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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Parent-Adolescent Relationship Education (PARE) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A curriculum that attempts to delay initiation of sexual activity and promote safe-sex practices by fostering parental involvement in the education of their children aged between 12 and 14. |
Parent Party Patrol (PPP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based drug prevention program designed to reduce adolescent involvement in unsupervised activities and substance use by providing parents with information about ways to increase monitoring and improve communication and family guidelines regarding substance use. |
Parent Panel |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief psycho-social intervention designed to train parents in how to communicate with their children about academics via a panel discussion session. |
Parent Management Training (PMT) |
Insufficient Evidence | This is a 14-week parent training program to reduce oppositional/defiant behaviors in children. |
Parent Management Training – Online (PMT-O) |
Insufficient Evidence | This is an 8-session online parent training program to reduce conduct problems in children. |
Parent Engagement Project (PEP) [Texting Parents] |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program designed to improve academic performance and attendance among secondary school students by keeping parents informed on their child’s school performance via text messages. |
Parent Connectors |
Inconclusive Evidence | A telephone-based parent support program designed to increase the engagement of parents of children with emotional disturbances in the education and mental health services their child receives, which, in return, increase the engagement of children in mental health services and improve child school functioning. |
Parent Child Mediation |
Insufficient Evidence | A family therapy program designed for families with delinquent youth to support family functioning and improve academic progress while reducing substance use and delinquency among youth. |
Parent Based Intervention for College Students |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-based alcohol prevention program designed to reduce alcohol use among incoming college students and sexual victimization as a result of heavy drinking by raising parental awareness of alcohol abuse and consequences among college students and increasing parental effort to address this issue with their teen. |
Parent Aide Services |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to reduce the risk of physical abuse and neglect by targeting parenting behavior and environmental challenges linked with child maltreatment risk. |
Parent Aide Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program that seeks to break the cycle of child maltreatment by providing free-of-charge in-home services to families referred by child protective services (CPS). |
OSTA |
Insufficient Evidence | A community supervision and aftercare program designed to reduce suicide among an at-risk population by implementing a follow-up protocol that uses communication strategies to engage subjects with treatment. |
Organizational Skills Training |
Not Dissemination Ready | A clinic-based program designed to ameliorate organization, time management, and planning difficulties in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and thereby improve behavior and academic functioning. |
Orange County Juvenile Substance Abuse Treatment Court |
Insufficient Evidence | A juvenile drug court/treatment program that focuses on breaking behavioral patterns of addiction, changing irrational thinking patterns, enhancing motivation for treatment, and providing exposure and access to supportive influences, as well as meeting educational and vocational needs and developing life skills. |
OPTIONS Program to Prevent Adolescent Aggression |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to prevent violent behavior among at-risk youth by developing interventions for youth and their parents and generating alternatives to arrest, detention, and prosecution. |
Operation Swordfish |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program designed to reduce residential burglary through police-led target-hardening of previously burgled homes. |
Operation SAVE KIDS |
Insufficient Evidence | To reduce truancy and instill a sense of responsibility in students and their parents. |
Opening the World of Learning (OWL) Building Blocks PreKindergarten Program |
Under Review | A prekindergarten program designed to improve children’s mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills. |
Opening Doors Learning Communities |
Inconclusive Evidence | The program aims to improve the success of community college students entering their freshman year by creating learning communities that integrate students into the social and academic life of college. |
Opening Doors |
Insufficient Evidence | A multifaceted prevention program designed for at-risk youth and their parents to prevent and reduce alcohol and drug use, school drop-out, and other behavioral problems among at-risk adolescents. |
Open Circle (Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to enhance students’ social competency and problem-solving skills. |
Op Volle Kracht |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and increase happiness, coping, and self-efficacy among adolescents. |
Only You Decide Who You Are / Alleen Jij Bepaalt Wie Je Bent (AJB) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based sports program intervention to prevent delinquency among at-risk youth. |
One Summer Plus (OSP) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A youth employment program designed to reduce adolescent crime by providing youth with summertime work and socio-emotional learning opportunities. |
One Act |
Insufficient Evidence | A training program designed to prevent sexual assault, stalking, dating violence and intimate partner violence by interrupting the bystander effect and taking action. |
Obesity Intervention Program (China) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent and reduce obesity among primary school children in Beijing, China through nutrition education and physical education curricula. |
Oakland Beat Health |
Inconclusive Evidence | A civil remedy program designed to reduce and prevent crime in certain areas by changing the appearance of the area. |
Nutrition on the Go |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to maintain the Body Mass Index (BMI) values and curb the growth of obesity in school children. |
Nuremberg Alliance against Depression (NAD) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to improve the awareness of depression and the care of patients with depression and subsequently reduce levels of suicides and suicide attempts. |
Numbershire Gaming Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A computer game-based mathematics intervention designed to help struggling 1st grade students develop better whole number skills and other basic math operational knowledge. |
Nuestras Familias: Andando Entre Culturas (Our Families: Moving Between Cultures) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program for Spanish-speaking Hispanic or Latino families with middle school-aged youth residing in the United States in an emerging immigration context to help their adolescent children respond effectively to the risks of substance use and unsafe sexual behavior. |
NoTrap! (Let’s not fall into the trap!) [Noncadiamointrappola!] |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based, peer-led intervention that intends to prevent and reduce both traditional bullying and cyber bullying. |
NOT (Not On Tobacco) |
Insufficient Evidence | A smoking cessation program to help youth to quit smoking or, at least, reduce usage and improve healthy lifestyle behaviors (physical activity and nutrition) and life skills (stress management, decision-making, coping, interpersonal skills). |
Noncadiamointrappola (web-based bullying-prevention) |
Insufficient Evidence | A web-based bullying prevention program that aims to reduce the perpetration and victimization of bullying and cyber-bullying through peer education. |
Nobody Slips Through the Net/ Keiner fallt durchs Netz (KfdN) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-visiting program designed to improve parenting skills to aid parents in coping with stress and improve child development. |
Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A model of care to improve outcomes for premature infants. |
New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that provides children of low-income families in the New York City attending public elementary schools with scholarships to attend private schools. |
New York City P-TECH 9-14 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A high school-based program that provides students opportunities and skills to engage in dual enrollment and in internships to increase high school graduation rates, postsecondary education enrollment, degree attainment, and employment. |
New Perspectives |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to prevent a persistent delinquent trajectory in at-risk adolescents through intensive coaching delivered by social workers. |
New London Orchestra’s (NLO) ‘Literacy through Music’ |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to support the development of children’s literacy, specifically reading comprehension, by improving their oral language skills and reinforcing/enhancing children’s perceptions of themselves as a ‘learner’. |
New Hope |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive set of integrated program services designed to address longstanding problems associated with the low-wage labor market, such as employment and economic self-sufficiency. |
New Forest Parenting Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent-training program that aims to treat childhood ADHD. |
New Beginnings (for children of divorce) – Dual Component Version |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based intervention for divorced parents and their children to promote resilience in children after parental divorce. |
New Beginnings |
Insufficient Evidence | A small-group school-based intervention to improve the social and emotional competence of young children, with the ultimate goal of preventing mental health difficulties. |
Neighborhoods Engaging with Students (NEST) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to reduce the use of alcohol and alcohol-related risky behaviors among college students. |
Need to Know (N2K) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce teen pregnancy by increasing knowledge and skills and improving attitudes for sexual health behaviors. |
NCRECE Professional Development for Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development program for pre-school teachers that aims to improve the quality of teacher-child interactions and thereby to reduce student absenteeism. |
National Guard Youth Challenge Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 3-stage program designed to provide high-risk youth with experiences, settings, and relationships that promote completion of education, successful employment, and positive behavior during the transition to adulthood. |
Narconon Truth about Drugs |
Insufficient Evidence | A drug-use prevention program that seeks to correct the prevalent but false messages that students receive about drugs, improve student interpersonal skills, and contribute to the development of appropriate group norms about drugs. |
Naltrexone Treatment for Opioid Abuse |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for criminal offenders with a history of opioid dependence designed to prevent relapse by providing injections of an extended-release formulation of naltrexone, a drug that blocks the euphoric effects of opioids. |
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