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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
Viewpoints
Inconclusive Evidence

A juvenile corrections-based program to decrease antisocial behaviors, including aggression, by developing social and cognitive skills.

Web ABC
Inconclusive Evidence

A web-based program for Chinese American adolescents and their parents to promote healthy lifestyle choices and healthy bodies.

Wellbeing Program
Inconclusive Evidence

An internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for adults that aims to treat depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder both with and without agoraphobia.

Wilson Reading
Inconclusive Evidence

A reading program that aims to improve the decoding and encoding skills of struggling readers from second grade through adulthood. The focus is on direct and systematic instruction of phonemic awareness, decoding and word study, sight word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development, and comprehension.

Wolf Trap Arts in Education: Arts Integration
Inconclusive Evidence

A professional development program for prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers that aims to improve their students’ academic and social skills through the incorporation of performing arts strategies in instruction.

Women on the Road to Health (WORTH)
Inconclusive Evidence

A program for community corrections settings that combines four in-person group sessions with either face-to-face learning or computerized self-paced modules, both designed to reduce the risk of intimate partner victimization among substance using women.

Work Release (Adult Practice)
Inconclusive Evidence

This is a transitional intervention to reduce post-release recidivism by allowing offenders to hold regular jobs in the community during the last few months of incarceration

Working on Womanhood (WOW)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based group counseling program that seeks to improve the mental health of female adolescents by enhancing individual competencies to make positive and healthy decisions.

X:IT
Inconclusive Evidence

A year-long school-based program with a social influence approach that aims to reduce adolescent smoking through environmental, parental, and educational components.

Xtreme Reading
Inconclusive Evidence

A classroom-based program for struggling adolescent readers that aims to bring their reading skills up to proficiency.

Year Up Professional Training Corps
Inconclusive Evidence

A training and internship program that takes place on college campuses to help young people with limited post-secondary education learn how to work with technology, develop employment skills, extend their education, and obtain good jobs.

Young Parenthood Program (YPP)
Inconclusive Evidence

A community or home-based counseling program for expectant adolescent couples that is designed to improve positive parenting by supporting interpersonal skill development.

Youth COMPASS
Inconclusive Evidence

An online acceptance and commitment therapy program that aims to promote adolescent mental health through weekly modules and written feedback designed to encourage integrity, goal setting, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

Youth Fit 4 Life
Inconclusive Evidence

An after-school program with the aim of reducing and preventing childhood obesity through teaching self-regulation skills, presenting nutritional information, and participating in physical activity.

Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II)
Inconclusive Evidence

A social support program that aims to supplement routine care for suicidal adolescents following psychiatric hospitalization by providing psychoeducation to youth-nominated adult social support providers.

¡Miranos!
Insufficient Evidence

A parent-based program that aims to decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity through face-to-face parent meetings, take-home activities, and educational materials, all of which provide information on and encourage healthy behaviors in children.

1st Class@Number
Insufficient Evidence

A mathematics lesson program designed for elementary school students struggling with mathematics to help them make faster progress and catch up with their peers.

30 Days to Family
Insufficient Evidence

A short-term, intensive intervention to place children in the foster care system with relatives and to return the children from foster care sooner than normal.

Academic Achievement and Physical Activity Across the Curriculum
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to increase academic achievement in elementary school children by training teachers to deliver academic instruction in conjunction with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.

Acadiana Coalition of Teens Against Tobacco (ACTT)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based drug prevention program that seeks to reduce the use of tobacco among high school students, specifically targeting 30-day cessation rates.

ACCEL
Insufficient Evidence

A substance abuse prevention program that primarily targets African American children and families living in poverty.

Accelerated Reader
Insufficient Evidence

A web-based intervention that encourages independent reading among early adolescents.

Access to Inspiration and Motivation (AIM) Program
Insufficient Evidence

An after-school program that attempts to build skills among early adolescents through outdoor activities, academic studies, and community service.

Accumulated Brisk Walking Program
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to change the body composition of children through short bouts of brisk walking accumulated across a 15-week period.

Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-wide training and support program that aims to reduce dropout rates and increase school engagement and achievement by working closely with students and parents.

Across Ages
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-setting treatment program that aims to promote community and individual resiliency among youth at risk for drug use. The program targets several domains, including the individual, family, school, peer, and community/neighborhood spheres.

ACS Confirm
Insufficient Evidence

A detention reduction program that aims to improve the amount of information made available to justice professionals, particularly judges, when deciding whether to detain a young person in foster care. In addition, the program seeks to reduce the disparity in detention between foster and non-foster children, as well as minimize placement transfers and use of emergency facilities for youth in foster care.

ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids Program (ACT-PRSK)
Insufficient Evidence

An interactive parent program that aims to reduce misbehavior among children and the use of violent disciplinary actions among parents by teaching family-based parenting skills and improving communication between parents and children.

Active Parenting
Insufficient Evidence

A video-based parent education program that aims to change parents’ attitudes toward their children, as well as improve parents’ child rearing techniques.

Active Teaching
Insufficient Evidence

A consultative intervention that aims to increase teacher effectiveness through video vignettes and textbooks.

Activity Knowledge Circuit
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based, cross-curricular physical activity intervention that aims to improve cardiovascular disease risk profiles among young adolescents by increasing in-school physical activity by two hours.

Ada County Attendance Court
Insufficient Evidence

A youth diversion program designed to reduce school truancy and tardiness, thereby decreasing the likelihood of dropout and future criminal offenses.

Ada Sheriff’s Youth Foundation (SYF)
Insufficient Evidence

An after-school enrichment program that aims to promote protective factors that guard against negative life outcomes among at-risk youth. These negative, life-affecting outcomes include: 1) delinquency; 2) dropping out of school; 3) illegal use of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco; 4) unwanted teenage pregnancy; and 5) being held back in school.

Addressing Substance-Related Offending (ASRO)
Insufficient Evidence

A group-based program designed to reduce substance-related crime by targeting substance abuse among offenders serving community service sentences.

ADHD Program
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based multi-component program designed to enable the appropriate responding of teachers to the educational expectations of students with ADHD. The program provides mainstream elementary school teachers with systematic training in behavioral modification and cognitive-behavioral techniques, as well as instructional management strategies.

Adolescent Decision-Making for the Positive Youth Development Collaboration (ADM-PYDC)
Insufficient Evidence

An after-school group program that attempts to boost decision-making and other substance use prevention skills and provide health education and cultural heritage skills in order to reduce substance use among adolescents.

Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based educational curriculum that aims to improve adolescent awareness and knowledge of depression in order to destigmatize the illness and increase help-seeking.

Adolescent Diversion Program (ADP)
Insufficient Evidence

A home-visiting program designed as an alternative to legal proceedings that aims to reduce recidivism and improve family relations through regular visits from a family worker.

Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT) Program
Insufficient Evidence

An outpatient prevention program that targets areas of deficit and vulnerability among adolescent substance abusers referred directly by law enforcement personnel for intervention.

Adolescent Portable Therapy
Insufficient Evidence

An outpatient family-based service that aims to reduce substance abuse and recidivism among adolescents within the juvenile justice system. The program also aims to improve the educational, social, mental, and physical well-being of youth and their families.

Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
Insufficient Evidence

A set of elective high school courses designed to help students with mid-range academic performance and from traditionally underserved populations to graduate on time and enroll in college.

Advancing School and Community Engagement Now for Disease Prevention (ASCEND)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based and family reinforced education program that aims to reduce and prevent childhood obesity and related social and medical issues through nutritional education and physical activity breaks.

Aggression Replacement Training (Adult)
Insufficient Evidence

A skill-based program that aims to reduce the risk of further violence and recidivism among violent offenders through the identification, development, and practice of social skills for prosocial behavior.

Aggression Replacement Training (ART)
Insufficient Evidence

A skill-based program that aims to reduce rates of recidivism, enhance community function, and teach alternative prosocial behaviors through skill acquisition, anger control, and enhanced moral reasoning.

Aggressors, Victims & Bystanders
Insufficient Evidence

A violence reduction program designed to change beliefs that lead to violent behavior and teach students skills to de-escalate situations that could become violent.

Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Insufficient Evidence

An early childhood curriculum designed to promote pro-social skill development, self-control, positive social interactions, problem-solving, healthy-decision making, and conflict resolution among young children.

All Children Excel (ACE)
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-faceted, multi-agency intervention approach that seeks to promote the healthy development of juvenile offenders under the age of 10 who are at risk for chronic, violent offending later in life.

All Stars
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to decrease high-risk behaviors such as substance use, violence, and premature sexual activity among early adolescents.

All Stars Challenge
Insufficient Evidence

A classroom-based behavior management program designed to help students understand social norms for getting along through structured weekly activities.

Allgemeine Lebenskompetenzen und Fertigkeiten (ALF; general life competencies and skills)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to lower substance affinity and reduce the number of child substance abuse cases.

Contact

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.