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 | ||
|---|---|---|
D.A.R.E.’s Revised Elementary School Curriculum |
Insufficient Evidence | A revised school-based curriculum that seeks to promote active learning by enhancing students’ participation in lessons that include opportunities for students to 1) apply their decision-making skills to drug offers, 2) learn to cope with pressures faced in adolescence, and 3) develop an understanding of the low prevalence of peers’ substance use. |
Dads Matter |
Insufficient Evidence | The program aims to improve father-child and mother-father relationships, reduce parent stress, and reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect by engaging fathers in perinatal home visits. |
Daily Behavior Report Cards |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to decrease students’ disruptive classroom behavior through delivery of regular email reports from teachers to parents. |
Dallas Anti-Gang Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | An anti-gang initiative that aims to reduce gang violence by placing police officers in areas known to be frequented by violent gangs and incorporating several different enforcement strategies, including saturation patrols, truancy enforcement, and curfew monitoring. |
Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender Program |
Insufficient Evidence | Aims to reduce the risk of recidivism and violence among prisoners with a mental disorder and a high risk of reoffending by improving the identification process and providing additional mental health treatment post-release. |
Dare to be You (DTBY) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-level prevention program designed to alter developmental trajectories that result in substance abuse. The program also aims to decrease the use of harsh punishment and improve behavior, interactions with parents, and developmental milestones of high-risk preschool-aged children. |
Dat-e Adolescence |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program for reducing dating violence. |
Dating Matters |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to promote healthy teen relationships and reduce teen dating violence through school-based classroom learning and community-based parent training. |
Dealing with Conflict |
Insufficient Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Decreasing Sedentary Behaviors to Treat Obesity |
Insufficient Evidence | An obesity prevention program designed to promote healthy weight in children and their parents through nutritional instruction, sedentary behavior reduction, and physical activity training. |
Delaware County Transition Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A transition program that aims to reduce recidivism by providing case management and reentry support to probationers with mental health and substance abuse issues. |
Delaware Therapeutic Community |
Insufficient Evidence | A work-release program designed to reduce drug relapse among parolees with previous substance abuse issues. |
Denver Area Youth Services (DAYS) La Familia |
Insufficient Evidence | A drug use prevention program that aims to target early risk factors that are highly predictive of later adolescent and adult tobacco, alcohol, and other drug problems while building upon individual, familial, and community resources that serve as protective factors. |
Detention Diversion Advocacy Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A diversion program designed to reduce the number of youths in court ordered detention by diverting them into community-based supervisory programs. The program also aims to integrate services across a cluster or organizations in order to ensure continuity of care and development of client skills for youths identified as most likely to be detained at a juvenile detention center. |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy – Case Management (DBT-CM) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral program designed to promote drug and alcohol abstinence in homeless, recently incarcerated female offenders by using dialectical thinking to reshape maladaptive behavioral patterns. |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program (DBT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral program designed to help patients reduce their self-destructive, impulsive, and aggressive behaviors through the use of skills training, problem-solving, and validation. |
Disarming the Playground |
Insufficient Evidence | A movement therapy program that aims to reduce violent and aggressive behaviors in schools by promoting personal and emotional efficacy. |
Discovery Curriculum (at Centennial High School) |
Insufficient Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Diversion: Juvenile Accountability Program & Youth Court Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A diversion program that aims to reduce recidivism rates and any further involvement with the juvenile justice system by treating youth through community diversion. |
Dog Training Program |
Insufficient Evidence | Prison-based programs designed to help offenders abstain from criminal behavior, and thus reduce disciplinary infractions and recidivism and increase post-release employment, by providing incarcerated inmates with opportunities to train, care for, and socialize dogs. |
dot b Mindfulness |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote well-being in young adolescents through weekly sessions delivered by mindfulness practitioners and teachers in a regular classroom setting. |
Doubles |
Insufficient Evidence | A substance abuse education curriculum that seeks to teach third and fourth grade students about the science of drug addiction and influence their attitudes toward drugs and alcohol. |
Dove Confident Me: Single Session |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve early adolescents’ body image through a single 90-minute lesson. |
Drama Group Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based intervention designed to improve interpersonal competencies and academic achievement and reduce emotional and behavioral problems among teacher-identified at-risk students. |
Drama programs for bullying prevention |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce bullying through improvements in social and emotional well-being at the classroom level. |
Draw the Line/Respect the Line |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce sexual risk behaviors and prevent HIV/STDs and pregnancy among middle school adolescents by assisting students in developing personal sexual limits and the skills necessary to maintain those limits when challenged. |
Drug Court: Anchorage |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-faceted treatment approach that aims to break the cycle of recidivism and substance abuse among drug offenders by directly targeting drug use while simultaneously encouraging independence and positive, self-sustaining behaviors. |
Drug Court: Anchorage DUI |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-faceted treatment approach that aims to break the cycle of recidivism and substance abuse among felony DUI offenders by directly targeting alcohol use while simultaneously encouraging independence and positive, self-sustaining behaviors. |
Drug Court: Bethel Therapeutic |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-faced treatment approach that aims to break the cycle of recidivism and substance abuse among chronic misdemeanor and felony offenders by directly targeting alcohol and other drug use while simultaneously encouraging independence and positive, self-sustaining behaviors. |
Drug Court: Hybrid with DUI |
Insufficient Evidence | A hybrid transitional program that aims to reduce recidivism and substance abuse among offenders with driving while intoxicated (DWI) and driving under the influence (DUI) convictions by tailoring treatment services to and offender’s severity of addiction. |
Drug Court: Judicial Status Hearings |
Insufficient Evidence | A judicial supervision program that aims to provide children criminal offenders with: an opportunity to be clean and sober; constructive support to aid in resisting further criminal activity; support to perform well in school and develop positive relationships in the community; and skills that will aid in leading productive substance- and crime-free lives. |
Drug Court: Maricopa County (Youth) |
Insufficient Evidence | A correctional program designed to reduce drug use and recidivism among youth by closely monitoring each participant through frequent court appearances, home visits, formal supervision, treatment services, and random drug testing. Additional program goals include promoting family support systems to provide supervision and support to youth after termination of involvement of the court, as well as helping youth develop positive relationships within the community. |
Drug Court: Multisite Adult |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-site adult crime prevention program that aims to reduce drug-related crime and prevent future illicit drug use among offenders with drug convictions by providing individualized treatment and rewarding abstinence through the use of collaborative, non-adversarial court processing. |
Drug Court: Multisite Juvenile |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-site juvenile transitional program that aims to break the cycle of recidivism, particularly with respect to alcohol- and drug-related offenses, among young offenders through group treatment, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and reduced sanctions as a result of good behavior and positive progress. |
Drug Prevention with Youth |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-session program designed to provide information and assistance to homeless shelter clients in an effort to help them develop the skills to understand their own and others’ drug problems. |
Dutch Inpatient Sex Offender Treatment |
Insufficient Evidence | A high-intensity, inpatient treatment program designed to reduce sexual and violent recidivism among Dutch sex offenders. |
Dutch National Campaign for School Safety |
Insufficient Evidence | A school- and community-based program that aims to reduce bullying and violence and improve overall school safety among Finnish schools through various strategies implemented locally and/or nationally. |
Dutch/Russian Program (Galperin) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase the accuracy of students’ perceptions of the moral atmosphere within their school. |
Earlscourt Girls’ Connection |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to treat aggressive and anti-social behavior in girls by teaching them and their parents effective anger management and other social skills along with teaching the parents effective parenting skills. |
Early Childhood Friendship Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce aggression and victimization and increase prosocial behavior in young children through the use of puppets, interactive classroom activities, and other elements that focus on friendship-making skills and dealing with physical and relational aggression. |
Early Learning in Mathematics (ELM) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 120-lesson in-school core mathematics program for kindergarten aged children designed to promote a broad and comprehensive knowledge base in mathematics. |
EasyPeasy Parenting App |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to improve child development for disadvantaged children in the early years through more effective parental engagement. |
eCHECKUP TO GO |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief, web-based program that aims to reduce alcohol use and the negative consequences of drinking in adolescents by focusing on changing perceptions of social drinking norms among peers. |
Education in Alimentation |
Insufficient Evidence | A health education intervention designed for primary school students to improve lifestyle choices and reduce obesity. |
Effective Black Parenting Program (EBPP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral parenting skill training designed to improve 1) parenting practices and child-parent relationships, 2) child behavior problems and competencies, and 3) child school adjustment and performance. |
EFFEKT-E |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program designed for families with a depressive parent to reduce the risk factors associated with a depressive parent and improve children’s social competence. |
Eigenstandig Werden (Becoming Independent) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to promote health and personality development in adolescents, particularly aiming at preventing substance-related addiction and bullying. |
El Joven Noble |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce violence and aggression in youth by establishing and maintaining healthy relationships with self, family, intimate partners, community, and culture. |
El Paso Coordinated Approach to Child Health (El Paso CATCH) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce overweight and overweight rates among elementary school children through a health and physical education curriculum, as well as improvements in cafeteria meal quality. |
Electronically Monitored Release Preparation |
Insufficient Evidence | A probation service that aims to prepare criminal offenders for release through electronically-monitored home detention or work supervision. |
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