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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Families Talking Together |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program designed to prevent sexual risk behavior among Latino and African American young adults through a parent-based intervention. |
Fast Track |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component intervention designed to prevent antisocial behavior in at-risk children. |
FOCUS: Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unwanted Pregnancies among Young Women |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program designed to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies (UPs) in young, sexually active women. |
Full-Day Prekindergarten |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program of full-day Prekindergarten aimed at increasing school readiness. |
H&R Block College Financial Aid Application Assistance |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial aid application assistance program for lower-income teenagers and their families provided at H&R block offices. |
Healthy Weight |
Not Dissemination Ready | A one-time intervention program for adolescent females with body image concerns aimed at preventing eating disorders and obesity. |
Learning Accounts |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial-incentive program designed for high school students that provides an early guarantee of a grant worth up to $8,000 for post-secondary education, conditional on high school completion. |
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component program that aims to decrease antisocial behavior and increase their prosocial behavior in children by targeting the family, school, and peer domains. |
Literacy Express |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program that aims to improve preschool emergent literacy among both Spanish-speaking English language learners and English-speaking children, using teacher-led small groups and a designated curriculum. |
Making Pre-K Count + High 5s |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge for low-income kindergarten students. |
Midwestern Prevention Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A comprehensive community-based program designed to decrease the rates of onset and prevalence of drug use (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana) in young adolescents (aged 10-15) and to decrease drug use among parents and other residents of intervention communities. |
Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability |
Not Dissemination Ready | A community-based program that aims to prevent recidivism among sexual offenders through support provided by 4-6 community volunteers during the reentry period after prison. |
MyTeachingPartner-Secondary |
Not Dissemination Ready | A professional development program for secondary level teachers that focuses on motivating and enhancing teachers’ daily interactions with students to improve student academic performance. |
New Beginnings (for children of divorce) – Dual Component Version |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based intervention for divorced parents and their children to promote resilience in children after parental divorce. |
One Summer Plus (OSP) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A youth employment program designed to reduce adolescent crime by providing youth with summertime work and socio-emotional learning opportunities. |
Organizational Skills Training |
Not Dissemination Ready | A clinic-based program designed to ameliorate organization, time management, and planning difficulties in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and thereby improve behavior and academic functioning. |
Penn Resiliency Program |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to reduce depressive symptoms among middle-school students. |
Positive Family Support |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family-based, 3-tiered intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior and risk for substance abuse and depression and improve family management practices and communication skills, as well as adolescents’ self-regulation skills and prosocial behaviors. |
Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics Tutorial (PKMT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program targeting pre-K students scoring in the lowest quartile for mathematics to improve their performance in mathematics. |
Prime Time |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component youth development program designed to reduce pregnancy risk and aggression among high-risk adolescent girls. |
Project Northland |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-level program designed to reduce teen alcohol use through classroom curricula, peer leadership, youth-driven extra-curricular activities, parent involvement programs, and community activism. |
Promise Academy |
Not Dissemination Ready | A K-8 charter school that intends to improve student achievement through a program of academic rigor, student support, and non-academic services. |
Resilience Triple P |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family counseling program intended to reduce childhood bullying and enhance emotional resilience through facilitative parenting training and social and emotional skills training for children. |
SAFE (Schools and Families Educating) Children |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family intervention designed to prevent later drug abuse by helping 5 to 6 year old children make the transition to elementary school, have a successful first year, and set a strong base for the future. |
Safer California Universities |
Not Dissemination Ready | An environmental or community-based prevention program designed to reduce the likelihood and incidence of university student intoxication at off-campus settings through enforcement of drinking regulations and publicity regarding problem drinking. |
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. |
SPARK |
Not Dissemination Ready | An early-grade family-school-community partnership model that uses one-on-one tutoring and family engagement strategies across two school years to improve students’ reading and literacy skills and school attendance. |
SpellRead |
Not Dissemination Ready | A comprehensive reading intervention for struggling readers in grades 3 and 5 that integrates the five essential elements of reading instruction: phonemic awareness (sound processing), phonics (sound-letter relationships), fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. |
Steps to Respect |
Not Dissemination Ready | An anti-bullying curriculum designed to reduce bullying and destructive bystander behaviors, increase prosocial beliefs related to bullying, and increase social-emotional skills through a grade appropriate literature unit and other educational materials and lessons. |
Summer Counseling |
Not Dissemination Ready | A counseling program offered during the summer following high school graduation to ensure that college-intending students actually enroll in college. The program helps the students to overcome unanticipated financial, informational and emotional barriers that hinder college enrollment. |
Summer Counseling — Texts |
Not Dissemination Ready | A counseling program offered during the summer following high school graduation to ensure that college-intending students actually enroll in college. The program helps the students to overcome unanticipated financial, informational and emotional barriers that hinder college enrollment. |
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation College Scholarship |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial aid program designed for economically disadvantaged high school seniors who are college-bound, have yet to make their initial enrollment decisions, and seek financial assistance to help them afford college. |
Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (TOPP) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A nurse-delivered intervention intended to reduce rapid repeat pregnancies and sexual risk behavior among low-income, pregnant, and postpartum adolescent females using motivational interviewing techniques with contraceptive access. |
Wisconsin Scholars Grant |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial aid program designed for economically disadvantaged high school seniors who are college-bound, have yet to make their initial enrollment decisions, and seek financial assistance to help them afford college. |
Young Adult Internship Program |
Not Dissemination Ready | A workforce development program intended to help young adults gain long-term, stable employment through an internship and other support services. |
Accelerate, Complete, Engage (ACE) |
Under Review | A post-secondary support program that aims to promote bachelor’s degree attainment in college students through comprehensive advisement and career development provided by dedicated advisors. |
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. |
Bridges to High School Program/Projecto Puentes a la Secundaria |
Under Review | A family-focused program for adolescents that builds youth and family competencies to improve emotional well-being and academics and reduce substance use following the transition to middle school. This is a culturally grounded intervention specifically designed to be used with families of Mexican descent (both U.S.-born and immigrant families). |
Family Spirit |
Under Review | A parent training program for young Native American mothers that is designed to increase parenting knowledge, involvement, and stimulation of the child in the home environment, which over time helps to improve children’s social, emotional, and behavioral development and the mother’s well-being. |
Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens (FHF-T) |
Under Review | A mentoring program for 8th and 9th grade youth with child welfare involvement aimed to prevent and/or reduce delinquency and juvenile justice involvement. |
InsideTrack |
Under Review | A program for college students that aims to promote academic engagement and retention through individualized mentoring delivered by coaches via phone, email, text messaging or social media. |
INSIGHTS into Children’s Temperament |
Under Review | A multi-component school-based program that aims to support attentional and behavioral self-regulation and improve academic outcomes in children. |
KIPP Charter Schools – Secondary |
Under Review | The charter secondary schools seek to dramatically improve student academic achievement by engaging students and parents in the educational process, expanding the time and effort students devote to their studies, and reinforcing students’ social competencies and positive behaviors. |
Linking Information and Families Together (LIFT) |
Under Review | A program aimed to lower rates of adolescent substance use in middle school by providing parents with information about their child’s academic performance and behavior. |
Smartphone App to Reduce Drinking |
Under Review | A program to reduce unhealthy alcohol use among college students through the use of a smartphone app. |
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