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 | ||
|---|---|---|
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. |
Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment |
Inconclusive Evidence | An interim maintenance program that aims to improve compliance and reduce drug use among opiate-dependent individuals. |
California Smokers’ Helpline |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief, telephone-based smoking cessation intervention that aims to increase abstinence rates and quit attempts through telephone counseling designed to help smokers develop successful coping strategies. |
Canadian Breathalyser Law |
Inconclusive Evidence | Legislation designed to deter driving under the influence of alcohol and reduce fatalities resulting from alcohol-related automobile accidents. |
Cannabis Online Personalized Feedback |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online program that aims to reduce marijuana use and its negative consequences by translating survey responses into online individual personalized feedback on marijuana use. |
Career Beginnings |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that seeks to prepare youth for college and increase their enrollment and attendance in college and to prepare non-college-bound youth for vocational schooling. |
CareerStart |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal instructional program that aims to increase academic achievement among early adolescents by increasing student engagement through career relevant instruction. |
Carescapes |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development training program that aims to improve the quality of home-based child-care and promote social competence and school readiness in children by training caregivers in responsiveness and monitoring skills. |
Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based sexual education program designed to reduce teenage pregnancy through the use of a comprehensive approach to foster youth development. |
CASASTART |
Inconclusive Evidence | A neighborhood-based strategy that aims to prevent drug use and delinquency among high-risk adolescents 11-13 years of age living in highly distressed neighborhoods. |
Catch-Up Numeracy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mentoring program that aims to help struggling pupils improve their performance in mathematics. |
Challenge! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A manualized obesity prevention program that aims to reduce body mass and increase physical activity and healthy eating through individualized sessions and home and community activities. |
Check and Connect (C&C) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention to improve attendance, reduce dropout, and promote school engagement among urban high school youth who are at risk for learning problems or have learning or emotional/behavioral disabilities. |
Chicago Parent Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group-based parent training program designed to promote positive parenting strategies and reduce problem behaviors among African American and Latino children two through four years of age attending day care centers that serve low-income families. |
Chicago Predictive Policing Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A policing strategy that aims to reduce gun violence. |
Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to support children’s emotional and behavioral regulation and to reduce their risk of behavioral difficulties. |
Child Anxiety Multi-Day Program (CAMP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive cognitive behavioral intervention that aims to reduce the severity of separation anxiety disorder among young girls. |
Children in Between (formerly Children in the Middle) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A skills-training program designed to reduce the risk of behavioral problems among children of divorced parents through reductions in stress and anxiety. |
Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preventative school-based program that aims to create a supportive group in which children can freely share experiences, establish common bonds, clarify misconceptions, and acquire skills that enhance their capacity to cope with the stressful changes that divorce often poses. |
Children’s Aftercare Re-entry Experience (CARE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce recidivism among youth offenders currently on parole or probation through individualized case management and goal setting. |
Children’s Appetite Awareness Training (CAAT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An obesity prevention program designed to reduce incidence rates of childhood obesity by improving children’s self-regulatory capacities. |
Children’s Health, Activity and Nutrition: Get Educated! (CHANGE!) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote healthy weight among adolescents. |
CHOICE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A voluntary drug and alcohol prevention program designed to prevent the initiation of alcohol use among middle school students. |
Choosing the Best |
Inconclusive Evidence | An abstinence education program designed to promote sexual abstinence among middle and high school students through social, cognitive, and inductive learning activities. |
Christchurch Obesity Prevention Project in Schools (CHOPPS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce soda consumption and promote water consumption in an effort to prevent childhood obesity. |
Circle of Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | A culturally-tailored program that aims to prevent HIV, STIs, sexual risk behaviors, and substance use initiation among middle school youth by increasing their knowledge of HIV and STIs; building communication, decision-making, peer resistance, and refusal skills; and encouraging personal responsibility. |
Circle of Security |
Inconclusive Evidence | An early intervention program designed to reduce the risk of insecure and disorganized attachments in children by training caregivers to increase sensitivity and responsiveness to child distress. |
Circles of Peace (CP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A restorative justice program that aims to reduce recidivism among domestic violence offenders through weekly mediated meetings taking place over the course of six months to one year. |
Citizenship Community Supervision |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce recidivism among medium- to high-risk offenders by enhancing motivation for treatment, modeling pro-social behaviors, and integrating offenders into the mainstream community. |
City Connects |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve academic outcomes among students in high-poverty urban elementary schools by addressing family, socioemotional, and health issues that can affect students’ ability to succeed. |
Climate Schools |
Inconclusive Evidence | Multiple web-based programs that aim to reduce the use of cannabis, alcohol, ecstasy, and new psychoactive substances among middle and high school students. |
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