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 | ||
|---|---|---|
After-School Physical Activity Program for Black Girls |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program that aims to reduce obesity and improve physical fitness among children by encouraging engagement in healthy amounts of physical activity. |
Aktion Glasklar |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based alcohol reduction program that aims to combat youth drinking in Germany through instruction designed to increase knowledge, attitudes, and refusal skills surrounding alcohol consumption. |
Alcohol Intervention Group (AIG) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce the use of alcohol among adolescents through motivational interviewing techniques. |
Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study |
Inconclusive Evidence | An alcohol prevention program designed to provide students with the social skills necessary to avoid alcohol misuse. |
Alcohol Skills Training Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief intervention that aims to reduce risky drinking behavior among college students through various techniques that target inaccurate perceptions of peer drinking patterns, challenge alcohol expectancy, and promote self-monitoring alcohol use behavior. |
AlcoholEdu for College |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online harm reduction course that aims to prevent alcohol misuse among college freshmen. |
All4You! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school- and community-based intervention that aims to reduce HIV/STI and pregnancy incidence among adolescents. |
Alternatives for Youth’s Advocacy Program (AFY) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A civil advocacy program that aims to reduce juvenile offender placements by providing youth with legal representation. This representation aids youth in accessing disability services and defense attorney support for dispositional planning. |
American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based adaptive skills training program that aims to reduce behavioral and cognitive factors (e.g., depression, aggression, substance abuse) related to suicide. |
Anchorage Coordinated Agency Network |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive oversight program that aims to supplement levels of juvenile probationer supervision by augmenting the supervision already provided by juvenile probation officers with one-to-one police officer/probation contact. |
Annual Book Fairs |
Inconclusive Evidence | A low-involvement long-term intervention that aims to improve reading achievement among students from low-income families. The program also aims to prevent students’ reading loss by improving their access to books during the summer months. |
Anxiety Management Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based universal prevention program that aims to help adolescent boys cope with stress and anxiety. |
Arrest, Reporting to the Police, and Victim Services for Intimate Partner Violence (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to prevent future physical and/or sexual victimization of abuse victims through instruction on policies used by police and other victims of intimate partner violence. |
Assertiveness Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A peer-led, group-based assertiveness training program that aims to teach assertive responses and decrease aggressive behavior among Black adolescent males. |
ASSESS (Awareness, Skills, Self-efficacy/Self-esteem, and Social Support) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sex education program that aims to reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents by reducing the occurrence of sexual risk behaviors. |
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that aims to facilitate caregiver behaviors that promote the healthy development of maltreated children and their ability to regulate emotion and behavior. It also aims to enhance sensitive, nurturing care among foster parents or other caregivers at high risk for maltreating their children. |
Attention Academy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mindfulness training program that aims to improve elementary school children’s learning experience by improving their ability to focus and deal with stressful situations. |
Aussie Optimism Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce and prevent anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior and promote social, emotional, and cognitive skills in school-aged children (6-11 years of age). |
Availability, Responsiveness, and Continuity (ARC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An organizational intervention designed to improve mental health service outcomes for youth by helping community-based service settings to improve their social contexts. |
Aventuras Para Ninos |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component intervention that aims to prevent and control childhood obesity among Latinos by changing the home/family and/or school/community environments. |
Avon Park Youth Academy and Street Smart (APYA/SS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive vocational and educational training program that aims to promote life and community living skills and provide education and job training to facilitate self-sufficiency and a pro-social lifestyle. These goals are achieved by providing “real world” work experience and training on independent living skills within a normalized environment. |
Be Smart – Don’t Start (also known as Smokefree Competition) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based smoking prevention program that aims to delay or prevent the onset of smoking among adolescents. |
BE smokeFREE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to enhance self-efficacy in coping with pressure and reduce rates of smoking among high school students. |
Be the Exception |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multimedia intervention designed to delay the onset of sexual behavior and decrease sexual risk factors among adolescents in middle school. |
Becoming a Man |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program that aims to reduce criminal behavior and improve school outcomes among disadvantaged male youth. |
Becoming a Man (Juvenile Detention) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A juvenile justice program that aims to reduce recidivism among delinquent youth through treatment received while in juvenile detention. |
Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An HIV prevention program designed to promote access to information and refusal skills to increase abstinence and reduce or eliminate risky sexual behaviors among African American adolescents. |
Behavioral Couples Therapy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A treatment program that aims to improve marital relationships and reduce substance abuse among men with substance-use problems. |
BEST MOOD |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to reduce depressive symptoms and promote family cohesion and healthy attachments in adolescents through family-based group therapy sessions delivered by therapists in a multi-family setting. |
Bethlehem Police Family Group Conferencing Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A restorative justice program designed to effectively deal with young first-time offenders by diverting them from court and involving their extended families and victims in group conferencing. |
beyondblue |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce depressive symptoms among students finishing high school. |
Big Brothers Big Sisters School-based Mentoring Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mentoring program that aims to: 1) reduce antisocial behaviors; 2) improve academic performance, attitudes, behaviors, and peer and family relationships; 3) strengthen students’ self-concept; and 4) provide social and cultural enrichment. |
Body Project (Middle School) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A dissonance-based group intervention that aims to reduce eating disorder symptoms and risk factors among female middle school students with body image concerns, thereby preventing the onset of eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. |
Boston Public Schools Prekindergarten Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | To provide a prekindergarten option within a public K-12 school system with the aim of preparing children for school and to help attract families to the district who might otherwise leave or choose other options. |
Boston Reentry Initiative |
Inconclusive Evidence | An inter-agency initiative aims to reduce recidivism among former violent felons by helping them find treatment and develop vocational skills that will enable a successful transition from corrections back to their original neighborhoods. |
Brainology |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-delivered growth-mindset intervention that aims to help middle school students stay on track academically. |
Break the Cycle’s Ending Violence Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent intimate partner violence through a curriculum designed to increase awareness, education, and the likelihood that youth will seek help when experiencing such violence. |
Breakfast After-the-Bell |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that provides breakfast during regular school as a way to reduce absenteeism. |
Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | An indicated prevention program designed to help recent trauma survivors and assault victims cope with post-assault symptoms and prevent the development of additional chronic symptoms. |
Brief Intervention (BI) for Truant Youth |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based alcohol prevention and treatment program that aims to promote abstinence and prevent relapse among drug- and alcohol-using adolescents through the development of adaptive beliefs and problem-solving skills. |
Brief Motivational Intervention (Stepped Care) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An alcohol prevention program designed to reduce the frequency of drinking and alcohol-related problems among college students who do not respond to initial, low intensity treatment. |
Brief Motivational Intervention vs Alcohol 101 Plus Interactive Computer Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based brief motivational intervention that aims to reduce drinking and related problems among college students sanctioned for alcohol violations. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: Normative Emphasis |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based alcohol intervention designed to decrease problem drinking among college students through personalized normative feedback, which reduces the overestimated normative perceptions of peers’ drinking and, therefore, adjusts perceptions of personal drinking habits. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: With Motivational Interviewing |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based counseling program that aims to reduce heavy drinking among college students. |
Brief Strategic Family Therapy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family-focused intervention designed to improve youths’ behavioral problems by improving family interactions that are presumed to be directly related to the children’s symptoms. |
Bright Start |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce excessive weight gain among children of American Indian descent by increasing physical activity and healthy eating habits during kindergarten and first grade. |
Bucharest Early Intervention Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Buddy System |
Inconclusive Evidence | A behavior modification system that aims to reduce delinquency among adolescents 11-17 years of age with behavioral problems. |
Building Assets-Reducing Risks (BARR) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to help incoming freshmen make a successful transition to high school by increasing attendance, decreasing behavioral problems, and improving academic performance. |
Building Blocks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mathematics curriculum development program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge among preschool students who are at increased risk of later failure in school. |
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