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 | ||
|---|---|---|
School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to increase students’ civic knowledge, sense of civic responsibility, tolerance for other’s ideas, and respect for authority and law by incorporating violence prevention strategies into a required classroom civic education curriculum. |
School-Based Fitness Curriculum to Reduce Diabetes Risk in Children |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to improve body composition, cardiovascular fitness level, and insulin sensitivity in overweight children through a fitness-oriented gym class. |
School-Based Health Centers (School Dropout) |
Insufficient Evidence | A quasi-experimental evaluation to determine if school-based health centers impact the likelihood of dropping out of high school. |
School-Based Health Centers (Substance Abuse) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to disrupt the development of substance abuse and other poverty-related mental/physical health problems, by providing affordable, adequate, and consistent mental/physical health care. |
School-Based Intervention for Cyberbullying |
Insufficient Evidence | A whole-school awareness-raising program designed to reduce and prevent cyberbullying among adolescents by addressing moral disengagement, empathy, and attitudes towards bullying. |
School-Based Kripalu Yoga |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to develop coping skills and resilience, reduce stress, and improve well-being through a school-based yoga program. |
School-Based Obesity Prevention Program (Chile) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program intended to reduce obesity in primary school children in Chile through a school-based nutrition education and physical activity program. |
School-Based Pediatric Obesity Prevention Facilitated by Health Professionals |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to slow the rate of weight gain and promote healthful behaviors in elementary school children. |
School-Based Tutoring Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based afterschool tutoring designed to improve at-risk students’ achievement in language arts and mathematics. |
School-based Weight Management Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to provide training to children and their parents in order to develop healthy lifestyles and reduce the increase in BMI. |
School-to-Jobs (STJ) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to improve academic achievement for minority and low socioeconomic status youth through improving academic confidence and teaching skills. |
School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive school-wide intervention that aims to decrease existing disruptive behaviors displayed by students in the classroom, prevent future incidents, and maximize student learning through discipline, conflict resolution, one-on-one tutoring, and family management. |
Schoolchildren & Their Families Project (SATFP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent-training program intended to promote long-term healthy school adjustment in children by improving relationships between the child and parent, and between the parents, when children are entering kindergarten/elementary school. |
Schools and Homes in Partnership (SHIP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive school-based intervention designed to decrease children’s aggressive behavior and reading difficulties during early elementary school years through parent training, social behavior interventions, and supplemental reading instruction. |
Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley (SFAW) Mathematics |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher instruction intervention intended to increase the math achievement of pre-kindergarten through sixth grade children. |
Scottish Childhood Overweight Treatment Trial (SCOTT) |
Insufficient Evidence | An individualized behavior program designed to treat health problems associated with children who are overweight or obese. |
SEALS (Supporting Early Adolescents’ Learning and Social Success) |
Insufficient Evidence | A teacher-training program designed to improve student academic outcomes by using professional development to enhance teachers’ capacity to shape student peer norms and create supportive learning environments for early adolescents. |
Seattle Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A pre-booking diversion program that aims to reduce recidivism by providing individuals suspected of low-level drug and prostitution offenses with legal assistance and case management instead of prosecution and incarceration. |
Seattle Social Development Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-wide program intended to reduce school failure, drug abuse, and delinquency by enhancing students’ opportunities, skills and rewards in the classroom and at home. |
Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration Programs |
Inconclusive Evidence | A re-entry program that intends to reduce recidivism post-release by providing social services to incarcerated and recently paroled offenders. |
Second Step |
Insufficient Evidence | An age-appropriate classroom curriculum designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and increase their level of social competence through teaching empathy, impulse control, and anger management. |
Second Step – Elementary Version |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom curriculum intended to prevent violence by teaching children skills that strengthen their ability to learn, have empathy, manage emotions, and solve problems. |
Second Step Early Learning |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preschool-based school readiness curriculum developed to increase social emotional and executive functioning skills. |
Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention (SS-SSTP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom curriculum intended to reduce aggression, violence, and victimization in a school setting through teaching empathy, communication, and bullying prevention. |
Seeking Safety |
Inconclusive Evidence | A psychotherapy program designed to treat combined diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), and to improve pyschosocial functioning of participants. |
Selbyville Peer Mediation Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer mediator program that aims to decrease the number of office referrals and detentions/suspensions based on conflicts between students. |
Self-Affirmation Writing Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | To improve the school performance of students in groups that are negatively stereotyped such as ethnic minorities. |
Self-Regulation Empowerment Program (SREP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve the mathematics skills of at-risk middle school students through small group meetings . The program is carried out during school hours in small group meetings that focus on developing students’ strategic thinking and actions. |
Self-Regulation Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preschool-based program that aims to improve academic performance by increasing self-regulation skills among preschool children through brief playgroups. |
Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A work-incentive program intended to facilitate healthy development in children through encouraging stable employment among single parents receiving income assistance by supplementing their earnings to a standard amount. |
SellSmart / ServeSmart |
Insufficient Evidence | A toolkit that aims to reduce sales of alcohol to underage customers by increasing positive alcohol retailer attitudes towards checking IDs, encouraging retail managers to formalize ID checking procedures with their employees, and notifying consumers to be prepared to show ID when purchasing alcohol. |
Sembrando Salud |
Insufficient Evidence | A culturally-sensitive, school-based curriculum intended to prevent or reduce the susceptibility to tobacco and alcohol use among high-risk migrant children and adolescents, to improve communication with parents, and to change attitudes toward tobacco use. |
Separation Anxiety Family Therapy (Trennungs Angstprogramm Fur Familien: TAFF) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral treatment program that aims to reduce the symptoms of separation anxiety in children through treatment provided to both the parent and child. |
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiatives (SVORI) |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-to-community transitional program intended to prepare high-risk offenders for successful community reintegration through institutional and community programming, thereby decreasing serious and violent crime and enhancing community safety. |
Serious Offender Accountability Restoration (SOAR) |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-to-community transitional program that seeks to reduce recidivism of high-risk adult and juvenile offenders through a diversified approach that includes comprehensive treatment, case management, and community involvement. |
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-staff training program designed to help improve student performance; reduce conflicts, disciplinary problems, and truancy; and to enhance cooperation and teamwork among parents, teens, and parents. |
Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Program (SAPEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based training and discussion program designed to reduce sexual victimization through changing sexual abuse attitudes and knowledge among high school girls in Nigeria. |
Sexual Abuse, Family Education and Treatment (SAFE-T) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to prevent repeat sexual abuse through sexual abuse specific assessment, treatment, consultation, and long-term support to (1) child victims of incest and their families-including adult incest offenders, (2) children with sexual behavior problems and their families, and (3) adolescent sexual offenders and their families. |
Sexual Risk-Reduction Intervention plus Alcohol and Cannabis Content |
Inconclusive Evidence | A correctional facility-based intervention intended to reduce STI incidence and sexual risk behaviors among juvenile offenders through a single group session that focuses on changing attitudes about risk, alcohol, and cannabis. |
Sexuality Education Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | A rights-based sexuality education curriculum designed to improve adolescents’ sexual health behaviors and psychosocial outcomes. |
Shadow Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A culturally and historically relevant enhanced family intervention intended to reduce adolescent alcohol and other drug use in American Indians and Alaska Natives. |
Shaping Healthy Choices |
Insufficient Evidence | A multicomponent nutrition intervention intended to improve dietary behaviors and prevent childhood obesity through nutrition education and promotion, family and community partnerships, supporting regional agriculture, improving foods available on the school campus, and school wellness committees and policies. |
Shaping the Social |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that sims to promote student wellbeing while reducing smoking and school dropout through the integration of educational and social goals. |
Shifting Boundaries |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent dating violence and sexual harassment through teaching the importance of determining and articulating personal boundaries among middle school students, while also fostering a protective school environment. |
Sisters Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A comprehensive program intended to ensure the coordination of drug treatment, prenatal, postpartum, pediatric, and family support services for pregnant and postpartum women through peer support and paraprofessional case management. |
Situational Crime Prevention in Schools |
Insufficient Evidence | An environmental intervention intended to reduce crime by reducing the opportunities to engage in it through increasing surveillance, locker searches, implementation of school uniforms, closed campuses during lunches, and methods to keep non-students and non-employees out of the schools. |
Skills for Growing |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent conduct problems and encourage prosocial behavior by promoting a broad set of social and emotional skills, character values, and life skills through social emotional learning. |
Skills for Life |
Insufficient Evidence | A social emotional learning program that aims to improve adolescent health behaviors (such as decreased smoking and alcohol use) and reduce bullying and suicidal ideation by encouraging and teaching pro-social behavior, interpersonal skills, self-awareness, and social awareness. |
Skills Learning Support Program (SLSP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase academic performance of educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds by developing their motivation and self-regulation skills. |
SMART Kids, SMART Teachers, SMART Parents |
Inconclusive Evidence | A small-group prevention program designed to reduce risk factors predictive of later substance abuse and enhance protective factors shown to buffer risk. |
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