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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:

1446 Programs
Program Rating Brief Description
Social and Emotional Training (SET)- Sweden
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to use social and emotional learning to decrease the use of drugs, volatile substances, alcohol and tobacco through teacher instruction.

Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents (SCPP-YA)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based intervention designed to prevent antisocial behavior in young adolescents by enhancing their capacity to coordinate interrelated cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills so they effectively handle developmentally relevant social tasks.

Social Networking Safety Promotion and Cyberbullying Prevention
Insufficient Evidence

A 45-minute presentation intended to prevent cyberbullying and improve social network safety by informing middle school students of the dangers of social networking and the negative effects of cyberbullying.

Social Reintegration Parole Program (Practice)
Insufficient Evidence

A social reintegration probation program designed for drug-related offenders to reduce recidivism and drug relapse rates through prosocial interaction with community volunteers and regular meetings with parole officers.

Social Skills Improvement System-Classwide Intervention Program (SSIS-CIP)
Insufficient Evidence

A teacher-delivered program that aims to improve social-emotional skills and academic readiness behaviors in young children through classroom-based instruction.

Social Support with Drug Testing
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based treatment combining drug testing and social support to prevent relapse among newly paroled drug-abusing offenders.

SODAS City
Insufficient Evidence

A small group intervention intended to reduce alcohol use among youth through instruction and skills practice.

Sources of Strength Suicide Prevention Program
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based suicide prevention program that aims to enhance protective factors among peer leaders trained to conduct schoolwide messaging and among the full population of high school students.

South Dakota 24-7 Sobriety Project
Insufficient Evidence

A probation program designed to reduce drunk driving through twice-a-day breathalyzer tests.

SPARK Ohio
Insufficient Evidence

A home-based early childhood intervention designed to improve school readiness among at risk children aged 3-6 by fostering engaged learning among both parents and children.

Spatial Temporal (ST) Math
Insufficient Evidence

A supplemental mathematics software program designed to improve students’ performance in mathematics.

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.

Contact

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.