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:
1446 Programs
| Brief Description | ||
|---|---|---|
Taking Charge Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to promote long-term self-sufficiency of pregnant and parenting teenagers using cognitive-behavioral therapy and skills training. |
Talent Search |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to help youth from disadvantaged backgrounds prepare for and gain access to college by providing academic, career, and financial counseling. |
Teen Health Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-level HIV prevention program designed for at risk adolescents. |
Teens and Toddlers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to decrease teenage pregnancy by raising the aspirations and educational attainment of 13-17 year old girls at most risk of social exclusion, leaving education early, and becoming pregnant. |
Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A pre-K program to help disadvantaged children by giving them access to quality instruction, improving readiness for elementary school, and preventing long-term academic, social, and economic problems. |
Tertiary Health Research Intervention via Email (THRIVE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief, web-based survey that aims to decrease the amount of hazardous drinking in university students through personalized feedback. |
Text Messaging to Reduce Absenteeism |
Inconclusive Evidence | A text-messaging program for parents that aims to reduce absenteeism among elementary school children. |
Texts for Summer Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that sends text messages to parents during the summer to increase the engagement with their children in reading activities and to improve summer learning. |
The Michigan Model of Infant Mental Health Home Visiting |
Inconclusive Evidence | A relationship-based home visiting program that aims to enhance responsive caregiving and improve child social-emotional development. |
Three Generation Study (Home-Based Mentoring for Pregnant Teens) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based intervention aimed at preventing adolescents who have children from having further children through counseling from women with similar experiences. |
Time to Read |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based, 1-hour per week volunteer program aiming to improve children’s reading skills with an emphasis on children discovering the enjoyment of reading and improving their reading fluency. |
Tobacco-free Duo (T-Duo) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent adolescent tobacco use through yearly antitobacco instruction and a contract made with an adult to remain smoke-free for three years. |
Together Learning Choices (formerly Teens Linked to Care) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A series of counseling modules designed to reduce sexual and substance use risk acts, improve physical health behaviors, and improve mental health among young people living with HIV. |
Too Good For Drugs (Middle School) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to reduce drug, alcohol, and tobacco use in middle school students through increasing peer resistance skills, increasing positive attitudes regarding the inappropriateness of substance use, increasing knowledge of the prevalence of peer substance use, increasing positive perceptions of peer disapproval of substance use and increasing internal locus of control/self-efficacy. |
Too Good For Violence (K-8) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to reduce risk and build protective factors related to violence in elementary and middle school students. |
Tools for Getting Along (TFGA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-delivered intervention designed to decrease student aggression and strengthen prosocial behavior through classroom lessons. |
Tooty Fruity Vegie (TFV) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school based intervention designed to positively impact preschool children’s weight status by improving fundamental movement skills and food consumption patterns, and by reducing the amount of unhealthy snack items consumed. |
Transform Us! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior in students in the third grade through lessons and teacher encouragement. |
Transitional Jobs After Prison Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive program designed to remove barriers to employment by finding transitional jobs for former prisoners, providing social skills training and job coaching, and helping them find permanent jobs. |
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (aka CBT for Child Sexual Abuse) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A counseling program designed to reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress in children by helping them talk about their experiences and cope with their feelings and concerns relating to their abuse and assisting parents in coping with abuse-specific distress and responding effectively to their children’s emotional and behavioral problems. |
Triple P – Positive Parenting Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to prevent severe behavioral, emotional and developmental problems in children from birth to age 12 by enhancing the knowledge, skills and confidence of parents. |
Truancy Assessment and Service Center (TASC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based, intensive case management program that uses a staged approach to engage elementary school-age children and their families with the overall goal of decreasing truancy. |
Tuning in to Kids |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program intended to help children correctly identify and resolve emotional and behavioral problems by developing supportive, emotionally responsive parents. |
Turtle |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent and child skills training program intended to help shy preschoolers become more confident and socially active and to reduce behavioral inhibition, internalizing, and anxiety through individual and family counseling. |
Unified Champion Schools |
Inconclusive Evidence | A whole-school program designed to improve the educational experience of disabled and non-disabled students through socially inclusive school activities. |
University of Illinois Suicide Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A university-based mental health program to reduce the rate of suicide among at-risk students. |
Unplugged (EU-Dap) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to reduce alcohol and drug use amongst junior high students. |
Urban Debate League |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school debate program that aims to increase graduation rates and college readiness, improve academic skills, and raise standardized test scores among high school students. By most helping minority and at-risk students, the program also aims to reduce educational disparities. |
Video Cyberbullying Intervention for College Students |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief video-based online intervention to reduce cyberbullying among college students. |
Video Interaction Project (VIP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A relationship-based, individualized parent-child intervention that is administered to families in the context of pediatric primary care and intends to enhance cognitive, language, and socioemotional development of young children. |
Video Interactive Guidance (Mothers and Young Children) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program where parents and their children watch and discuss short videos together with a trained guide. The goal is to improve communication and build stronger relationships. |
Viewpoints |
Inconclusive Evidence | A juvenile corrections-based program to decrease antisocial behaviors, including aggression, by developing social and cognitive skills. |
Web ABC |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based program for Chinese American adolescents and their parents to promote healthy lifestyle choices and healthy bodies. |
Wellbeing Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | An internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for adults that aims to treat depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder both with and without agoraphobia. |
Wilson Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A reading program that aims to improve the decoding and encoding skills of struggling readers from second grade through adulthood. The focus is on direct and systematic instruction of phonemic awareness, decoding and word study, sight word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development, and comprehension. |
Wolf Trap Arts in Education: Arts Integration |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development program for prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers that aims to improve their students’ academic and social skills through the incorporation of performing arts strategies in instruction. |
Women on the Road to Health (WORTH) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for community corrections settings that combines four in-person group sessions with either face-to-face learning or computerized self-paced modules, both designed to reduce the risk of intimate partner victimization among substance using women. |
Work Release (Adult Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | This is a transitional intervention to reduce post-release recidivism by allowing offenders to hold regular jobs in the community during the last few months of incarceration |
Working on Womanhood (WOW) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based group counseling program that seeks to improve the mental health of female adolescents by enhancing individual competencies to make positive and healthy decisions. |
X:IT |
Inconclusive Evidence | A year-long school-based program with a social influence approach that aims to reduce adolescent smoking through environmental, parental, and educational components. |
Xtreme Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program for struggling adolescent readers that aims to bring their reading skills up to proficiency. |
Year Up Professional Training Corps |
Inconclusive Evidence | A training and internship program that takes place on college campuses to help young people with limited post-secondary education learn how to work with technology, develop employment skills, extend their education, and obtain good jobs. |
Young Parenthood Program (YPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community or home-based counseling program for expectant adolescent couples that is designed to improve positive parenting by supporting interpersonal skill development. |
Youth COMPASS |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online acceptance and commitment therapy program that aims to promote adolescent mental health through weekly modules and written feedback designed to encourage integrity, goal setting, mindfulness, and self-compassion. |
Youth Fit 4 Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program with the aim of reducing and preventing childhood obesity through teaching self-regulation skills, presenting nutritional information, and participating in physical activity. |
Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A social support program that aims to supplement routine care for suicidal adolescents following psychiatric hospitalization by providing psychoeducation to youth-nominated adult social support providers. |
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