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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Spectrum Wilderness Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative justice program designed to reduce arrest and/or incarceration and preventing or reducing delinquency though a wilderness stress challenge. |
Spiritual Education Program (SEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based spiritual intervention deisgned to enhance social interaction skills and reduce social anxieties among introverted children. |
SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness Parent Flyers (Postcards) |
Insufficient Evidence | A mail-based program that aims to reduce adolescent alcohol and drug use by sending three postcards to parents with information and encouragement to talk to their teens about health and fitness. |
Sport-2-Stay-Fit |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase participation in sports and physical activity among children and adolescents with physical disabilities. |
Start Strong |
Insufficient Evidence | A multicomponent initiative designed to reduce teen dating violence by focusing on teaching middle school students a variety of skills that promote healthy relationships through community and school environmental changes. |
Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A mental health program intended to provide integrated behavioral health services (mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment) for young children and their families. |
Starting Strong |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase students’ readiness for kindergarten and reduce the incidence of disruptive classroom behaviors through improving the parent-teacher and student-teacher relationships. |
Stay Cool Kids |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce externalizing and aggressive behavior in aggressive children at elementary schools and to prevent the development of disruptive behavior disorders. |
Stay on Track |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce drug use among sixth through eighth graders by helping students assess the risk associated with substance abuse, enhancing their decision-making and social skills, strengthening anti-drug beliefs and attitudes and reducing substance abuse. |
Steering Clear Project, Family-Based Smoking Prevention |
Insufficient Evidence | A family-oriented smoking prevention program intended to reduce the onset of smoking in at-risk children with high susceptibility (the absence of a firm resolve not to smoke). |
Step Up |
Insufficient Evidence | A group intervention for families with court-involved youth that aims to address youth-initiated patterns of domestic violence. |
Stewards of Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A childcare training program designed to prevent childhood sexual abuse by educating caretakers on prevention and risks of sexual abuse. |
STORIES & Skillstreaming Social Competency Programs |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve the social competence of children with emotional disabilities through promotion of effective problem solving skills and reduced aggressive and externalizing behaviors, using stories and the peer group processes as mechanisms for increasing strategies available for interpreting situations. |
Strategies & Tools to Embrace Prevention with Upstream Programs (STEP UP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A middle school curriculum that seeks to bolster social and emotional competence for the specific purpose of preventing aggressive and self-destructive behaviors, including suicide. |
Strategies to Enhance Positive Parenting (STEPP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group skill-building program designed to enhance parenting skills of single mothers with children diagnosed with ADHD, thereby improving parental stress and psychopathology and reducing problematic child behavior. |
Strong and Clear |
Insufficient Evidence | A multicomponent, school-based program designed to prevent underage drinking through improving family relationships, strengthening parents’ restrictive attitudes towards youths’ alcohol use, and making agreements between parents and children. |
Strong Communities for Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A universal, community-wide approach to prevention of maltreatment of children by strengthening community support networks for families, particularly those with young children. |
Strong Kids |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve social and emotional skills in elementary school students through improving skills of self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, social management, and responsible decision-making. |
Strong Minds |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program intended to improve wellbeing and reduce the likelihood of developing anxiety and depression among high school students using emotional regulation strategies. |
Structured Preschool Efforts in Language and Literacy (SPELL) |
Insufficient Evidence | An early childhood education program designed to improve children’s language and literacy skills using small group instruction. |
Student Assistance Program (SAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based mental health screening program that aims to help students be successful at school by identifying alcohol/drug issues or suicidality and providing appropriate referrals as needed. |
Student Team Reading and Writing |
Insufficient Evidence | A literacy program designed to improve students’ achievement in reading and language arts through teacher presentation, team practice, independent practice, peer pre-assessment, and individual accountability. |
Student Training through Urban Strategies (STATUS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school climate improvement program intended to combat anti-social behavior through improving student behavior, promote an understanding of society and its systems of law, and prepare delinquency-prone youths to become responsible, productive citizens. |
Student Transition and Recovery Program (STAR) |
Insufficient Evidence | An at-risk intervention that aims to reduce bullying, suspension, expulsion, and juvenile anti-social behavior by combining military-style drilling and exercise with academic tutoring. |
Study without Stress |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based psychoeducation program that aims to help students cope with academic stress in the final year of secondary school. |
Substance Abuse Prevention in School (new PASE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce youth smoking by creating non-smoking policies in schools, providing lessons to students on smoking refusal skills, and promoting non-smoking messages in the community. |
Success for Kids |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that aims to increase prosocial behaviors and reduce antisocial and problem behaviors in children by building resilience, accessing inner resources, and increasing positive connections with others. |
Suicide Action Montreal |
Insufficient Evidence | A suicide-intervention training that aims to reduce youth suicide by giving helpers at suicide prevention sites or community agencies a broader range of tools to utilize when counseling suicidal youth. |
Summer Treatment Program (STP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to produce and reinforce positive behavior changes in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder by using behavior management techniques and teaching sports and social skills. It also aims to reduce their risk of more serious problem behaviors or delinquency in the future. |
Supporting Father Involvement |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program intended to reduce child externalizing and internalizing behaviors by promoting positive father involvement early in child and family life trajectories. |
Surviving the Teens |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program to increase depression awareness and prevent suicide by adding several goals to health education classes: identifying risk factors for depression, improving coping skills, increasing family and school connectedness, and increasing helping and help-seeking behavior. |
Syracuse Family Development Research Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-visitor program that seeks to support effective family functioning, increase family cohesiveness, and improve development of the child in high risk families by providing educational, nutrition, health and safety, and human service resources. |
Taiwan Illicit Drug Use Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based education program designed to prevent substance use by integrating life skills training with lessons designed to educate students about the dangers of illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use. |
Take the Lead |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide curriculum designed to decrease bullying in middle school by targeting social competencies. |
TakeCARE |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based video program designed to reduce and prevent relationship and sexual violence among high school students by promoting helpful bystander behavior. |
Talking Time |
Insufficient Evidence | A preschool-based program designed to improve the language skills of children by developing their vocabulary, comprehension and narrative abilities through games and story activities. |
Talking with TJ |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based intervention designed to promote social and emotional competence in elementary school children through a curriculum delivered by trained facilitators. |
Targeted RECLAIM |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to reduce juvenile recidivism. |
Teach Your Children Well (TYCW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to teach reading, spelling and mathematics to children through skills development delivered by teachers or homeschooling parents. |
Teacher and Parent Collaboration Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A teacher and parent-delivered intervention designed to improve reading skills among young children. |
Teaching Students to be Peacemakers |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based intervention designed to empower all students to regulate their behavior and resolve their interpersonal conflicts constructively, ideally leading to more peaceful interactions. |
Teaching-Family Model |
Insufficient Evidence | A group home treatment model designed to promote prosocial behavior. |
Teams, Games, Tournaments (TGT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based intervention designed to increase knowledge about alcohol and its consequences among students using a group-based task-and-reward structure. |
Teen Court |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court – Dona Ana County, NM |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court – Sarasota County |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court- Greene County, OH |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court: Los Angeles County |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Prevention Education Program (PEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention that aims to reduce pregnancy and STI rates in teenagers through a comprehensive sexual health program that incorporates older high school students as peer educators for groups of younger peers. |
Teen Screen |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to prevent suicide among high school students through counseling and social work. |
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