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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:

1445 Programs
Program Rating Brief Description
EQUIP (EQUIPping Youth To Help One Another)
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to encourage young people to think and act responsibly and equip them with the life skills to do so, using a peer-helping approach.

Erlangen-Nuremberg Development and Prevention Study
Insufficient Evidence

An intervention designed to reduce child behavior problems, externalizing, internalizing, and delinquency through skills training for children and parents.

Errorless Compliance Training
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program that aims to reduce noncompliance and externalizing problems in oppositional children while minimizing confrontational parent-child interactions.

Everybody’s Different
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to prevent eating disorders (ED) by improving students’ self-esteem.

Expect Respect
Insufficient Evidence

A selective prevention strategy designed to prevent and reduce dating violence among at-risk middle and high school students.

Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (ECALC)
Insufficient Evidence

A single-session group program to reduce alcohol consumption among high school and college students by modifying their expectations regarding alcohol use.

Expedited Medicaid
Insufficient Evidence

A Medicaid program targeted at offenders with severe mental illness to decrease recidivism.

Expressive Writing Intervention (for depression and coping skills)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based intervention that aims to decrease the negative outcomes associated with peer-victimization (e.g, bullying, peer rejection) in adolescents through expressive writing.

Extended-Service Schools Initiative
Insufficient Evidence

An after-school program that aim to promote academic and nonacademic development of school-aged youth by providing safe and structured after-school environments consisting of academic, enrichment, sport, and recreational activities.

Extracurricular Science Intervention
Insufficient Evidence

An academic service designed to foster understanding of science among elementary school students.

Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based violence prevention program designed to reduce violence by increasing students’ ability to differentiate and coordinate the perspectives of self and others.

Fairplayer.Manual
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based bullying prevention program that aims to prevent bullying and relational aggression among middle- and high-school students.

Faith Based Prevention and Health Promotion Model
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to prevent young people from becoming involved in drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, as well as other delinquent behaviors, by increasing social and academic skills and fostering a positive community environment through the local church.

Families for Health
Insufficient Evidence

A family-based intervention that aims to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes for children aged 6 to 11.

Families in Action
Insufficient Evidence

A family-based program that aims to prevent and reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in high risk youths.

Family Check-Up 4 Health
Insufficient Evidence

A parenting intervention to improve child health behaviors by building motivation and providing individually-tailored family support.

Family Check-Up Online
Insufficient Evidence
An online and coaching program that aims to reduce child problem behavior through assessment and improvement of parenting.
Family Connections
Insufficient Evidence

A multifaceted, community-based program that works with families in their homes and in the context of their neighborhoods to help them meet the basic needs of their children and reduce the risk of child neglect.

Family Drug Court for Substance Abusing Parents
Insufficient Evidence

A drug court program that aims to shorten the time children spend in foster care and increase the chances of families re-unifying after parental substance abuse by protecting the safety of the children while giving their parents the skills to become sober, self-sufficient caregivers.

Family Integrated Transitions Program for Juvenile Offenders (FIT)
Insufficient Evidence

An intensive family- and community-based program that provides treatment to mentally ill, chemically dependent youth transitioning from a juvenile rehabilitation program setting back into the community, and thereby reduce recidivism.

Family Leadership Training Institute
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based program to develop leadership skills and civic engagement of adults and youths ages 11-15.

Family Rewards 2.0
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based program that aims to improve earnings, employment, educational attainment, health, and general well-being of families through financial rewards given to both adults and children who meet specific goals.

Family Solutions Program (FSP)
Insufficient Evidence

A family-based, group intervention that seeks to combat juvenile delinquency by modifying youth behaviors and the family environments that contribute to delinquency.

Family Support Program
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training and early childhood education program to reduce risk factors for child developmental impairment and parent maltreatment among children with behavioral problems.

Family Talk Intervention
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to educate families about depression in order to improve family relationships and functioning and reduce the risk of depression in children.

FAN Club (Family Advocacy Network)
Insufficient Evidence

A parent involvement program, conducted in combination with the SMART Moves youth program, that aims to strengthen high-risk families.

Father Flanagan’s Girls and Boys Town
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-component program that provides short- or long-term residential care to juvenile offenders with significantly handicapping behavioral, emotional, and cognitive disorders who are either awaiting or returning from long-term placement by the juvenile court.

FearNot! (Fun with Empathic Agents to achieve Novel Outcomes in Teaching)
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to enhance the problem solving skills of current or potential victims of bullying by encouraging students to generate and evaluate a wide range of responses to bullying in a safe environment that ensures privacy.

Feelings Club
Insufficient Evidence

A 12-week group intervention that focuses on recognizing and managing negative feelings and maladaptive thoughts.

Firearm-Injury Prevention Programs (Eddie Eagle & Behavioral Skills Training)
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to reduce firearm injuries and gun play in children by teaching children gun-safety skills.

Flemish Anti-Bullying Program
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce bullying perpetration and victimization in primary and secondary schools.

Flemish Health Intervention
Insufficient Evidence

The program’s goal is to encourage physical activities and reduce fat intake in order to decrease obesity among adolescents.

Flint Odyssey House (FOH) Family-Focused Substance Abuse
Insufficient Evidence

A family-focused treatment program that aims to improve retention, psychosocial functioning, and parenting attitudes of pregnant and parenting women in alcohol/drug recovery.

Food and Fun After School
Insufficient Evidence

An obesity prevention program that aims to reduce child obesity by creating opportunities to increase physical activity and eat nutritious snacks after school.

Food, Fun, and Fitness
Insufficient Evidence

An 8-week web-based program designed to increase fruit/juice/vegetable intake and physical activity in African American girls.

Forever Free
Insufficient Evidence

An intensive 6-month cognitive-behavioral substance abuse treatment program for incarcerated women.

Formalized Treatment for Cannabis Dependence
Insufficient Evidence

A homogeneous, explicitly formalized therapeutic protocol that draws from motivational interviews, cognitive behavioral therapy, and family approaches to change the addictive behavior of adolescents dependent on cannabis.

Foster Care Intervention for Girls
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to prevent internalizing and externalizing problems while increasing prosocial behaviors of girls in foster care who are transitioning to middle school.

Fostering Opportunities
Insufficient Evidence

A student engagement program designed to help secondary students who have experienced foster care be successful in school and ultimately earn a high school credential.

Frameworks Youth Suicide Prevention Project
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based project designed to increase community effectiveness in responding to youth suicidal events, including suicidal ideation, attempts and threats and completed suicides, by developing shared knowledge, language and understanding among all constituencies in a community.

Friend to Friend (F2F)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based group intervention program designed to promote problem-solving skills and prosocial strategies for dealing with peer conflicts among relationally aggressive girls enrolled in the third through fifth grades in urban, predominantly African American schools.

Friendly PEERsuasion
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to stop and prevent substance abuse among early adolescent girls through teaching program participants communication and leadership skills, stress management skills, coping strategies to deal with peer pressure to use illegal substances, and the harmful effects of using these substances.

Friendly Schools Friendly Families
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to reduce bullying in elementary and middle school through education for students, their families, and school staff.

FRIENDS Parent Program
Insufficient Evidence

A parent component of the FRIENDS for Life intervention program designed to lower child anxiety symptoms by addressing parent anxiety.

Fun FRIENDS
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to prevent anxiety and promote social and emotional strength in preschoolers.

Fun n healthy in Moreland!
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to reduce/prevent obesity among children.

Gang Intervention Treatment: Re-entry Development for Youth Initiative (GitRedy)
Insufficient Evidence

A community reintegration program using cognitive life skills training and individual counseling to help youth, specifically former gang members, reintegrate into their communities after confinement.

Gang Resistance is Paramount (GRIP)
Insufficient Evidence

An educational program for elementary and middle school students and their parents about the dangers of gang involvement through school and community-based programming. The program also provides counseling to students who show signs of gang involvement.

Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Program Training – QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer)
Insufficient Evidence

A training program for school staff to learn to recognize risk factors for and signs of suicidal ideation and to talk with students displaying warning signs.

George Washington University Drug Education Program
Insufficient Evidence

A drug curriculum for elementary and middle school students that aims to decrease use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco and influence students’ attitudes and intentions towards drug use.

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.