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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that uses mindfulness exercises to reduce symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression. |
Mindfulness-Enhanced Strengthening Families 10-14 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group-based program for parents and children that aims to improve parenting and parent-child relationship quality through mindfulness activities. |
Minding the Baby (MTB) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that provides an integrated model of care for first-time young mothers and their families in bridging primary care and mental health approaches to enhancing parenting and the mother-infant relationship. |
MindLight |
Inconclusive Evidence | A video game-based intervention designed to help children regulate and reduce anxiety problems. |
MindOut |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based social and emotional learning program to improve social and emotional well-being in adolescents. |
MindUP |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based social-emotional learning program that aims to enhance cognitive control, improve stress regulation, promote well-being and prosociality, and improve school achievement. |
MINISTOP |
Inconclusive Evidence | An obesity prevention program for preschool-aged children implemented through a mobile phone app for parents. |
Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability |
Not Dissemination Ready | A community-based program that aims to prevent recidivism among sexual offenders through support provided by 4-6 community volunteers during the reentry period after prison. |
Minnesota Reading Corps |
Inconclusive Evidence | A statewide program that seeks to ensure that students with reading problems meet reading proficiency targets by the end of the third grade and become successful readers. |
Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program designed to reduce cigarette smoking in adolescents and prevent heart disease in total population. |
Minnesota Transitional Sex Offender Treatment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison-based cognitive-behavioral training program designed to prevent recidivism among sexual offenders through therapy, support groups, and psychoeducational training. |
Mobile Coach Alcohol |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mobile-based program that aims to reduce and prevent adolescent binge-drinking by teaching strategies to resist alcohol, as well as providing information on outpatient alcohol counseling. |
Mom’s Empowerment Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A group intervention designed to enhance the social and emotional adjustment of mothers who experience intimate partner violence, which may protect children from potentially damaging effects. |
Moms2B |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce infant mortality rates among pregnant women residing in high-risk urban communities by improving nutrition and increasing social and medical support from pregnancy through the first year of life. |
Montessori Preschool Education |
Inconclusive Evidence | A pre-school education aimed at social and cognitive development of children. |
Montreal Longitudinal and Experimental Study (MLES) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program designed for boys between the ages of 7 and 9 years that aims to reduce disruptive, antisocial and delinquent behaviors in the short-term and substance use behaviors in the long-term. |
MoodGYM (The YouthMood Project) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An internet-based program that aims to prevent and reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents. |
Moral Reconation Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral therapy program designed to reduce substance abuse and recidivism among incarcerated offenders after their release. |
More Fun With Sisters and Brothers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to help siblings 4-8 years of age strengthen their relationship by developing emotional competencies and prosocial behaviors. It also aims to reduce the amount of parental regulation required. |
Mother-Infant Transaction Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to help parents of preterm infants establish stronger emotional attachments with their infants and thereby improve behavioral outcomes among infants later in life. |
Motivating Adolescents with Technology to CHOOSE Health (MATCH) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce unhealthy weight of middle school-aged children. |
Motivation in Mathematics |
Inconclusive Evidence | Two school-based, short interventions designed to improve students’ achievement in mathematics. |
Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MET/CBT-5) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive behavioral therapy program that seeks to reduce the use of alcohol among adolescents. |
Motivational Interviewing Brief Intervention for Adolescent Drug Abuse |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief intervention designed to reduce alcohol and drug use in adolescents identified by the school as possibly using drugs or alcohol. |
Motivational Interviewing for Physically Aggressive Dating Couples |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intervention designed to resolve physical and psychological aggression in college-aging dating couples by facilitating behavior change. |
Motivational Interviewing to improve Academic Performance |
Inconclusive Evidence | A one-session intervention that aims to improve academic performance in middle school children. |
MOVE/me Muevo |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to prevent and control obesity among 5- to 8-year old children through family outreach and improved services at public recreation centers. |
Movi |
Insufficient Evidence | A physical activity program that aims to reduce obesity in primary school children. |
Movimiento Ascendencia (Upward Movement) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to provide alternatives to gang involvement and delinquency for Latina girls. |
Moving On Minnesota |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-based cognitive-behavioral training program intended to prevent recidivism among female inmates. |
Moving to Opportunity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A residential mobility program that relocates poor families living in the poorest neighborhoods of the five largest cities in the U.S. in order to reduce poverty and improve positive life outcomes among participants. Specifically, it seeks to increase employment and reduce violent and criminal offending and victimization. |
Multicomponent Healthy Lifestyle Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A multicomponent program that aims to support primary school children to modify their habits towards healthier lifestyles, increase out-of-school physical activity, and create awareness in families for the need for healthy lifestyle choices. |
Multicomponent Literacy Instruction in Social Studies |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to enhance vocabulary knowledge and comprehension among middle school students, with special attention to English language learners. |
Multidimensional Family Prevention (MDFP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home- and community-based model that aims to prevent the initiation and escalation of drug use and antisocial behavior by adolescents by strengthening bonds with family and prosocial influences. |
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to ameliorate adolescent drug use and associated behavioral problems. |
Multidimensional Perspectives |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to support the ability of children aged five to six years old to think from different perspectives. |
Multimodal Residential Drug Treatment Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A three-month comprehensive and intensive residential program followed by aftercare that includes assessment and case management, cognitive behavioral skills training, individual and family counseling, and a recreation program in a therapeutic community environment. |
Multimodal Substance Abuse Prevention |
Insufficient Evidence | A drug prevention program conducted with court-referred adolescent males in a residential treatment facility that aims to to make positive changes in drug use, alcohol use, illegal offenses, and school problems. |
Multiple Family Groups Service Model |
Insufficient Evidence | A family group therapy designed to improve the functioning of youth with oppositional defiant/conduct disorder and enhance family-level engagement and retention in ongoing care. |
Multisystemic Therapy – Health Care (MST-HC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | Multisystemic Therapy – Health Care (MST-HC) is an adaptation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), a home- and community-based family therapy program for treating severe behavior problems in youth. The MST-HC adaptation targets severe problems with illness management in adolescents with various chronic medical conditions such as asthma, obesity, and Type 1 diabetes. |
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A therapeutic intervention designed to help abusive and neglectful parents develop appropriate parental control techniques and to improve parent-child interactions. |
Multisystemic Therapy with Psychiatric Supports (MST-Psychiatric) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive family-centered home-based treatment designed to improve mental health symptoms, suicidal behaviors, and family relations among youth presenting psychiatric emergencies. An additional goal of this program is to provide an alternative to or reductions in hospitalization or other out-of-home placements stays, thus reducing the number of days out of school. |
My Baby and Me |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based program aiming at developing mothers’ responsive behaviors with their children across the infant and toddler developmental periods. |
My Body and I |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based program that aims to improve body satisfaction by educating children about body changes that occur during puberty. |
MyTeachingPartner-Secondary |
Not Dissemination Ready | A professional development program for secondary level teachers that focuses on motivating and enhancing teachers’ daily interactions with students to improve student academic performance. |
Naltrexone Treatment for Opioid Abuse |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for criminal offenders with a history of opioid dependence designed to prevent relapse by providing injections of an extended-release formulation of naltrexone, a drug that blocks the euphoric effects of opioids. |
Narconon Truth about Drugs |
Insufficient Evidence | A drug-use prevention program that seeks to correct the prevalent but false messages that students receive about drugs, improve student interpersonal skills, and contribute to the development of appropriate group norms about drugs. |
National Guard Youth Challenge Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 3-stage program designed to provide high-risk youth with experiences, settings, and relationships that promote completion of education, successful employment, and positive behavior during the transition to adulthood. |
NCRECE Professional Development for Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development program for pre-school teachers that aims to improve the quality of teacher-child interactions and thereby to reduce student absenteeism. |
Need to Know (N2K) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce teen pregnancy by increasing knowledge and skills and improving attitudes for sexual health behaviors. |
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