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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
Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (PATHS)
Insufficient Evidence

A curricular-based program that attempts to promote positive youth development in Hong Kong.

Positive Attitude
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based social emotional learning program that aims to improve social and emotional skills, attitudes, behavior, and academic performance.

Positive Greetings at the Door
Insufficient Evidence

A proactive teacher intervention to reduce middle school student problem behaviors and increase academic engagement.

Positive Parenting for Healthy Living
Insufficient Evidence

A group parenting intervention aimed at parents of children with asthma or eczema designed to improve parenting skills and parent adjustment and reduce child behavioral and emotional difficulties.

Positively Fit (PF)
Insufficient Evidence

A family-based program designed to reduce BMI and improve health-related quality of life among overweight children and adolescents.

Pragmatic School-Based Universal Resilience Intervention for Substance Use Reduction
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce and prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use in high school students by integrating protective factors into existing curricula.

Pre Kids’ Club and Moms’ Empowerment Program
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to reduce child internalizing behavior related to witnessing intimate partner violence.

Pre-to-Three Program
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based program designed to promote the health and development of children by creating partnerships among agencies to facilitate early identification of medical and developmental problems, provide a seamless system of care for young children, and to develop community capacity.

PREPARE
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-component program to improve sexual health behaviors and reduce intimate partner violence in eighth graders.

PREPARE (Proactive, Responsive, Empirical, and Proactive Alternatives in Regular Education)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-wide behavior management model designed to reduce problem-behavior among students by employing staff development strategies that encourage teachers to respond to the demands of behavior management proactively.

Preparing for Life
Insufficient Evidence

A home visiting program designed to improve shared reading between parents and children and ultimately improve cognitive development of children.

Pressley Ridges Treatment Foster Care
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program focused on fostering readiness that teaches prospective foster parents enhanced skills to help manage the behaviors of youth in their care through pre-service trainings.

Prevention of Overweight among Preschool and school children (POP)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based, multi-level program that aims to promote healthy eating habits, increase daily physical activity, and decrease screen-time among children.

Prevention Program for Externalizing Problem Behavior (PEP)
Insufficient Evidence

A prevention program designed to reduce symptoms of ADHD and ODD in children at risk for the development of these disorders.

Prevention through Puppetry (Friends From Sunshine Center)
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based summer program designed to increase positive social skills and decrease inappropriate behaviors in young children.

Preventive Dimensions Program
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to increase awareness and decrease use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, namely marijuana.

Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program
Insufficient Evidence

A prison-based job-placement program intended to increase employment and reduce recidivism among prisoners after release.

Prisoner Reentry Mediation Maryland
Insufficient Evidence

This reentry program to reduce recidivism uses one or more 2-hour mediation sessions to reunite inmates with their families, build prosocial relationships, and set clear expectations prior to release.

Problem Solving For Life (PSFL)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to teach adolescents problem solving skills and ultimately prevent depression and related mental health problems.

Problematic Sexual Behaviors Cognitive Behavior Therapy for School Age Children
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive behavioral therapy designed to reduce or eliminate incidents of problematic child sexual behavior.

Program for School Guidance (PAE)
Insufficient Evidence

An afterschool remedial education program designed to improve academic achievement of underperforming students.

Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS)
Insufficient Evidence

An outpatient social skills program that aims to improve friendship quality and social skills among teens diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.

Project ACHIEVE
Insufficient Evidence

A school reform that aims to design and implement effective school and schooling processes that maximize the academic and social/emotional/behavioral progress and achievement of all students.

Project Back-on-Track
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-faceted after-school program designed to divert youth in the early stages of delinquency from committing future criminal offences, thereby helping them to avoid lifelong recidivism.

Project BASIS
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to decrease misbehavior and increase appropriate behavior of middle-school students.

Project Chrysalis
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to reduce the use of alcohol and other drugs among female adolescents with histories of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and other negative consequences of childhood sexual abuse.

Project Greenlight
Insufficient Evidence

A prison-based reentry program designed to decrease recidivism.

Project K Youth Development Program
Insufficient Evidence

A youth development program that aims to increase social and academic self-efficacy through structured group activities, workshops, and mentoring.

Project L.E.A.N.
Insufficient Evidence

A health education and physical activity program designed for Hispanic elementary students, with lessons on healthy eating, exercise, diabetes and self-esteem.

Project Link
Insufficient Evidence

A hospital-based intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program designed to improve neonatal outcomes of pregnant substance abusers.

Project Naja
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed for African American adolescents to prevent or delay drug use, increase drug-refusal skills, and decrease early risky sexual activity and pregnancy by increasing resiliency factors and reducing risk factors.

Project READY (adolescent substance use)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based drug prevention program that aims to reduce substance use in adolescents through motivational interviewing-based treatment that encourages participants’ motivation to change behaviors.

Project SEEK
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed for young children of prison inmates to reduce the probability that these children will participate in delinquent and criminal behavior.

Project Success – Irvine, CA
Insufficient Evidence

A substance abuse prevention program designed to prevent or reduce alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among at-risk adolescents and to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors associated with adolescent substance use.

Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students)
Insufficient Evidence

A substance use prevention program designed to delay or reduce alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drug use among at-risk high school students.

Project Sync
Insufficient Evidence

A brief, hospital-based, cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to reduce violent victimization and antisocial, aggressive behavior among youth living in neighborhoods with elevated community violence rates.

Project Trust
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to reduce factors that contribute to violence among students, specifically, divisive student cliques that depend on and foster experiences of difference, mistrust, and exclusion.

Project Venture
Insufficient Evidence

A youth development program designed to reduce alcohol and drug use among high-risk Native American youth in grades 6 to 9.

Project WIN
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that teaches children “transforming power” and “integrative negotiation strategies.”

Prolonged Exposure Therapy
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral treatment program for individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Promoting Academic Retention for Tribal Youth (PARITY) Program
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce dropout rates and bolster resiliency in adolescents.

Promoting prosocial and emotional skills to counteract externalizing problems in adolescents
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to promote prosocial behavior in early adolescence.

Protecting You/Protecting Me (PY/PM)
Insufficient Evidence

A five-year, classroom-based alcohol-use prevention curriculum that aims to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in youth.

PsycheNet
Insufficient Evidence

A classroom-based program that aims to reduce eating disorder pathology, anxiety, depression, and low self-image among adolescents.

Psychosocial Nursing Education Program
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed for mothers of children with intellectual disability that aims to reduce the risk of depression among the mothers and enhance family functioning.

Pyramid Club
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based intervention aimed at improving self-esteem, social skills, and socio-emotional health of children with socio-emotional difficulties.

Raising a Thinking Child: I Can Problem-Solve for Families
Insufficient Evidence

A problem-solving skills program designed to alter children’s interpersonal thinking styles to enhance social adjustment and decrease impulsivity and inhibition.

Rational Emotive Behavioral Education Competence and Vienna Social Competence (REBE-ViSC)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based intervention designed to decrease bullying in adolescents by teaching students to recognize their negative emotions, to find alternatives to aggression, and to practice empathy and perspective-taking with other students.

Read Now
Insufficient Evidence

A remedial intervention that serves to provide a basic understanding of reading to nonreaders and those with pronounced reading difficulty.

Reading Edge
Insufficient Evidence

A literacy program that seeks to prepare students of all abilities to be strategic, independent, and motivated readers and learners.

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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.