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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Burn and Earn |
Insufficient Evidence | A recreational program that aims to maintain or decrease Body Mass Index (BMI) among first-year college students through the establishment of healthy exercise habits. |
Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiment |
Insufficient Evidence | A restorative justice program designed to reduce recidivism among juvenile and adult offenders by offering an alternative sentence to traditional adjudication. |
CARE (school organization program) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school organization program designed to help schools define problems and set organizational goals. |
Care Management Intervention for American Indian/Alaska Native Patients |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to provide culturally sensitive care management to physically injured American Indian and Alaska Native trauma survivors. |
Career-Themed Programs of Study (POS) |
Insufficient Evidence | Legislatively-mandated programs designed to prepare upcoming high school graduates for college and a career. |
Caring School Community (formerly Child Development Project) |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive classroom program designed to strengthen students’ connectedness to school in order to increase motivation for academic achievement while reducing delinquency, drug use, and violence. The program also strives to improve the school environment, enhance prosocial behavior, and boost children’s commitment to prosocial goals and values. |
Catch Kids Club |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to teach children the skills to make health dietary and physical activity choices at school, in the community, and at home through Youth Specialist interactions. |
CATCH My Breath |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief, school-based program designed to prevent e-cigarette use initiation among middle school students by increasing social competence and refusal skills for prevention of tobacco use. |
Caught in the Crossfire |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer-based violence prevention program designed to: a) prevent retaliatory violence in injured adolescents; b) reduce entry and reentry into the criminal justice system; c) reduce the total number of youth injured and killed by interpersonal violence; d) promote alternatives to violence for youth; and e) provide positive peer role models. |
CeaseFire in South Carolina |
Insufficient Evidence | A crime prevention program that aims to reduce the prevalence of gun crime through targeted prosecution and increased public education. |
CEPIDEA |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to promote prosocial behavior among seventh graders through regular prosocial learning sessions and integration of prosocial material into classroom lessons. |
Challenging College Alcohol Abuse |
Insufficient Evidence | A social norms and environmental management program that aims to a) correct misperceptions, increase knowledge, and change attitudes about alcohol and drug use behaviors among undergraduate students; b) change policies and practices related to alcohol and drug use and abuse among campus fraternity and sorority chapters; c) change faculty, administration, parental, community, and policymaker perceptions to prevent perpetuation of alcohol and drug myths; and d) to increase restrictions on alcohol availability and monitor on- and off-campus distribution and consumption. |
Charlotte School Safety Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce crime in the Nation’s schools by changing the attitudes and behaviors of students and encouraging them to act as agents of change with new skills and knowledge. |
Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to utilize the police in ways that allow them to be crime prevention mechanisms rather than reactors to crime. |
Chicago Child-Parent Center (CPC) Preschool Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A center-based early intervention that aims to increase school achievement by providing educational and family support services to at-risk children. |
Child Advocacy Centers |
Insufficient Evidence | Child-focused facility-based programs designed to improve the community collaborative response to child sexual abuse and the criminal justice processing of child sexual abuse cases. |
Child-Parent Psychotherapy |
Insufficient Evidence | Relationship-based intervention for children aged birth through 5 years who are showing mental health or behavioral problems, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Goals include: 1) to reduce the occurrence and re-occurrence of abuse and neglect; 2) to enhance the child’s developmental functioning; 3) to improve the parent-child relationship; 4) to increase expeditious permanency placements; and 5) to develop a model for intervention and treatment that could potentially be replicated at different sites. |
ChildCARE |
Insufficient Evidence | A selective prevention program that aims to improve academic performance and school satisfaction among children whose parents are affected by HIV/AIDs by improving the resilience and coping mechanisms of the children and bolstering their family and community support systems. |
Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe (CHSUBS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum that aims to protect children by teaching them the skills they need to prevent or interrupt child abuse, bullying, and neglect. |
Children’s Support Group |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to teach children skills to better deal with divorce-related emotions and events. |
Chronic Truancy Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | An school- and community-based strategy designed to reduce absenteeism and other behavioral problems among chronically truant youth in the kindergarten and elementary grades. |
Cincinnati / Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) |
Insufficient Evidence | A neighborhood-level initiative that aims to reduce and prevent gang violence and gang-related homicides by identifying potential gang members and targeting them for education, job services, and support in an effort to provide a viable alternative to gang activity and membership. |
Class 1 Employment |
Insufficient Evidence | A corrections-based employment program that uses partnerships with private sector businesses to increase post-incarceration employment and reduce recidivism. |
Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based universal prevention program that aims to promote appropriate classroom and on-task behavior in elementary school children through weekly sessions delivered by teachers in the regular classroom setting. |
Class-Wide Positive Behavioral Support |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based behavioral management program designed to promote a positive classroom climate at the secondary level. |
Click City: Tobacco |
Insufficient Evidence | An interactive computer-based program designed to prevent tobacco use among youth by targeting the cognitive mechanisms that are theorized to be the first steps in smoking initiation (e.g., behavioral intentions, willingness). |
Cognitive & Behavioral Family Therapies |
Insufficient Evidence | Multi-component family therapies designed to reduce parent-child relationship conflicts and child non-compliance among teenagers diagnosed with ADHD and ODD. |
Cognitive Accelertion through Science Education |
Insufficient Evidence | Group-based activities that aim to promote student learning in the domains of scientific thinking, numeracy, spatial awareness, and socialization among children five through six years of age. |
Cognitive and Social Skills Training Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based training program designed to promote social and cognitive skills among low-achieving high school students through rehearsal of modeled behavior. |
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Child Welfare (CBIT-CW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-session group intervention that aims to reduce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and depression resulting from exposure to abuse among girls in the child welfare system. |
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools with Cultural Adaptations (CBITS-CA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-session group intervention that aims to reduce the post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms of young offenders living in juvenile rehabilitation facilities. |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorder |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approach that aims to reduce symptoms of anxiety in children. |
Cognitive Self Change |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based treatment that aims to prevent adult recidivism by helping offenders recognize their own cognitive distortions and understand how these distortions result in criminal behavior. |
Cognitive Training and Response Cost Procedures |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to modify aggressive behavior in elementary school children through numerous cognitive restructuring sessions. |
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorder (Individual vs. Group) |
Insufficient Evidence | A therapeutic intervention designed to treat anxiety and other phobic disorders in children. |
Cognitively Enhanced Home Visitation Intervention (HV+) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitively-enhanced home-visitation program designed to promote positive child outcomes and parenting practices. |
Collaborative Care for Injured Adolescents |
Insufficient Evidence | A collaborative care program designed to reduce violence, alcohol and drug use, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression among adolescents. |
Collaborative Life Skills (CLS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A skills-training program that aims to lessen the severity of students’ attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms by integrating school, parent, and student treatments delivered by school-based mental health providers. |
Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A therapeutic program designed to reduce aggressive and oppositional behavior among children through problem-solving and conflict resolution. |
Comet (Communication Method) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent-training program that aims to reduce disruptive and aggressive child behaviors while improving child-parent interactions. |
Common Ground |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to reduce underage alcohol use, alcohol-impaired driving, and excessive drinking among college students using environmentally-focused prevention strategies. |
Community Action Program for Children |
Insufficient Evidence | Multidimensional, community-based healthcare and welfare services for families of at-risk young children in Canada. |
Community as Classroom |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase student motivation and engagement that, in turn, leads to improved academic and behavioral outcomes. |
Community Family Court |
Insufficient Evidence | A juvenile justice program that aims to: 1) increase public safety; 2) increase family protection and safety; 3) improve family functioning and self-sufficiency; and 4) enhance system collaboration and service integration. |
Community Health Access Project (CHAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-based program that aims to improve the likelihood of a healthy gestation and birth by locating at-risk pregnant women and connecting them to appropriate health and social services. |
Community Parent Education Program (COPE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based parent education program that aims to provide parents with strategies to manage their child’s behavioral problems. |
Community Programming Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | A social norms and bystander intervention program that aims to reduce sexual assault on college campuses and change norms surrounding sexually aggressive behaviors. |
Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to reduce alcohol-related accidental injuries and death by instituting a comprehensive program of environmental prevention activities and policy changes. |
Community Violence Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based mentoring program that aims to reduce at least one of the three risk factors that were used to identify eligible participants: number of unexcused school absences, number of school suspensions, and number of criminal infractions committed on school property. |
Community-Based College Preparation Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to provide year-round academic support for disadvantaged children and teenagers to facilitate their transition to college. |
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