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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Virtual Infant Parenting (VIP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed for adolescent girls with the goal of delaying pregnancy in the teenage years and improving knowledge and awareness of preconception health issues. |
VisionQuest |
Insufficient Evidence | A comprehensive program that uses challenging outdoor experiences and group home settings to reduce youth recidivism, both in terms of frequency and severity of criminal behavior. |
VOICES |
Insufficient Evidence | A trauma-informed and gender-responsive intervention that aims to prevent substance misuse and other risky behaviors by promoting strengths and resilience, coping strategies, and positive interpersonal relationships. |
Voyager Reading Programs |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program implemented by regular classroom teachers that aims to develop literacy skills and reading proficiency for early readers and struggling readers at different age levels. |
Walk away, Ignore, Talk, Seek help (W.I.T.S.) |
Insufficient Evidence | An elementary school program to promote prosocial behaviors and reduce levels of peer victimization in schools and classrooms by creating an environment in which children learn about and use strategies for handling conflicts with peers. |
WAVES (West Midlands ActiVe lifestyle and healthy Eating in School) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 12-month school-based intervention that encourages healthy eating and physical activity to reduce childhood obesity. |
Wayne County Intensive Probation Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative at-home sentencing option for juveniles who would otherwise be committed to correctional institutions with the goal of reducing recidivism and lowering the overall number of youth committed to incarceration by the state. |
We Have Skills! (WHS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A video-based program that is implemented by elementary classroom teachers. The goal is to increase primary students’ prosocial behaviors through the teaching of social skills. |
Weed and Seed |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based strategy to reduce violent and drug-related crime by targeting and weeding out violent offenders and drug dealers, planting seeds of change in the community, and fostering community policing. |
Well-Being Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | An 8-week school-based program to improve levels of psychological well-being among early-adolescents in areas of autonomy, personal growth, environmental mastery, purpose in life, positive relations, and self-acceptance. |
Wellness, Academics, & You (WAY) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based 6-month program that uses physical education and activity, nutritional guidance, and family and peer interactions to help children better understand wellness, lose weight, adopt healthy lifestyles, and improve learning. |
Wells-Goodfellow (WGF) Focused Deterrence Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | A police-led community initiative combining various enforcement and prevention efforts to reduce gun violence and other forms of aggression. |
Why Joints? (xkpts.com) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 4-session classroom-based program for adolescents that uses a variety of activities and materials to prevent youth from using marijuana. |
Wisconsin Early Intervention (WEI) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program for kindergarten and elementary students with the goal of reducing problem social behavior such as internalizing and externalizing. |
Wise Guys |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program with the goal of reducing teenage pregnancy by delaying the initiation of sexual intercourse among adolescent males and increasing abstinence amongst those already sexually active. |
Woodrock Youth Development Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program to reduce the incidence of drug abuse among at-risk elementary and middle-school minority youth; raise awareness about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use (ATOD); promote healthy attitudes regarding resistance to ATOD use; improve the quality of race relations; and improve students’ self-esteem. |
Word Generation |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention for middle school students that aims to improve academic vocabulary knowledge and use. |
Working to Insure and Nurture Girls’ Success (WINGS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program consisting of home visitation and center-based services that aims to reduce the number of adolescent girls entering or continuing in the juvenile justice system. The program supports and empowers them and their families to access and receive appropriate services. |
World of Words (WOW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A preschool program that aims to improve the word knowledge and conceptual development of preschool children through the use of taxonomic categorization and embedded multimedia. Lessons use video, audio, and pictures to extend students’ use of new vocabulary to describe things, solve problems, and draw generalizations and inferences. |
Wraparound Services Model – Columbus, Ohio |
Insufficient Evidence | A wraparound services program for youth with complex needs and their families that aims to reduce subsequent arrests, school absences, school expulsion or suspension, running away from home, detention by police, and assaultive behaviors. |
Wraparound Services Model – Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Insufficient Evidence | A multipronged program to provide effective treatment and reduce out-of-home care for emotionally disturbed and delinquent youth with experience in the juvenile justice system. The program aims to reduce serious emotional, mental health and behavioral issues in this population. |
Yale Child Welfare Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A multipronged program for infants and their families that includes home visitation, pediatric care, daycare, and psychological services with the goal of supporting effective family functioning in high risk families. The program aims to impact child behavioral and psychological outcomes and family socioeconomics, among others. |
Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A multifaceted program that includes school-wide assemblies, peer leadership training, teacher training, outreach and education activities, and the implementation of a hotline toward the goal of increasing help-seeking for and by suicidal youth. |
YMCA Youth Institute |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive, year-round, community-based program for low-income, culturally diverse, urban high school youth. Aims include promoting readiness for higher education or career entry, improving academic achievement, stimulating interest in higher education, and ensuring that participants remain engaged in their schools and communities. |
Young People’s Development Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based, year-round teen pregnancy prevention program that offers youth development activities, sexuality education, substance misuse education, and referral to mental health and medical services including contraceptives. |
Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that engages middle school students in community change projects in order to enhance positive youth development. Specific goals include increased community involvement, self-efficacy, and prosocial behavior. |
Youth Matters |
Insufficient Evidence | A set of curricula for students in grades K-12 that use a series of age appropriate modules to reduce bullying, aggressive behavior, and victimization by emphasizing the negative consequences, improving prosocial attitudes, increasing self-efficacy, and enhancing social bonds. |
Youth Safe Haven |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based after-school program that seeks to generate positive changes in grades, attitudes, and behaviors among low-income and disadvantaged youth by partnering police officers with civilians in advocacy, mentoring, and tutoring initiatives. |
Zero In On Prevention Student Assistance Program (ZIP-SAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce drug use and antisocial behavior among the secondary school population. |
Zippy’s Friends |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase the coping repertoire of children between the ages of 6 and 8 by providing them with strategies to handle problems and emotional events. |
21st Century Community Learning Centers Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school academic assistance program that uses recreational and enrichment activities to decrease behavioral problems among youth. |
4Rs Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to promote social-emotional learning and literacy development among children in grades K-5. |
Aban Aya Youth Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based prevention program designed to reduce high risk behaviors among inner-city African American youth. |
Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A police-school collaboration program that aims to prevent truancy and other criminal offenses associated with truancy among adolescents by fostering collaboration between schools, parents, and the police. |
Abracadabra (ABRA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online literacy program that aims to improve reading skills through phonic fluency and comprehension activities based around a series of age-appropriate texts. |
Academic Language Instruction for All Students (ALIAS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based academic vocabulary development program that aims to bolster the language and literacy skills of middle school students. The program uses a text-based, four-skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) instructional approach that focuses on teaching high-utility, abstract academic vocabulary and developing word-learning ability. |
Academic Tutoring and Social Skills Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve peer acceptance and social skills in children who are rejected by peers, as well as promote academic achievement in children who struggle with reading and mathematics. |
Academy for Community Education |
Inconclusive Evidence | An alternative school that combines intensive basic skills training with a community-based vocational apprenticeship program to increase students’ commitment to education and academic achievement. |
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A psychotherapy intervention that aims to promote psychological flexibility and discourage psychological suffering through acceptance and mindfulness practices. |
Achievement Mentoring – High School |
Inconclusive Evidence | A selective prevention program designed to enhance urban minority students’ school-related cognition and behaviors through adult mentoring and positive behavioral reinforcements. |
Achieving Behaving Caring Project (ABC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A whole-class prevention program that aims to develop social skills among children at risk for emotional disturbance. The program includes whole class social skills instruction and teams consisting of parents, teachers, and guidance counselors who identify strengths and problems of the child and develop goals for the child. |
ACT Out! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A psychodramatic intervention presented to students by professional actors to increase social-emotional competence and reduce bullying. |
Action-Based Diversion of Juvenile Offenders |
Inconclusive Evidence | Various youth diversion programs that focus on strengthening positive behavioral norms and constructive social ties though 80 hours of one-on-one training with upper-division college students. |
Active and Healthy Families |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component, family-centered, culturally- and linguistically-tailored intervention that aims to reduce obesity among Latino children. |
Adolescence Cannabis Check-Up (ACCU) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program that seeks to reduce the frequency of cannabis use among adolescents. |
Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial (AAPT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program that aims to provide adolescents with the behavioral skills necessary to refuse drug offers, correct erroneous perceptions about the prevalence and acceptability of adolescent substance use, and establish conservative group norms regarding substance use. |
Adolescent Cessation of Tobacco: Independent of Nicotine (ACTION) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based tobacco abstinence skills program that seeks to promote tobacco use cessation through interactive games. |
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An outpatient alcohol and substance abuse treatment program that aims to replace activities that support alcohol and drug use with positive behaviors that support recovery by promoting positive family and peer relationships. It also aims to motivate caregiver participation in the treatment process, to increase the caregiver’s support of the adolescent’s abstinence, to provide information to the caregiver about effective parenting practices, and to help the adolescent and caregiver create a home and community environment conducive to recovery. |
Adults in the Making (AIM) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce alcohol and substance use among African American youth by strengthening family bonds and enhancing self-regulatory processes. |
Advanced Supervision and Intervention Support Team (ASIST) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison diversion program that targets recidivism and reincarceration among high risk offenders with mental illnesses. |
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