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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
Program Rating Brief Description
Coaching Boys into Men
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce dating violence by improving intentions to intervene in dating violence, recognition of abusive behaviors, attitudes toward gender equality, behaviors as a bystander, and abuse perpetration among high school male athletes.

Cogmed Computerized Training Program (RoboMemo)
Inconclusive Evidence

A skills-training program that aims to improve executive functions such as the use of working memory and the ability to focus on academic tasks through computerized cognitive training.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy plus Emotion Regulation
Inconclusive Evidence

The program aims to decrease or prevent problem drinking and improve emotional regulation among college students with interpersonal trauma histories.

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Children of Depressed Parents
Inconclusive Evidence

A family-based cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to enhance effective parenting in mothers and fathers with depression and prevent or reduce mental risks among children of depressed parents.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Offenders in Custody
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to address a variety of mental health needs among adolescents in custody of the juvenile justice system.

Cognitive Intervention for Stress and Anxiety Management
Inconclusive Evidence

A multi-phase school-based program designed to help adolescent boys cope with stress and anxiety.

Cognitive Mediation Training
Inconclusive Evidence

A group-based program designed to modify supportive beliefs about aggression utilization among incarcerated adolescents by focusing on social problem-solving skills.

Cognitive Skills / Cognitieve Vaardigheden (CoVa)
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-skills program designed to reduce reconviction rates among criminal offenders in the Netherlands.

Cognitive Tutor Algebra I
Inconclusive Evidence

A technology-based curriculum that aims to improve the algebraic proficiency of middle and high school students through computer tutorials and student-centered classroom activities.

Cognitively-based Compassion Training
Inconclusive Evidence

A contemplative program that aims to reduce stress and other associated physiological responses and foster acceptance and understanding of others by developing equanimity of the mind.

Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (Formerly Collaborative Problem Solving)
Inconclusive Evidence

A parenting program designed to promote healthier relationships between parents and children and reduce the severity of oppositional defiant disorder.

College Forward
Inconclusive Evidence

A comprehensive college advising program that aims to improve the postsecondary educational outcomes of economically-disadvantaged students.

Combined Dietary and Exercise Program for Children (CDEPC)
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to improve BMI, body composition, fitness, and serum lipid levels among obese children and adolescents.

Comer School Development Program
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program designed to create a positive, supportive, and wholesome school climate devoid of interpersonal violence. The program also aims to promote and support children’s development in six interrelated domains: physical, language, ethical, social, psychological, and academic.

Commit To Quit
Inconclusive Evidence

A multi-session program designed to promote smoking cessation among sedentary women through cognitive-behavioral training and vigorous physical exercise.

Communities in Schools (CIS)
Inconclusive Evidence

A dropout prevention program that is continuously adapted to meet the unique needs of particular schools and aims to promote academic performance by providing a community of support for students.

Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
Inconclusive Evidence

A community-based organizing effort that aims to: 1) decrease the number of peers, merchants, and other adults providing alcohol to underage youth; 2) decrease the use of alcohol by adolescents; 3) activate communities to change local public policies and practices of major community institutions to decrease alcohol use; 4) communicate a clear social norm in the community that underage drinking is unacceptable; and 5) maintain and enforce institutional and public policies to reduce alcohol sales to youth.

Community and Law Enforcement Resources Together (ComALERT)
Inconclusive Evidence

A community-based program designed to reduce recidivism through a comprehensive transition-focused approach to reintegration and rehabilitation for recent parolees.

Community Mothers
Inconclusive Evidence

A parent-training program that utilizes experienced volunteer mothers in disadvantaged areas to provide support and encouragement to first-time parents.

Community Restitution Apprenticeship-Focused Training (CRAFT)
Inconclusive Evidence

A community-based program designed to provide vocational training and job opportunities in the home construction industry to delinquent young adults as a means to increase education and employment and reduce substance abuse, mental health problems, and criminal activity.

Computeen
Inconclusive Evidence

A computer curriculum that aims to promote a positive ethnic identity, understanding of educational options, the ability to cope with community violence, and social-problem skills among low-SES, minority adolescents by integrating practical technology skills with psychoeducation and psychosocial skills.

Computer-assisted Motivational Intervention (CAMI)
Inconclusive Evidence

A sexual risk behavior program that aims to reduce the prevalence and risk of unprotected sexual intercourse.

Connecting
Inconclusive Evidence

A low-cost, self-directed, self-paced family-based prevention program for foster families with youth placed in their care by state child welfare agencies.

Connections (Early Vocabulary Connections: First Words to Know and Decode)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based vocabulary program that aims to improve vocabulary knowledge and decoding skills among kindergarten English learners.

Cool Teens
Inconclusive Evidence

A computerized cognitive-behavioral program for adolescents that aims to reduce: 1) negative automatic thoughts; 2) anxiety symptoms; 2) the number of diagnosable anxiety disorders; and 4) the degree to which anxiety interferes with daily life.

COPE Healthy Lifestyles TEEN
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral and skill-building program designed to improve children’s body mass index (BMI), mental health, social skills, and academic outcomes.

Coping and Promoting Strength
Inconclusive Evidence

A family-based intervention designed to prevent the onset and severity of anxiety symptoms among children with anxious parents.

Coping and Support Training (CAST)
Inconclusive Evidence

A skills training program designed to increase personal and social assets while decreasing suicidal behaviors and related risk factors.

Coping Cat ‘Dutch Adaptation’
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to reduce anxiety in children.

Coping Cat Program for Anxiety and Autism
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to reduce anxiety among children and young adolescents who have been diagnosed with anxiety disorders.

Coping with Work and Family Stress
Inconclusive Evidence

A skills training program that aims to teach participants adaptive coping strategies for managing work and family stress.

Corrective Reading
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program that aims to improve the decoding and comprehension skills of struggling readers of all ages through direct instruction on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment (CAPSLE)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program that aims to create a learning conducive climate within schools by reducing school violence and bullying, instilling in each student a feeling of worth and self-respect, and teaching children effective problem-solving and coping skills.

Creative Dance and Movement Program
Inconclusive Evidence

A dance program that seeks to improve the social competence of preschool children.

Crossover Youth Practice Model
Inconclusive Evidence

A juvenile justice program that aims to reduce recidivism among maltreated youth through earlier individualized treatment, family engagement, and improved communication and coordination with child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

Cuidate
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program that aims to reduce teen pregnancy and increase the prevalence of sexual health behaviors among Hispanic youth by changing attitudes, knowledge, skills, and intentions to engage in safe sexual behaviors.

Cure Violence/CeaseFire (Practice)
Inconclusive Evidence

This community-based intervention uses a public health approach to reduce gun violence and violent crime by changing norms surrounding violence in high risk individuals and neighborhoods.

Curiosity Corner
Inconclusive Evidence

A comprehensive preschool program designed to develop higher quality learning environments and increase language ability among 3- and 4-year-olds who are at risk of school failure due to poverty.

D.A.R.E. Plus
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based curriculum that aims to provide skills in handling violent situations and recognizing and resisting influences to use drugs by placing emphasis on peer influences, parental involvement, supervised after-school activities, and neighborhood community organizing. The program also focuses on character-building and becoming a citizen in our communities.

D.C. Superior Court Drug Intervention Programs
Inconclusive Evidence

A diversion program that uses two different court-based procedures to identify drug-involved offenders soon after arrest and encourage drug desistance through a combination of treatment, incentives, and sanctions.

DARE
Inconclusive Evidence

A drug use prevention program delivered to students by local police officers.

Date SMART
Inconclusive Evidence

A skill-based group intervention aimed at reducing dating violence and sexual risk behavior in adolescent girls with prior exposure to physical dating violence.

Developing Collaboration and Consultation Skills
Inconclusive Evidence

Professional development training for English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers that aims to increase the language development and literacy of English language learners.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for College Students (DBT)
Inconclusive Evidence

An outpatient program designed to reduce suicidality and depression and enhance global functioning among suicidal college students.

Dialogic Reading
Inconclusive Evidence

A skills training program that aims to improve pre-literacy skills among low-income preschoolers.

DISCOVER
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based, one-day cognitive-behavioral training workshop to improve adolescent mental health.

Dissonance-Based Intervention for Body Image Problems
Inconclusive Evidence

A set of multi-session group interventions based on the principles of cognitive dissonance that aim to promote a more positive body image and prevent eating disorders among diverse groups of women, men, athletes, and gays in high school and college.

Doing Anger Differently
Inconclusive Evidence

A group-based program that aims to reduce and prevent reactive aggression among adolescent males.

Domestic Violence Unit
Inconclusive Evidence

A transitional program that aims to reduce domestic violence through intensive investigation and victim assistance.

Dominique’s Handy Tricks
Inconclusive Evidence

School-based workshops designed to decrease symptoms of phobic fear and anxiety and defend against the development of anxiety disorders by promoting protective factors such as coping skills and perceived self-efficacy.

Contact

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
University of Colorado Boulder
Institute of Behavioral Science
UCB 483, Boulder, CO 80309

Email: blueprints@colorado.edu

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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is
currently funded by Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) and historically has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.