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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Avon Park Youth Academy and Street Smart (APYA/SS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive vocational and educational training program that aims to promote life and community living skills and provide education and job training to facilitate self-sufficiency and a pro-social lifestyle. These goals are achieved by providing “real world” work experience and training on independent living skills within a normalized environment. |
Aventuras Para Ninos |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component intervention that aims to prevent and control childhood obesity among Latinos by changing the home/family and/or school/community environments. |
Availability, Responsiveness, and Continuity (ARC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An organizational intervention designed to improve mental health service outcomes for youth by helping community-based service settings to improve their social contexts. |
Aussie Optimism Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce and prevent anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior and promote social, emotional, and cognitive skills in school-aged children (6-11 years of age). |
Auglaize County Transition Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An offender reentry program that aims to provide wraparound services to address the multidimensional problems faced by jail inmates upon release. |
Attention Academy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mindfulness training program that aims to improve elementary school children’s learning experience by improving their ability to focus and deal with stressful situations. |
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that aims to facilitate caregiver behaviors that promote the healthy development of maltreated children and their ability to regulate emotion and behavior. It also aims to enhance sensitive, nurturing care among foster parents or other caregivers at high risk for maltreating their children. |
Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A drug prevention and health promotion program that deters substance use among high school adolescents in school sponsored athletics by educating youth on the harms of anabolic steroids, alcohol, and other drug use and promoting sports nutrition and exercise. |
At-Risk Youth Mentoring Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive mentoring program that aims to reduce problem behaviors among at-risk youth. |
Assisted Outpatient Treatment |
Insufficient Evidence | An involuntary outpatient program designed to reduce the risk of violence and arrest among individuals with serious mental illnesses. |
Assets for a Healthy Adolescence – Experiential Outdoor Service Learning (AHA-EOSL) |
Insufficient Evidence | An outdoor activities program that aims to increase peer and adult bonding, foster prosocial involvement, and reduce alcohol and marijuana use. |
ASSESS (Awareness, Skills, Self-efficacy/Self-esteem, and Social Support) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sex education program that aims to reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents by reducing the occurrence of sexual risk behaviors. |
Assertiveness Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A peer-led, group-based assertiveness training program that aims to teach assertive responses and decrease aggressive behavior among Black adolescent males. |
Assertion Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based assertion training approach that aims to reduce aggression among adolescents. |
Arrowhead Business Group |
Under Review | A strengths-based, multi-session entrepreneurship education program for adolescents from under-resourced communities that fosters adolescent connectedness to caring adults, healthy peers, and school and aims to improve behavioral health and foster economic development. This is a culturally grounded intervention that was co-created through a tribal-university partnership between the White Mountain Apache Tribe in northeastern Arizona and the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. |
Arrest, Reporting to the Police, and Victim Services for Intimate Partner Violence (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to prevent future physical and/or sexual victimization of abuse victims through instruction on policies used by police and other victims of intimate partner violence. |
Anxiety Management Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based universal prevention program that aims to help adolescent boys cope with stress and anxiety. |
Annual Book Fairs |
Inconclusive Evidence | A low-involvement long-term intervention that aims to improve reading achievement among students from low-income families. The program also aims to prevent students’ reading loss by improving their access to books during the summer months. |
Anger Management Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief group-based intervention that aims to reduce anger, aggression, and disruptive behavior among prisoners. |
Anger Coping Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An anger management program that aims to reduce disruptive aggressive behavior and increase self-esteem among early adolescent boys in the classroom and home settings. |
Anger Control Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based therapeutic approach designed to increase social-problem and self-control skills and reduce aggressive behavior among junior high students exhibiting high rates of classroom or community disruption. |
Anger and Other Emotions Management |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to reduce rates of recidivism among violent offenders by decreasing violent behavior and aggressive acts through skill-based training in pro-social behavior and emotion management. |
Anchorage Coordinated Agency Network |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive oversight program that aims to supplement levels of juvenile probationer supervision by augmenting the supervision already provided by juvenile probation officers with one-to-one police officer/probation contact. |
Anasazi Foundation: The Making of a Walking |
Insufficient Evidence | A wilderness therapy program for adolescents 12-17 years of age with emotional, behavioral, or substance use problems. |
Amity In-Prison Therapeutic Community |
Insufficient Evidence | A therapeutic community approach designed to reduce recidivism by providing in-prison structure and support for incarcerated substance abusers. Treatment extends into communities through the use of aftercare facilities. |
American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based adaptive skills training program that aims to reduce behavioral and cognitive factors (e.g., depression, aggression, substance abuse) related to suicide. |
Amazing Alternatives! Home Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A primary prevention program designed to promote communication between parents and their children, improve parenting skills (such as monitoring and supervision), and reduce underage drinking. |
Alternatives to Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to reduce prison infractions among inmates by developing strategies for violence avoidance. |
Alternatives for Youth’s Advocacy Program (AFY) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A civil advocacy program that aims to reduce juvenile offender placements by providing youth with legal representation. This representation aids youth in accessing disability services and defense attorney support for dispositional planning. |
Alternative to Suspension for Violent Behavior |
Insufficient Evidence | A conflict resolution training program that aims to reduce further violence among violent adolescents and their parents through the development of social problem-solving and thinking skills. |
Allgemeine Lebenskompetenzen und Fertigkeiten (ALF; general life competencies and skills) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to lower substance affinity and reduce the number of child substance abuse cases. |
All4You! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school- and community-based intervention that aims to reduce HIV/STI and pregnancy incidence among adolescents. |
All Stars Challenge |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based behavior management program designed to help students understand social norms for getting along through structured weekly activities. |
All Stars |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to decrease high-risk behaviors such as substance use, violence, and premature sexual activity among early adolescents. |
All Children Excel (ACE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-faceted, multi-agency intervention approach that seeks to promote the healthy development of juvenile offenders under the age of 10 who are at risk for chronic, violent offending later in life. |
AlcoholEdu for College |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online harm reduction course that aims to prevent alcohol misuse among college freshmen. |
Alcohol Skills Training Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief intervention that aims to reduce risky drinking behavior among college students through various techniques that target inaccurate perceptions of peer drinking patterns, challenge alcohol expectancy, and promote self-monitoring alcohol use behavior. |
Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study |
Inconclusive Evidence | An alcohol prevention program designed to provide students with the social skills necessary to avoid alcohol misuse. |
Alcohol Intervention Group (AIG) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce the use of alcohol among adolescents through motivational interviewing techniques. |
Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices |
Insufficient Evidence | An early childhood curriculum designed to promote pro-social skill development, self-control, positive social interactions, problem-solving, healthy-decision making, and conflict resolution among young children. |
Aktion Glasklar |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based alcohol reduction program that aims to combat youth drinking in Germany through instruction designed to increase knowledge, attitudes, and refusal skills surrounding alcohol consumption. |
Aggressors, Victims & Bystanders |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence reduction program designed to change beliefs that lead to violent behavior and teach students skills to de-escalate situations that could become violent. |
Aggression Replacement Training (ART) |
Insufficient Evidence | A skill-based program that aims to reduce rates of recidivism, enhance community function, and teach alternative prosocial behaviors through skill acquisition, anger control, and enhanced moral reasoning. |
Aggression Replacement Training (Adult) |
Insufficient Evidence | A skill-based program that aims to reduce the risk of further violence and recidivism among violent offenders through the identification, development, and practice of social skills for prosocial behavior. |
After-School Physical Activity Program for Black Girls |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program that aims to reduce obesity and improve physical fitness among children by encouraging engagement in healthy amounts of physical activity. |
Advancing School and Community Engagement Now for Disease Prevention (ASCEND) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based and family reinforced education program that aims to reduce and prevent childhood obesity and related social and medical issues through nutritional education and physical activity breaks. |
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) |
Insufficient Evidence | A set of elective high school courses designed to help students with mid-range academic performance and from traditionally underserved populations to graduate on time and enroll in college. |
Advanced Supervision and Intervention Support Team (ASIST) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison diversion program that targets recidivism and reincarceration among high risk offenders with mental illnesses. |
Adults in the Making (AIM) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce alcohol and substance use among African American youth by strengthening family bonds and enhancing self-regulatory processes. |
Adolescent Portable Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | An outpatient family-based service that aims to reduce substance abuse and recidivism among adolescents within the juvenile justice system. The program also aims to improve the educational, social, mental, and physical well-being of youth and their families. |
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