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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Excess Weight Gain |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 12-week program designed to prevent excess weight gain and disordered eating in adolescent girls by improving communication skills and interpersonal relationships. |
Interventions for Boys with Conduct Problems |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home- and classroom-based program to reduce the behavioral problems of boys labeled with conduct disorder. |
Israeli Work Release Rehabilitation Program (Adult Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program designed to reduce recidivism among low-risk offenders. |
It’s Your Game: Keep it Real (IYG) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based health education program designed to delay sexual behavior and promote healthy dating relationships among ethnic-minority middle school youths. |
Job Corps |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive residential program to increase employment and reduce crime among disadvantaged youth by providing them with educational programming, vocational training, mental health support, and related services. The program further aims to improve prospects for lifetime earnings and promote responsible citizenship. |
JOBSTART |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program designed to improve the educational attainment and occupational skills of high-school dropouts, enabling them to obtain better jobs and higher income. |
Just/Us |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program to reduce sexual risk behavior among adolescents and young adults by delivering sexual health education and support through social media. |
Keep Cool |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program to reduce disruptive behaviors in students by teaching them social cognitive skills such as problem solving, cognitive restructuring, and social engagement. |
keepin’ it REAL |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that prepares students to resist substance use in a manner most culturally relevant and familiar to them through the teaching of communication skills, problem-solving, and risk assessment. |
Kind Acts |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to enhance happiness, prosocial behavior, and peer acceptance in preadolescents by prompting them to perform acts of kindness each week. |
Kindness Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to enhance executive function, self-regulation, and prosocial behavior through a mindfulness-based training curriculum delivered by mindfulness instructors during the regular school day. The program consists of two 20-30 min lessons each week over a 12-week period. |
Leader In Me |
Inconclusive Evidence | A whole-school intervention designed to develop leadership skills among elementary school-aged students. |
Learning about Activity and Understanding Nutrition for Child Health (LAUNCH) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 6-month behavioral intervention designed to reduce obesity in indicated preschool children by providing healthy eating and activity strategies to parents. |
Learning Strategies Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A supplemental, targeted intervention intended to help students with reading, writing, and academic competence. |
Learning to BREATHE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation in adolescents and college students. |
Lessons in Character |
Inconclusive Evidence | A literature-based character education program implemented in schools that is designed to reinforce learning and promote prosocial behaviors among elementary-aged students. |
Letting Go and Staying Connected |
Inconclusive Evidence | An interactive parent-adolescent handbook intervention designed to provide parents with strategies to decrease first-year college student risk behaviors by increasing family protective factors. |
Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to help early learners achieve grade-level literacy competency. |
Linking Families and Teens |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family communication and sexual health education program that aims to reduce unplanned teen pregnancies among rural youth by promoting family connectedness and increasing youth self-efficacy, knowledge, and skills related to sexual health. |
Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to: 1) decrease violence and substance abuse by encouraging youth to develop social and communication skills; 2) improve relationships with peers, family, teachers, and community; 3) increase knowledge of drugs; 4) increase problem solving, goal-making, and reading skills; and 5) develop a better self-image. |
LISA (LARS&LISA) – CBT Depression Prevention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral training program designed to prevent the onset or increase in depressive symptoms among middle-school students. |
Living Insurance/Financial Aid for Ex-Offenders (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | Financial aids provided to recently released ex-offenders who have a high risk of recidivism for nonviolent property crimes as a way to remove the economic motivations behind recidivism. |
Louisiana Health Study |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based obesity prevention program designed to reduce overweight and obesity among elementary school students through environmental modification and the fostering of healthy behavior patterns. |
Love Notes |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to reduce aggression, risky sexual behavior, and dating violence by teaching adolescents about healthy sexuality, abuse in dating, and healthy relationships. |
MAC-Choice |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral training program designed to educate youth about the risks of unsafe sex, develop a decision-making process to motivate changes toward safer sex practices, and provide behavioral and social skills training to achieve safer sex goals. |
Machine Learning Risk Forecasts (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to reduce recidivism among parolees by helping to better assess the risks of a prospective parolee at parole hearings. |
Magnitude Card Game |
Inconclusive Evidence | A play-based intervention designed to narrow the early mathematics gap between low- and middle-income preschoolers. |
Make a Move |
Inconclusive Evidence | A childhood obesity prevention parent training program designed to positively influence the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of low-income preschool-aged children in terms of their physical activity and eating habits. |
Manville Moves (Cybercycling) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce classroom behavioral problems and ultimately improve learning in children. |
Martha’s True Stories (MTS) Buddies Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cross-age peer learning program designed to improve vocabulary and comprehension among kindergarten and elementary school students. |
Massachusetts Wraparound Zone Initiative (WAZ) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive initiative to help struggling schools improve student outcomes through both academic and nonacademic supports. Specific goals include improved English language arts and mathematics scores and attendance as well as reduced suspensions. |
MATCH (Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An integrative approach to treating children and adolescents who present either one or a combination of mental health problems relating to anxiety, depression, trauma or disruptive conduct. |
Math Recovery |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to to identify students who are struggling with mathematics and improve their mathematics skills through tutoring by trained, certified teachers. |
Maytiv (Doing Good) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase students’ life satisfaction, positive emotions, and positive peer relationships while decreasing their negative emotions through teacher-taught lessons on topics such as gratitude, kindness and compassion, mindfulness, and goal setting. |
Me & You |
Inconclusive Evidence | An in-person and online intervention to reduce dating violence among early adolescents. |
Media Aware |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online program meant to reduce sexual risk behaviors and improve attitudes and intentions about sex. |
Media Heroes (Medienhelden) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based prevention program that aims to reduce and prevent cyber bullying in adolescents. |
Media Smart |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce eating disorders and risk factors for eating problems and weight gain among adolescents. |
Mellow Babies |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group intervention that aims to reduce maternal depression and improve mother-infant interactions. |
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to convert positive thoughts and images among children into effective action to improve academic performance. |
Mental Health Court: Butte County (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety, to better support mentally ill offenders with mental health services and other provisions to increase their quality of life, and to reduce recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Mental Health Court: San Francisco (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to increase public safety by reducing the likelihood of re-arrest and time in jail among offenders with mental illness. |
Mental Health Court: Southeast US (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | The program aims to reduce recidivism among mentally ill offenders and in doing so reduce court loads, local jail and prison overcrowding while insuring public safety. |
Mental Health Courts: Multisite Study (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety and to prevent recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention program that aims to prevent opioid-addicted patients from continued use of harmful opioids by taking methadone to alleviate withdrawal symptoms, reduce opiate cravings, and bring about a biochemical balance in the body. |
Michigan Model for Health |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention curriculum designed to decrease students’ use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. |
Milwaukee Safe Street Prisoner Release Initiative |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multifaceted approach to adult crime that combines needs-based employment and wraparound services for prisoners. |
Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mindfulness program to improve executive functioning in children. |
Mindfulness + Reflection |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase executive function in preschoolers through training in mindfulness and reflection delivered by teachers in the regular classroom setting. |
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that uses mindfulness exercises to reduce symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression. |
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