program |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to reduce depressive symptoms among middle-school students. |
Peer-Assisted Social Learning (PASL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer-assisted social learning program that aims to improve social problem-solving skills in low-income youth through a curriculum delivered by trained staff in an after-school community setting. |
Peer Support Systems for Bullying |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to reduce bullying and other conflict by training students in peer support systems and conflict resolution strategies. |
Peer Group Connection (PGC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to ease the transition into high school by using older high school students to help freshmen learn skills necessary to academic success and, ultimately, prevent dropout during the critical first and second years of high school. |
Peer Assistance and Leadership (PAL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer-based program targeted towards school-aged children to address risk and protective factors associated with youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and reduce the risk of youth participation in violence. |
Pediatric Overweight Prevention through Parent Training Program (POP) |
Insufficient Evidence | An obesity prevention program designed to reduce obesity rates among Latino children by educating parents on optimal nutrition and physical activity over seven weekly classes. |
PeaceMakers |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent youth violence by improving interpersonal behaviors and boosting psychosocial skills. |
Peaceful Alternatives to Tough Situations (PATTS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to increase youth’s positive conflict-resolution skills and reduce vengeful and aggressive behavior. |
PeaceBuilders |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention curriculum for grades K-5 that teaches students and staff interaction principles that build social competence skills and reduce aggression. |
PEACE Pack |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide strategy aimed to reduce bullying behaviors and victimization among students. |
PBS KIDS Raising Readers Curriculum Supplement |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal media-enriched curriculum supplement that focuses on developing early literacy skills among children aged 2-8 years. |
PAX Good Behavior Game |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program that aims to reduce aggressive, disruptive behavior and other behavioral problems in children by creating a positive and effective learning environment. |
Pause, Breathe, Smile |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote well-being in elementary school children. |
Pathways To Change |
Insufficient Evidence | A computer-based smoking cessation program that aims to achieve successful smoking cessation by enrolling participants in an individualized behavioral intervention according to their stage of preparation to quit. |
Pathways Home |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to improve parenting behaviors and prevent reunification failures of children returning home to biological parents after first-time stays in foster care. |
Pathways for African American Success |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parenting and family communication program to avert risky sexual and substance use behaviors and prevent HIV among African American youth. |
Pathway Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program that aims to improve the reading and writing skills of English learners in middle school and high school, by training and supporting English teachers to provide students with explicit instruction and practice of the cognitive strategies required to understand, interpret, and write essays about complex text. |
Pathfinder Programs for Offenders Serving Probation Orders |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive skills training initiative designed to develop offenders’ problem solving, creative thinking, social, emotions management, negotiation, values enhancement, and critical reasoning skills. |
Passport to Literacy |
Insufficient Evidence | A supplemental multi-component intervention designed to improve the reading outcomes of struggling readers. |
PASS Reading Enhancement Program (PREP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A remedial reading comprehension program for primary school-aged children who are experiencing difficulty with reading and spelling. |
PASCET (Primary and Secondary Control Enhancement Training) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral therapy program for depressed children and adolescents that teaches appropriate coping mechanisms for different types of distressing situations. |
Partners in Parenting |
Insufficient Evidence | A tailored web-based parenting program to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety problems. |
Parents, Students, and Teachers for Healthy Eating (PAPPAS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to promote healthy eating habits among adolescents, ultimately to reduce the increase in students’ Body Mass Index (BMI). |
Parents Plus Early Years |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program that aims to empower parents to build positive relationships with their child and to promote child development. |
Parents Plus Children’s Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to reduce and prevent child behavior problems by providing parents with positive parenting and discipline strategies. |
Parents Plus Adolescents Program (PPAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reduce adolescent antisocial and problem behaviors by teaching parents positive parenting and discipline strategies. |
Parents Plus – Parenting When Separated (PP-PWS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed for separated parents to develop skills for coping and effective co-parenting. |
Parents as Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that supports positive child development by providing information and guidance to parents and by helping parents in being the first teachers of their children. |
Parents and Tots Together (PTT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group lesson that aims to reduce body mass index (BMI) and promote healthy eating and exercise among children by changing parenting strategies and behaviors. |
Parents and Children Talking Together (PCTT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to decrease child problem behavior by improving family communication. |
Parents and Children Making Connections – Highlighting Attention |
Insufficient Evidence | A family-based training program that aims to improve academic readiness and selective attention in preschoolers from lower socioeconomic families. |
Parenting With Love and Limits (PLL) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reestablish parenting authority, improve parent-child interaction, and reduce behavior problems and criminal offending of youth. |
Parenting Wisely |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reduce behavior problems in at-risk children by teaching effective parenting skills to families. |
Parenting Video-Feedback Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed for mothers with postnatal depression to improve parenting skills, and in return, the quality of the mother-child interaction. |
Parenting Toolkit |
Insufficient Evidence | An online parent training program designed to increase parents’ self-efficacy and improve their disciplinary responses to child oppositional behavior, ultimately intending to reduce problem behavior among at-risk adolescents. |
Parenting Partnership |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to reduce family risk and increase family protective factors related to child substance abuse, family stress, and emotional difficulties. |
Parenting Mindfully |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mindfulness program for stressed parents of adolescents that aims to increase parent-adolescent relationship quality and reduce adolescent problem behaviors. |
Parenting Education Program (PEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to enhance positive parenting behaviors and family relationships |
Parenting Adolescents: A Creative Experience (PACE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to improve parents’ communication skills and relationships with adolescents in order to reduce adolescent risk factors implicated in youth suicide. |
Parental Training for Lone Mothers Guided by Educators (PALME) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed for single mothers to reduce maternal depression, which helps to stabilize the mother-child relationship. |
Parental Skills and Attachment in Early Childhood (CAPEDP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-visitation program that aims to ultimately improve child mental health by preventing and reducing postnatal depression symptoms in mothers and improving the quality of the home environment. |
Parent-Delivered Early Language Enrichment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-delivered academic service to enhance language skills among preschool-aged children. |
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy – Emotional Development (PCIT-ED) |
Insufficient Evidence | A family therapy program designed to successfully treat early onset of depression among preschool children. |
Parent-Child Assistance Program (P-CAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home visitation program designed for high-risk substance-abusing women to assist them in obtaining substance abuse treatment, maintaining recovery, resolving problems associated with substance abuse, and fostering a safe environment for their children. |
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