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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
Program Rating Brief Description
Parent-Adolescent Relationship Education (PARE) Program
Insufficient Evidence

A curriculum that attempts to delay initiation of sexual activity and promote safe-sex practices by fostering parental involvement in the education of their children aged between 12 and 14.

Parent-Child Assistance Program (P-CAP)
Insufficient Evidence

A home visitation program designed for high-risk substance-abusing women to assist them in obtaining substance abuse treatment, maintaining recovery, resolving problems associated with substance abuse, and fostering a safe environment for their children.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy – Emotional Development (PCIT-ED)
Insufficient Evidence

A family therapy program designed to successfully treat early onset of depression among preschool children.

Parental Skills and Attachment in Early Childhood (CAPEDP)
Insufficient Evidence

A home-visitation program that aims to ultimately improve child mental health by preventing and reducing postnatal depression symptoms in mothers and improving the quality of the home environment.

Parenting Education Program (PEP)
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-component program that aims to enhance positive parenting behaviors and family relationships

Parenting Partnership
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed to reduce family risk and increase family protective factors related to child substance abuse, family stress, and emotional difficulties.

Parenting Toolkit
Insufficient Evidence

An online parent training program designed to increase parents’ self-efficacy and improve their disciplinary responses to child oppositional behavior, ultimately intending to reduce problem behavior among at-risk adolescents.

Parenting Video-Feedback Therapy
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed for mothers with postnatal depression to improve parenting skills, and in return, the quality of the mother-child interaction.

Parenting Wisely
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program that aims to reduce behavior problems in at-risk children by teaching effective parenting skills to families.

Parents and Children Making Connections – Highlighting Attention
Insufficient Evidence

A family-based training program that aims to improve academic readiness and selective attention in preschoolers from lower socioeconomic families.

Parents and Children Talking Together (PCTT)
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed to decrease child problem behavior by improving family communication.

Parents and Tots Together (PTT)
Insufficient Evidence

A group lesson that aims to reduce body mass index (BMI) and promote healthy eating and exercise among children by changing parenting strategies and behaviors.

Parents Plus – Parenting When Separated (PP-PWS)
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed for separated parents to develop skills for coping and effective co-parenting.

Parents Plus Children’s Programme
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed to reduce and prevent child behavior problems by providing parents with positive parenting and discipline strategies.

Parents Plus Early Years
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program that aims to empower parents to build positive relationships with their child and to promote child development.

Parents, Students, and Teachers for Healthy Eating (PAPPAS)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based intervention designed to promote healthy eating habits among adolescents, ultimately to reduce the increase in students’ Body Mass Index (BMI).

Partners in Parenting
Insufficient Evidence

A tailored web-based parenting program to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety problems.

PASCET (Primary and Secondary Control Enhancement Training)
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral therapy program for depressed children and adolescents that teaches appropriate coping mechanisms for different types of distressing situations.

Passport to Literacy
Insufficient Evidence

A supplemental multi-component intervention designed to improve the reading outcomes of struggling readers.

Pathfinder Programs for Offenders Serving Probation Orders
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive skills training initiative designed to develop offenders’ problem solving, creative thinking, social, emotions management, negotiation, values enhancement, and critical reasoning skills.

Pathways Home
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to improve parenting behaviors and prevent reunification failures of children returning home to biological parents after first-time stays in foster care.

Pathways To Change
Insufficient Evidence

A computer-based smoking cessation program that aims to achieve successful smoking cessation by enrolling participants in an individualized behavioral intervention according to their stage of preparation to quit.

Pause, Breathe, Smile
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to promote well-being in elementary school children.

PEACE Pack
Insufficient Evidence

A school-wide strategy aimed to reduce bullying behaviors and victimization among students.

Peaceful Alternatives to Tough Situations (PATTS)
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to increase youth’s positive conflict-resolution skills and reduce vengeful and aggressive behavior.

PeaceMakers
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to prevent youth violence by improving interpersonal behaviors and boosting psychosocial skills.

Pediatric Overweight Prevention through Parent Training Program (POP)
Insufficient Evidence

An obesity prevention program designed to reduce obesity rates among Latino children by educating parents on optimal nutrition and physical activity over seven weekly classes.

Peer Assistance and Leadership (PAL)
Insufficient Evidence

A peer-based program targeted towards school-aged children to address risk and protective factors associated with youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and reduce the risk of youth participation in violence.

Peer Support Systems for Bullying
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to reduce bullying and other conflict by training students in peer support systems and conflict resolution strategies.

Peer-Assisted Social Learning (PASL)
Insufficient Evidence

A peer-assisted social learning program that aims to improve social problem-solving skills in low-income youth through a curriculum delivered by trained staff in an after-school community setting.

Performance-Based Scholarships (Scholarship-Only Program)
Insufficient Evidence

A scholarship program that aims to increase the financial support available to low-income students and create an incentive for such students to complete their courses and make more timely progress toward degrees.

Period of PURPLE Crying (PURPLE)
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed to decrease Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) through the provision of information about infant crying habits and ways to deal with it.

PHAT Life
Insufficient Evidence

A psychosocial intervention that aims to reduce HIV risk behavior, aggression, and re-incarceration among juvenile offenders on probation.

Philosophy for Children (P4C)
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to improve children’s reasoning abilities and judgment by teaching them how to think for themselves and make informed choices.

Phoenix House Academy
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based program that aims to reduce substance use and problems associated with substance use among court-involved youths.

Phonological Awareness Training
Insufficient Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve phonological knowledge among preschoolers who are expected to experience difficulty in learning to read.

Phonological Awareness Training – Segmentation and Rhyming
Insufficient Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve phonological knowledge among preschoolers who are expected to experience difficulty in learning to read, using small-group activities.

Phonological Awareness Training with Music
Insufficient Evidence

An academic service that aims to improve phonological knowledge among preschoolers who may be at increased risk of experiencing difficulty in learning to read, using music and picture and object examples.

Physicians Counseling Smokers (PCS)
Insufficient Evidence

A smoking cessation program that aims to increase physicians’ adoption of and effectiveness at delivering smoking cessation strategies to their patients, ultimately aiming to reduce smoking rates.

Pittsburgh’s Early Childhood Initiative
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based program designed to foster preschool and school success for at-risk children.

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.

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 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.

Contact

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
University of Colorado Boulder
Institute of Behavioral Science
UCB 483, Boulder, CO 80309

Email: blueprints@colorado.edu

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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is
currently funded by Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) and historically has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.