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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Functional Family Therapy-Child Welfare (FFT-CW) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A tailored family therapy program that aims to reduce child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. A tailored family therapy program that aims to reduce child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. |
Future Foundations Summer School Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to reduce summer learning loss and improve academic attainment. |
Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (GREAT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A curriculum implemented by law enforcement officers in schools that teaches conflict resolution skills, cultural sensitivity, and the negative aspects of gang life to middle school students to enable them to resist peer pressure to join gangs. |
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | Support for a variety of suicide prevention programs that aims to decrease incidence of suicide attempts and suicide mortality. |
Get Real |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sexual education program for middle schoolers and their parents that aims to delay sexual debut and promote abstinence, and also provides information about contraception methods. |
Go Grrrls |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program for adolescent girls that aims to decrease delinquency, risky sexual behavior, and drug or alcohol use. |
Going Places |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase academic engagement and commitment to school; alter perceptions, attitudes and expectations about substance use and antisocial behavior; and reduce multiple problem behaviors such as smoking, alcohol use, aggression, and bullying. |
Green Dot – High School Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-wide program developed for college campuses and adapted for high schools that engages potential bystanders to act to reduce sexual violence and related forms of interpersonal violence. |
Group Motivational Enhancement Therapy (GMET) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group therapy program that aims to reduce alcohol drinking among college students. |
Group MultiLit (Making Up Lost Time in Literacy) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A small group reading program designed to improve the reading ability of struggling primary school-aged children. Through targeting phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, it aims to bring low-progress readers closer to the average reading level for their age. |
Group Treatment for Childhood Obesity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family group training program that aims to promote healthy lifestyles and well-being in obese children. |
Group Triple P (Level 4) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to improve positive parenting behaviors and the behavior of children with conduct problems by increasing parent engagement and teamwork. |
Guided Self-Change (GSC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based motivational and cognitive behavioral therapy intervention that aims to decrease drug and alcohol use, thereby decreasing interpersonal aggression, juvenile offending, and delinquency. |
Harlem Parole Reentry Court |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transition program that provides support and supervision for prisoners reentering the community. |
Head Start |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preschool program for lower-income children and their families that provides education to reduce the gap between low-income and middle-class elementary school students. |
Health care program for teen mothers and their infants |
Inconclusive Evidence | A health care and support program for teenage mothers that supports their health, their babies’ health, their return to school, and the prevention of repeat pregnancy. |
HEalth in Adolescents (HEIA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for 6th and 7th grade students and their families aimed at increasing physical activity and improving health. |
Health Promotion Wave (HPW) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for kindergartners through high school seniors aimed at helping students gain the knowledge, skills, and behavior in all areas critical to healthy living. |
Healthy Families America (HFA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visit program aimed at preventing child maltreatment and improving children’s psychosocial outcomes. |
Healthy Families Massachusetts (HFM) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visit program for families in Massachusetts aimed at preventing child maltreatment and improving children’s psychosocial outcomes. |
Healthy Families New York (HFNY) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visit program for families in New York aimed at preventing child maltreatment and improving children’s psychosocial outcomes. |
Healthy Futures |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program aimed at increasing high schoolers’ career readiness and decreasing their physical violence and alcohol and drug use. |
Healthy Habits, Happy Homes |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based family education program aimed at helping children lose weight through making their lifestyles healthier. |
Healthy Start Home Visit Program (HSHVP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family home visiting program for disadvantaged Chinese families designed to improve preschool children’s physical health, cognitive, and psychosocial development. |
Healthy Start Project (HSP): Hawaii Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A Hawaiian family monitoring and parent education program aimed at reducing child abuse and neglect. |
Healthy Start Project (HSP): National Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based education program to improve mother and infant health and reduce infant mortality. |
Healthy Steps for Young Children |
Inconclusive Evidence | A national initiative aimed at improving children’s first three years of life by improving parent-child relationships and parent relationships with health providers. |
Helping Women Recover and Beyond Trauma |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison-based, therapeutic community treatment program intended to prevent recidivism through counseling tailored to the needs of female prisoners. |
Higher Achievement Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school and summer program for underserved middle school students aimed at developing positive academic behaviors and attitudes. |
Hip-Hop to Health Jr |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for minority preschool children aimed at reducing the risk for obesity by teaching healthy eating and exercise habits. |
HORIZONS |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sexual risk reduction program that aims to diminish incident sexually transmitted disease (STD) and enhance STD/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) preventative behaviors and psychosocial mediators. |
Hot Spot Policing (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for crime reduction that focuses on a small number of high-activity crime places and aims to be proactive rather than reactive in crime reduction. |
House of Hope |
Inconclusive Evidence | An in-prison program therapy for domestic violence offenders to reduce reoffense and foster a supportive social climate. |
Houston Parent-Child Development Center |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program for economically disadvantaged children that trains cognitive and social skills to reduce academic disadvantages and improve mental health of participating families. |
I Hear What You’re Saying |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based program for mothers and their daughters. The focus is on enhancing mother-daughter relationships and appropriate family rules in order to prevent substance use among adolescent girls. |
Improving Writing Quality, Self-Regulated Strategy Development |
Inconclusive Evidence | A middle school program that can be used to teach most genres of writing, including narrative writing. The goal is to encourage pupils to take ownership of their work, thereby improving writing quality. |
In-Prison Visitation (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | This practice aims to reduce recidivism after release from prison by allowing incarcerated individuals to maintain strong relationships with family, friends, and community volunteers through regular visitation. |
Incredible Years – Child Prevention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program focused on classroom management and the fostering of social competence and emotional regulation among young children. The program aims to prevent conduct problems and improve school readiness among Head Start, kindergarten, and first grade students in schools drawing from high poverty, multiethnic areas. |
Indianapolis Restorative Justice Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A restorative justice program consisting of conferences where the offending youth, the victim, and their supporters come together with a facilitator to dialogue about the crime and agree on appropriate reparations. The primary purpose of the program is to reduce juvenile recidivism. A secondary goal is to ensure victim, offender, and offender-parent satisfaction with alternative restorative justice sanctions. |
Indicated Prevention for College Student Marijuana Use |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for college students that uses motivational enhancement and cognitive-behavioral techniques to enhance their intrinsic motivation to reduce levels of marijuana use. |
Individualized Motivational Plans |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral training program designed to reduce recidivism among men convicted of intimate partner violence using motivational interview techniques. |
Individualized Treatment Program for Adolescent Shoplifters |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for youth who have been convicted of shoplifting with the goal of increasing personal responsibility and reducing recidivism through completion of individualized treatment programs. |
Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program for low birth weight infants and their families to reduce developmental delays by enhancing cognitive, fine motor, language, social, and emotional skills. |
Inner Explorer |
Inconclusive Evidence | The school-based mindful awareness training program is designed to increase quarterly grade performance and positive classroom behavior among elementary school students. |
Instructor-Led Intervention for Obese Mexican American Youth |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive school-based nutrition and physical activity program to promote healthy weight among Mexican American children. |
Integrated Outpatient Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mental health and substance abuse program to decrease alcohol and marijuana use, as well as suicide ideation and attempts, through integrated cognitive-behavioral therapy. |
Intelligent Tutoring of the Structure Strategy (ITSS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based, intelligent tutoring system that aims to increase nonfiction reading comprehension by focusing on understanding text structure. |
Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program to reduce recidivism among high-risk juvenile parolees as they transition from incarceration to the community. |
Intensive Protective Supervision Project (North Carolina) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A one-year community supervision program for juvenile status offenders. The program aims to decrease the incidence of delinquent and status offenses by reducing negative behaviors while increasing positive behaviors. |
Intensive Supervision and Support Program (ISSP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multifaceted program for persistent young offenders that is delivered jointly by police, social services, and education professionals. The goal is to reduce crime attributable to those whose persistent anti-social behavior has led to multiple arrests, cautions, and prosecutions. |
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