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 | ||
|---|---|---|
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. |
¡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. |
Alternative to Suspension for Violent Behavior |
Insufficient Evidence | A conflict resolution training program that aims to reduce further violence among violent adolescents and their parents through the development of social problem-solving and thinking skills. |
Alternatives to Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to reduce prison infractions among inmates by developing strategies for violence avoidance. |
Amazing Alternatives! Home Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A primary prevention program designed to promote communication between parents and their children, improve parenting skills (such as monitoring and supervision), and reduce underage drinking. |
Amity In-Prison Therapeutic Community |
Insufficient Evidence | A therapeutic community approach designed to reduce recidivism by providing in-prison structure and support for incarcerated substance abusers. Treatment extends into communities through the use of aftercare facilities. |
Anasazi Foundation: The Making of a Walking |
Insufficient Evidence | A wilderness therapy program for adolescents 12-17 years of age with emotional, behavioral, or substance use problems. |
Anger and Other Emotions Management |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to reduce rates of recidivism among violent offenders by decreasing violent behavior and aggressive acts through skill-based training in pro-social behavior and emotion management. |
Anger Control Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based therapeutic approach designed to increase social-problem and self-control skills and reduce aggressive behavior among junior high students exhibiting high rates of classroom or community disruption. |
Anger Coping Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An anger management program that aims to reduce disruptive aggressive behavior and increase self-esteem among early adolescent boys in the classroom and home settings. |
Anger Management Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief group-based intervention that aims to reduce anger, aggression, and disruptive behavior among prisoners. |
Assertion Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based assertion training approach that aims to reduce aggression among adolescents. |
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