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 | ||
|---|---|---|
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. |
Assisted Outpatient Treatment |
Insufficient Evidence | An involuntary outpatient program designed to reduce the risk of violence and arrest among individuals with serious mental illnesses. |
At-Risk Youth Mentoring Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive mentoring program that aims to reduce problem behaviors among at-risk youth. |
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. |
B.U.I.L.D. (Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership) |
Insufficient Evidence | A gang prevention program consisting of four different components, including a gang prevention curriculum and after-school activities, as well as counseling in education and employment. |
Backdoor Electronic Monitoring |
Insufficient Evidence | Aims to reduce adult recidivism through an early prison release program with electronic monitoring. |
Be A Star Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to impact risk and factors that influence drug and alcohol use in adolescents. |
Be Active Eat Well (BAEW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce the body weight of children by supporting community promotion of healthy eating and physical activity. |
Be smart against cancer! |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote awareness of cancer-related risk factors and intentions to engage in protective behavior, with the ultimate goal of participants embracing healthy behaviors later in life. |
Be Under Your Own Influence: American Indian |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to delay substance use initiation among American Indian youth through media-based communications. |
Becoming Independent |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce the antecedents of health risk behavior (e.g., bullying, internalizing, and externalizing) through life skills training. |
Befriending Anti-Bullying Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based bullying prevention program that aims to develop behavioral awareness among children through a befriending model that supports their ability to offer support to the victims of bullying. |
Behavior Support Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide behavioral support and discipline program that aims to reduce school detentions. |
Behavioral Training for Preschool Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce disruptive, shy, and withdrawn behavior and promote social-emotional competence among preschoolers. |
Benzies & Batchies |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce sexual harassment among adolescents through the presentation of a play, teaching lessons, and encouraging discussion. |
BEST in CLASS |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based, teacher-training intervention designed to assist children in building social and behavioral competence skills and improving success in school. |
Bethesda Day Treatment Center: Alternative Education Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based selective prevention program that aims to promote self-esteem and academic performance among children in alternative education programs. |
Bethesda Day Treatment Center: Intensive Aftercare |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based indicated prevention program designed to reintegrate troubled or delinquent youth into their communities following completion of the day treatment program or release from institutional placement. |
Better Beginnings, Better Futures |
Insufficient Evidence | An initiative that funds community-based programs with three primary goals: 1) to prevent serious social, emotional, behavioral, physical, and cognitive problems in young children; 2) to promote the development of children in high risk neighborhoods; and 3) to improve the ability of socioeconomically disadvantaged families and communities to provide for their children. |
Better Choices |
Insufficient Evidence | A skills training program that aims to: 1) provide juvenile courts with a self-sustaining educational intervention for juvenile offenders; 2) teach participants decision-making and anger-management skills in a step-by-step format; and 3) reduce recidivism rates among juvenile offenders. |
Beyond Blame |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence prevention program that aims to improve knowledge and beliefs related to media use and reduce aggressive behavior among middle school students. |
Bicultural Competence Skills Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent tobacco, alcohol, and drug use among Native American adolescents by teaching social skills in a way that blends the adaptive values and roles of the Native and popular American cultures. |
Bookstart |
Insufficient Evidence | A book-gifting program that aims to establish the foundations for early literacy and later learning by encouraging parents to share books with their children. |
Bookstart Plus |
Insufficient Evidence | A book-gifting program that aims to promote reading by changing parental attitudes and encouraging parents to share and read books with their children. |
Border Binge-Drinking Reduction Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based intervention designed to reduce alcohol-related incidents and binge drinking among American teens in the San Diego-Tijuana region through public education and alliances between law enforcement and researchers. |
Boys and Girls Club Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based gang prevention and reduction program that aims to help at-risk youth stay out of the gang lifestyle and assist youth already involved in a gang reduce their gang-associated behaviors and values. |
Boys and Girls Club Project Learn (Educational Enhancement Program) |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that aims to improve academic performance among early adolescents living in publicly subsidized housing. |
Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based universal prevention program that aims to reduce behavioral problems among at-risk youth by increasing their exposure to and involvement in prosocial activities, norms, and values. |
Boys Town’s Common Sense Parenting |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to reduce future child abuse and neglect among parents with a history of child abuse. The program also aims to reduce developmental and behavioral problems in children who are abused and neglected. |
Brabant Smoking Prevention Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent smoking among early adolescents who are in the initial and experimental stages of tobacco use. |
BrainPower |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based attribution retraining program that aims to reduce aggression among at-risk children. |
Breaking the Cycle |
Insufficient Evidence | A diversion program that aims to reduce drug use and recidivism among substance-involved criminal offenders while simultaneously providing relief to the regular court system. |
Breaking the Silence New Mexico |
Insufficient Evidence | The Breaking the Silence New Mexico curriculum focuses on the education of middle and high school students about myths surrounding mental illness/suicide and the warning signs of mental illness/suicide. It also provides resources for students seeking support. The program goals include increasing student knowledge and attitudinal changes about mental illness and decreasing stigma of mental illness. |
Breakthrough to Literacy (BTL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A language and literacy program designed to improve the school readiness and literacy of children three through six years of age. Specifically, the program aims to improve children’s alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and word recognition. |
Bridge to Kindergarten plus Self-Regulation (B2K + RLPL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A kindergarten readiness summer program that aims to increase academic readiness skills among children who have not had previous preschool experiences. |
Brief Curriculum to Promote Condom and Health Care Use |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based intervention designed to promote positive attitudes toward health care, improve knowledge of STDs, and promote safe sexual behavior among Latino and Black men. |
Brief Parent Training (BPT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-based manualized intervention designed to promote effective and positive parenting skills to prevent the escalation of child conduct problems. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: Basic Profile |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce alcohol use, including peak blood alcohol concentration, the number of drinks consumed per week, heavy episodic drinking, and the number of alcohol and drug related problems among college-aged young adults. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: Computerized |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based personalized feedback intervention designed to decrease alcohol use among college students through brief reports on personal drinking habits that include normative education and information about the personal costs of excessive drinking. |
Brief Psychoeducational Parenting Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based brief psychoeducational program that aims to reduce negative parent-child interactions and thereby reduce aggression and other negative behavioral outcomes among children. |
Brief Sleep Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-based training program that aims to promote academic performance and the transition to school through behavioral strategies designed to improve sleep. |
Bright Beginnings |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum that aims to improve math, reading, and language skills in children three through five years of age by providing instruction that addresses the cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development of young children. |
Brooklyn Mediation |
Insufficient Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to reduce recidivism in interpersonal crime by mediating the dispute between the defendant and the complainant. |
Building a Lasting Love (BALL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief violence prevention program designed to reduce relationship violence among inner-city African American adolescent girls. |
Building Healthy Communities |
Insufficient Evidence | A schoolwide culture-change program aimed at preventing and decreasing obesity in elementary-school children. |
Building Resiliency and Vocational Excellence (BRAVE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to address economic disadvantages and prevent adolescent involvement with alcohol, drugs, and violence. |
Bulli & Pupe (Bullies and Dolls) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce violence and aggression among adolescents by teaching participants about the negative effects of bullying and enhancing their empathy and perspective taking skills. |
Bully Busters |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based psychoeducational prevention program designed to increase teacher knowledge of bullying intervention skills and self-efficacy and reduce classroom incidents of bullying by creating a safe learning environment. |
Bully Proofing Your School |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based bullying prevention program designed to reduce bullying behaviors and increase students’ sense of safety at school by promoting protective skills, clear and consistent rules, zero tolerance for bullying, and mobilization of the “caring majority” of students. |
Bullying Literature Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based bullying prevention program that aims to promote bystander intervention, adaptive sociocognitive processes, and positive social skills. |
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