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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Pittsburgh’s Early Childhood Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to foster preschool and school success for at-risk children. |
Plan A |
Inconclusive Evidence | A single-session sexual health video intervention that aims to promote effective contraceptive use, dual methods of protection, and HIV/STI testing among Hispanic and Black adolescent females. |
Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to improve parental responsiveness to infants and children and improve child development. |
Play Nicely (Multimedia Violence Prevention) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that educates caregivers about the basics of aggression management for children ages 1-7 in order to reduce later aggression and violence in adolescents and adults. |
PlayForward |
Insufficient Evidence | A video-game based education program designed to reduce rates of HIV in minority youth by delaying initiation of sexual intercourse and improving sexual health attitudes, knowledge and intentions. |
Playing and Learning Social Skills |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based social skills training program that aims to reduce social anxiety among children aged 9 to 12 in disruptive classrooms. |
Playtime/Social Time: Organizing Your Classroom to Build Interaction Skills |
Insufficient Evidence | A social skills training program to reduce aggressive and antisocial behaviors in early childhood. |
Playworks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to engage students in physical activity, foster social skills, improve students’ ability to focus on class work, decrease behavioral problems, and improve school climate by providing opportunities for organized play during recess and class time. |
Police Foot Patrol |
Inconclusive Evidence | A crime prevention program designed to reduce violence in violent-crime hot spots by increasing police presence. |
Police-led Truancy Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A truancy prevention program that aims to improve school attendance and reduce delinquency of youth. |
Pono Choices |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase knowledge, attitudes, skills, and intentions towards sexual health behaviors in middle school students. |
Positive Action Intensive Family Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that focuses on providing intrinsic motivation for developing and maintaining positive behavioral patterns. |
Positive Action through Holistic Education (Project PATHE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide program that aims to foster bonding to school, reduce school disorder, and increase student educational and occupational attainment. |
Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase commitment to school, decrease dropout rates, and promote problem-solving skills, peaceful conflict resolution, and positive social orientations in African-American adolescents. |
Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (PATHS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A curricular-based program that attempts to promote positive youth development in Hong Kong. |
Positive Attitude |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based social emotional learning program that aims to improve social and emotional skills, attitudes, behavior, and academic performance. |
Positive Family Support |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family-based, 3-tiered intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior and risk for substance abuse and depression and improve family management practices and communication skills, as well as adolescents’ self-regulation skills and prosocial behaviors. |
Positive Greetings at the Door |
Insufficient Evidence | A proactive teacher intervention to reduce middle school student problem behaviors and increase academic engagement. |
Positive Parenting for Healthy Living |
Insufficient Evidence | A group parenting intervention aimed at parents of children with asthma or eczema designed to improve parenting skills and parent adjustment and reduce child behavioral and emotional difficulties. |
Positive Thoughts and Action Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A depression prevention program designed to address key factors that contribute to and perpetuate depressive symptoms during the early adolescent years. |
Positively Fit (PF) |
Insufficient Evidence | A family-based program designed to reduce BMI and improve health-related quality of life among overweight children and adolescents. |
PowerTeaching Mathematics (formerly Student Teams-Achievement Divisions) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program that aims to help students achieve academic success by improving their understanding of mathematics concepts. |
Pragmatic School-Based Universal Resilience Intervention for Substance Use Reduction |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce and prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use in high school students by integrating protective factors into existing curricula. |
PRALIMAP (Promotion de l’ALImentation et de l’Activite Physique) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce BMI and prevent overweight/obesity among students. |
Pre Kids’ Club and Moms’ Empowerment Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that aims to reduce child internalizing behavior related to witnessing intimate partner violence. |
Pre-K Mathematics |
Inconclusive Evidence | An academic service that aims to improve math curricula in public preschools to better prepare children for later math education. |
Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics Tutorial (PKMT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program targeting pre-K students scoring in the lowest quartile for mathematics to improve their performance in mathematics. |
Pre-to-Three Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to promote the health and development of children by creating partnerships among agencies to facilitate early identification of medical and developmental problems, provide a seamless system of care for young children, and to develop community capacity. |
PREPARE |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program to improve sexual health behaviors and reduce intimate partner violence in eighth graders. |
PREPARE (Proactive, Responsive, Empirical, and Proactive Alternatives in Regular Education) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide behavior management model designed to reduce problem-behavior among students by employing staff development strategies that encourage teachers to respond to the demands of behavior management proactively. |
Preparing for Life |
Insufficient Evidence | A home visiting program designed to improve shared reading between parents and children and ultimately improve cognitive development of children. |
Preschool PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based enrichment intervention used to support the development of social-emotional competencies and language/emergent literacy skills among pre-K children and ultimately to reduce aggression in the school and home. |
Pressley Ridges Treatment Foster Care |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program focused on fostering readiness that teaches prospective foster parents enhanced skills to help manage the behaviors of youth in their care through pre-service trainings. |
Preventing Relational Aggression in Schools Everyday (PRAISE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to reduce relational and overt aggression in elementary school students. |
Prevention of Alcohol use in Students (PAS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based alcohol use program that aims to prevent adolescents from early-onset drinking through both student and parent components. |
Prevention of Overweight among Preschool and school children (POP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based, multi-level program that aims to promote healthy eating habits, increase daily physical activity, and decrease screen-time among children. |
Prevention Program for Externalizing Problem Behavior (PEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A prevention program designed to reduce symptoms of ADHD and ODD in children at risk for the development of these disorders. |
Prevention through Puppetry (Friends From Sunshine Center) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based summer program designed to increase positive social skills and decrease inappropriate behaviors in young children. |
Preventive Dimensions Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to increase awareness and decrease use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, namely marijuana. |
Preventive Treatment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to prevent antisocial behavior of boys who display early problem behavior. |
Preventure/Personality Targeted Substance Misuse Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program that aims to reduce or delay drinking, alcohol abuse, drug use, and associated problems among at-risk youth. |
Prime Time |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component youth development program designed to reduce pregnancy risk and aggression among high-risk adolescent girls. |
Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-based job-placement program intended to increase employment and reduce recidivism among prisoners after release. |
Prisoner Reentry Mediation Maryland |
Insufficient Evidence | This reentry program to reduce recidivism uses one or more 2-hour mediation sessions to reunite inmates with their families, build prosocial relationships, and set clear expectations prior to release. |
Prisoner Self-Service Kiosks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison-based program that aims to increase prisoners’ access to digital technology in order to reduce stress and ease their reintegration into society. |
Prize-Based Contingency Management for Cocaine Use |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prize-based incentive program used in outpatient treatment to reduce cocaine use among adult abusers in treatment. |
Problem Solving For Life (PSFL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to teach adolescents problem solving skills and ultimately prevent depression and related mental health problems. |
Problem Solving Skills Training (PSST) & Parent Management Training (PMT): Combined Treatment |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to reduce children’s antisocial behaviors and parents’ stress and dysfunction and improve family functioning. |
Problem-oriented Policing |
Inconclusive Evidence | A police crime prevention program that aims to reduce violence at high-risk areas by encouraging officers to use applied science solutions. |
Problematic Sexual Behaviors Cognitive Behavior Therapy for School Age Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive behavioral therapy designed to reduce or eliminate incidents of problematic child sexual behavior. |
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