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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Mindfulness-Enhanced Strengthening Families 10-14 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group-based program for parents and children that aims to improve parenting and parent-child relationship quality through mindfulness activities. |
Minding the Baby (MTB) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that provides an integrated model of care for first-time young mothers and their families in bridging primary care and mental health approaches to enhancing parenting and the mother-infant relationship. |
MindLight |
Inconclusive Evidence | A video game-based intervention designed to help children regulate and reduce anxiety problems. |
MindOut |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based social and emotional learning program to improve social and emotional well-being in adolescents. |
MINISTOP |
Inconclusive Evidence | An obesity prevention program for preschool-aged children implemented through a mobile phone app for parents. |
Minnesota Reading Corps |
Inconclusive Evidence | A statewide program that seeks to ensure that students with reading problems meet reading proficiency targets by the end of the third grade and become successful readers. |
Minnesota Transitional Sex Offender Treatment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison-based cognitive-behavioral training program designed to prevent recidivism among sexual offenders through therapy, support groups, and psychoeducational training. |
Mobile Coach Alcohol |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mobile-based program that aims to reduce and prevent adolescent binge-drinking by teaching strategies to resist alcohol, as well as providing information on outpatient alcohol counseling. |
Montessori Preschool Education |
Inconclusive Evidence | A pre-school education aimed at social and cognitive development of children. |
Montreal Longitudinal and Experimental Study (MLES) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program designed for boys between the ages of 7 and 9 years that aims to reduce disruptive, antisocial and delinquent behaviors in the short-term and substance use behaviors in the long-term. |
MoodGYM (The YouthMood Project) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An internet-based program that aims to prevent and reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents. |
More Fun With Sisters and Brothers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to help siblings 4-8 years of age strengthen their relationship by developing emotional competencies and prosocial behaviors. It also aims to reduce the amount of parental regulation required. |
Mother-Infant Transaction Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to help parents of preterm infants establish stronger emotional attachments with their infants and thereby improve behavioral outcomes among infants later in life. |
Motivation in Mathematics |
Inconclusive Evidence | Two school-based, short interventions designed to improve students’ achievement in mathematics. |
Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MET/CBT-5) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive behavioral therapy program that seeks to reduce the use of alcohol among adolescents. |
Motivational Interviewing for Physically Aggressive Dating Couples |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intervention designed to resolve physical and psychological aggression in college-aging dating couples by facilitating behavior change. |
Motivational Interviewing to improve Academic Performance |
Inconclusive Evidence | A one-session intervention that aims to improve academic performance in middle school children. |
Moving to Opportunity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A residential mobility program that relocates poor families living in the poorest neighborhoods of the five largest cities in the U.S. in order to reduce poverty and improve positive life outcomes among participants. Specifically, it seeks to increase employment and reduce violent and criminal offending and victimization. |
Multicomponent Literacy Instruction in Social Studies |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to enhance vocabulary knowledge and comprehension among middle school students, with special attention to English language learners. |
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to ameliorate adolescent drug use and associated behavioral problems. |
Multisystemic Therapy – Health Care (MST-HC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | Multisystemic Therapy – Health Care (MST-HC) is an adaptation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), a home- and community-based family therapy program for treating severe behavior problems in youth. The MST-HC adaptation targets severe problems with illness management in adolescents with various chronic medical conditions such as asthma, obesity, and Type 1 diabetes. |
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A therapeutic intervention designed to help abusive and neglectful parents develop appropriate parental control techniques and to improve parent-child interactions. |
Multisystemic Therapy with Psychiatric Supports (MST-Psychiatric) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive family-centered home-based treatment designed to improve mental health symptoms, suicidal behaviors, and family relations among youth presenting psychiatric emergencies. An additional goal of this program is to provide an alternative to or reductions in hospitalization or other out-of-home placements stays, thus reducing the number of days out of school. |
My Baby and Me |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based program aiming at developing mothers’ responsive behaviors with their children across the infant and toddler developmental periods. |
Naltrexone Treatment for Opioid Abuse |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for criminal offenders with a history of opioid dependence designed to prevent relapse by providing injections of an extended-release formulation of naltrexone, a drug that blocks the euphoric effects of opioids. |
National Guard Youth Challenge Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 3-stage program designed to provide high-risk youth with experiences, settings, and relationships that promote completion of education, successful employment, and positive behavior during the transition to adulthood. |
NCRECE Professional Development for Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development program for pre-school teachers that aims to improve the quality of teacher-child interactions and thereby to reduce student absenteeism. |
New Hope |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive set of integrated program services designed to address longstanding problems associated with the low-wage labor market, such as employment and economic self-sufficiency. |
New York City P-TECH 9-14 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A high school-based program that provides students opportunities and skills to engage in dual enrollment and in internships to increase high school graduation rates, postsecondary education enrollment, degree attainment, and employment. |
New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that provides children of low-income families in the New York City attending public elementary schools with scholarships to attend private schools. |
Nutrition on the Go |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to maintain the Body Mass Index (BMI) values and curb the growth of obesity in school children. |
Oakland Beat Health |
Inconclusive Evidence | A civil remedy program designed to reduce and prevent crime in certain areas by changing the appearance of the area. |
Op Volle Kracht |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and increase happiness, coping, and self-efficacy among adolescents. |
Open Circle (Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to enhance students’ social competency and problem-solving skills. |
Opening Doors Learning Communities |
Inconclusive Evidence | The program aims to improve the success of community college students entering their freshman year by creating learning communities that integrate students into the social and academic life of college. |
Opening the World of Learning (OWL) Building Blocks PreKindergarten Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prekindergarten program designed to improve children’s mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills. |
Operation Swordfish |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program designed to reduce residential burglary through police-led target-hardening of previously burgled homes. |
Parent Based Intervention for College Students |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-based alcohol prevention program designed to reduce alcohol use among incoming college students and sexual victimization as a result of heavy drinking by raising parental awareness of alcohol abuse and consequences among college students and increasing parental effort to address this issue with their teen. |
Parent Connectors |
Inconclusive Evidence | A telephone-based parent support program designed to increase the engagement of parents of children with emotional disturbances in the education and mental health services their child receives, which, in return, increase the engagement of children in mental health services and improve child school functioning. |
Parent Engagement Project (PEP) [Texting Parents] |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program designed to improve academic performance and attendance among secondary school students by keeping parents informed on their child’s school performance via text messages. |
Parent Panel |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief psycho-social intervention designed to train parents in how to communicate with their children about academics via a panel discussion session. |
Parent-Delivered Early Language Enrichment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-delivered academic service to enhance language skills among preschool-aged children. |
Parental Training for Lone Mothers Guided by Educators (PALME) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed for single mothers to reduce maternal depression, which helps to stabilize the mother-child relationship. |
Parenting Adolescents: A Creative Experience (PACE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to improve parents’ communication skills and relationships with adolescents in order to reduce adolescent risk factors implicated in youth suicide. |
Parenting Mindfully |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mindfulness program for stressed parents of adolescents that aims to increase parent-adolescent relationship quality and reduce adolescent problem behaviors. |
Parenting With Love and Limits (PLL) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reestablish parenting authority, improve parent-child interaction, and reduce behavior problems and criminal offending of youth. |
Parents as Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that supports positive child development by providing information and guidance to parents and by helping parents in being the first teachers of their children. |
Parents Plus Adolescents Program (PPAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reduce adolescent antisocial and problem behaviors by teaching parents positive parenting and discipline strategies. |
PASS Reading Enhancement Program (PREP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A remedial reading comprehension program for primary school-aged children who are experiencing difficulty with reading and spelling. |
Pathway Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program that aims to improve the reading and writing skills of English learners in middle school and high school, by training and supporting English teachers to provide students with explicit instruction and practice of the cognitive strategies required to understand, interpret, and write essays about complex text. |
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