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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mindfulness program to improve executive functioning in children. |
Milwaukee Safe Street Prisoner Release Initiative |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multifaceted approach to adult crime that combines needs-based employment and wraparound services for prisoners. |
Military Family Foundations |
Insufficient Evidence | A universal prevention program for military couples designed to improve birth outcomes, reduce family aggression, enhance child mental and behavioral health, and enhance parent mental and physical health through promoting coparenting quality among couples at the transition to parenthood. |
Midwestern Prevention Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A comprehensive community-based program designed to decrease the rates of onset and prevalence of drug use (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana) in young adolescents (aged 10-15) and to decrease drug use among parents and other residents of intervention communities. |
Michigan Model for Health |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention curriculum designed to decrease students’ use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. |
Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention program that aims to prevent opioid-addicted patients from continued use of harmful opioids by taking methadone to alleviate withdrawal symptoms, reduce opiate cravings, and bring about a biochemical balance in the body. |
Mentally Ill Offender Community Transition Program (MIOCTP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-disciplinary program that aims to reduce recidivism among recent released offenders whose mental illness was instrumental in their previous crimes. |
Mental Illness-Chemical Abuse Treatment Program (MICA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to reduce recidivism, improve mental health outcomes, and decrease substance abuse among a dually diagnosed incarcerated population through the use of institutional therapeutic communities and community-based support after release. |
Mental Health for Immigrants Program (MHIP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive behavioral therapy program designed to improve the mental health of immigrant children exposed to community violence or suffering from mental health issues related to immigration and its potential traumatic effects. |
Mental Health Courts: Multisite Study (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety and to prevent recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Mental Health Court: Southeast US (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | The program aims to reduce recidivism among mentally ill offenders and in doing so reduce court loads, local jail and prison overcrowding while insuring public safety. |
Mental Health Court: San Francisco (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to increase public safety by reducing the likelihood of re-arrest and time in jail among offenders with mental illness. |
Mental Health Court: Butte County (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety, to better support mentally ill offenders with mental health services and other provisions to increase their quality of life, and to reduce recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Mental Health Court: Broward County (Practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety and to reduce recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Mental Health Court: Anchorage (Practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety and to reduce recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Mental Health Court: ACT Model (Practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety and to reduce recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to convert positive thoughts and images among children into effective action to improve academic performance. |
MEND |
Insufficient Evidence | A family-based community intervention that aims to reduce childhood obesity. |
Men As Allies |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to reduce high school students’ rape-supportive attitudes and behaviors. |
MEMO CBT |
Insufficient Evidence | A mobile phone depression prevention program designed to reduce depressive symptoms among adolescents. |
Mellow Babies |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group intervention that aims to reduce maternal depression and improve mother-infant interactions. |
Medical College of Georgia FitKid Project (MCG FitKid) |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that increases moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in the two hours after school to reduce sedentary behavior, increase exercise, and improve fitness and health. |
Media Smart |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce eating disorders and risk factors for eating problems and weight gain among adolescents. |
Media Ready |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based media literacy program that aims to reduce the influence of unrealistic and misleading media images on the use of alcohol and tobacco. |
Media Literacy Health Education |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based media literacy program targeting the specific topic of performance and appearance enhancing substances among high school students. |
Media Heroes (Medienhelden) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based prevention program that aims to reduce and prevent cyber bullying in adolescents. |
Media Detective Family Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A computer-based program that aims to reduce use of alcohol and tobacco by elementary-school aged children in rural areas through increased media literacy of both parents and children. |
Media Detective |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief school-based media literacy education and substance use prevention program. |
Media Aware |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online program meant to reduce sexual risk behaviors and improve attitudes and intentions about sex. |
Media aggression intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to reduce the use of media violence and aggressive behavior among adolescents. |
Me & You |
Inconclusive Evidence | An in-person and online intervention to reduce dating violence among early adolescents. |
Maytiv (Doing Good) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase students’ life satisfaction, positive emotions, and positive peer relationships while decreasing their negative emotions through teacher-taught lessons on topics such as gratitude, kindness and compassion, mindfulness, and goal setting. |
Mathalicious + Project Groundswell |
Insufficient Evidence | A math curriculum designed to explore multiple facts of real-world questions in making mathematics concepts more clear and boosting math achievement. |
Math Recovery |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to to identify students who are struggling with mathematics and improve their mathematics skills through tutoring by trained, certified teachers. |
Math Expressions |
Insufficient Evidence | A curriculum that combines student-centered and teacher-centered approaches to increase the math achievement of kindergarten through fifth grade children. |
MATCH (Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An integrative approach to treating children and adolescents who present either one or a combination of mental health problems relating to anxiety, depression, trauma or disruptive conduct. |
Massachusetts Wraparound Zone Initiative (WAZ) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive initiative to help struggling schools improve student outcomes through both academic and nonacademic supports. Specific goals include improved English language arts and mathematics scores and attendance as well as reduced suspensions. |
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A tobacco control program that aims at: 1) preventing young people from using tobacco products by educating them and reducing their access to tobacco products; 2) persuading and helping smokers to quit smoking; and 3) protecting non-smokers by reducing their exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). |
Mass Media Intervention to Reduce Early Adolescent Alcohol Use |
Insufficient Evidence | A media campaign designed to reduce alcohol use by early adolescents. |
Maryland Opportunities Through Vouchers Experiment |
Insufficient Evidence | A transitional community-based program that aims to reduce crime and recidivism among individuals who were recently released from prison by providing a subsidy for 6-months of free housing to move to a new city. |
Martial Arts Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims at reducing violent and inappropriate classroom behaviors and delinquency among high risk middle school-aged boys through ego-building, discipline-rich traditional martial arts training. |
Martha’s True Stories (MTS) Buddies Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cross-age peer learning program designed to improve vocabulary and comprehension among kindergarten and elementary school students. |
Marte Meo |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to enhance teachers’ ability to support children with externalizing behavior. |
Manville Moves (Cybercycling) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce classroom behavioral problems and ultimately improve learning in children. |
Mandatory Prison Diversion Programs for Drug Offenders/ Senate Bill 123 (SB 123) |
Insufficient Evidence | A senate bill that aims to reduce prison overpopulation and recidivism rates by diverting first-time drug felony offenders to community corrections supervision in lieu of a prison sentence. |
Making the Smart Choice |
Insufficient Evidence | A training program designed for students suspended for committing a violent act at school and their family that aims to reduce school-based violence by focusing on areas of conflict resolution, anger management, and communication. |
Making Pre-K Count + High 5s |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge for low-income kindergarten students. |
Making Pre-K Count |
Insufficient Evidence | A teacher training program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge for low-income preschool students. |
Making Choices and Strong Families Programs |
Insufficient Evidence | Programs designed to reduce peer rejection and problems associated with conduct disorder in children and to improve parenting skills in parents of the same children. |
Make Parenting a Pleasure (MPAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program that aims to increase positive parenting skills and decrease perceived stress in low-income parents. |
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