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 | ||
|---|---|---|
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 Personalized Drinking Feedback: Normative Emphasis |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based alcohol intervention designed to decrease problem drinking among college students through personalized normative feedback, which reduces the overestimated normative perceptions of peers’ drinking and, therefore, adjusts perceptions of personal drinking habits. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: With Motivational Interviewing |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based counseling program that aims to reduce heavy drinking among college students. |
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. |
Brief Strategic Family Therapy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family-focused intervention designed to improve youths’ behavioral problems by improving family interactions that are presumed to be directly related to the children’s symptoms. |
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. |
Bright Start |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce excessive weight gain among children of American Indian descent by increasing physical activity and healthy eating habits during kindergarten and first grade. |
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. |
Bucharest Early Intervention Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Buddy System |
Inconclusive Evidence | A behavior modification system that aims to reduce delinquency among adolescents 11-17 years of age with behavioral problems. |
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 Assets-Reducing Risks (BARR) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to help incoming freshmen make a successful transition to high school by increasing attendance, decreasing behavioral problems, and improving academic performance. |
Building Blocks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mathematics curriculum development program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge among preschool students who are at increased risk of later failure in school. |
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. |
Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment |
Inconclusive Evidence | An interim maintenance program that aims to improve compliance and reduce drug use among opiate-dependent individuals. |
Burn and Earn |
Insufficient Evidence | A recreational program that aims to maintain or decrease Body Mass Index (BMI) among first-year college students through the establishment of healthy exercise habits. |
California Smokers’ Helpline |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief, telephone-based smoking cessation intervention that aims to increase abstinence rates and quit attempts through telephone counseling designed to help smokers develop successful coping strategies. |
Canadian Breathalyser Law |
Inconclusive Evidence | Legislation designed to deter driving under the influence of alcohol and reduce fatalities resulting from alcohol-related automobile accidents. |
Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiment |
Insufficient Evidence | A restorative justice program designed to reduce recidivism among juvenile and adult offenders by offering an alternative sentence to traditional adjudication. |
Cannabis Online Personalized Feedback |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online program that aims to reduce marijuana use and its negative consequences by translating survey responses into online individual personalized feedback on marijuana use. |
CARE (school organization program) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school organization program designed to help schools define problems and set organizational goals. |
Care Management Intervention for American Indian/Alaska Native Patients |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to provide culturally sensitive care management to physically injured American Indian and Alaska Native trauma survivors. |
Care, Assess, Respond, Empower (CARE) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A brief school-based protocol designed to decrease suicidal behaviors and related risk factors among adolescents in high school through brief motivational counseling. |
Career Beginnings |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that seeks to prepare youth for college and increase their enrollment and attendance in college and to prepare non-college-bound youth for vocational schooling. |
Career-Themed Programs of Study (POS) |
Insufficient Evidence | Legislatively-mandated programs designed to prepare upcoming high school graduates for college and a career. |
CareerStart |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal instructional program that aims to increase academic achievement among early adolescents by increasing student engagement through career relevant instruction. |
Carescapes |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development training program that aims to improve the quality of home-based child-care and promote social competence and school readiness in children by training caregivers in responsiveness and monitoring skills. |
Caring School Community (formerly Child Development Project) |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive classroom program designed to strengthen students’ connectedness to school in order to increase motivation for academic achievement while reducing delinquency, drug use, and violence. The program also strives to improve the school environment, enhance prosocial behavior, and boost children’s commitment to prosocial goals and values. |
Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based sexual education program designed to reduce teenage pregnancy through the use of a comprehensive approach to foster youth development. |
CASASTART |
Inconclusive Evidence | A neighborhood-based strategy that aims to prevent drug use and delinquency among high-risk adolescents 11-13 years of age living in highly distressed neighborhoods. |
Catch Kids Club |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to teach children the skills to make health dietary and physical activity choices at school, in the community, and at home through Youth Specialist interactions. |
CATCH My Breath |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief, school-based program designed to prevent e-cigarette use initiation among middle school students by increasing social competence and refusal skills for prevention of tobacco use. |
Catch-Up Numeracy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mentoring program that aims to help struggling pupils improve their performance in mathematics. |
Caught in the Crossfire |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer-based violence prevention program designed to: a) prevent retaliatory violence in injured adolescents; b) reduce entry and reentry into the criminal justice system; c) reduce the total number of youth injured and killed by interpersonal violence; d) promote alternatives to violence for youth; and e) provide positive peer role models. |
CeaseFire in South Carolina |
Insufficient Evidence | A crime prevention program that aims to reduce the prevalence of gun crime through targeted prosecution and increased public education. |
CEPIDEA |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to promote prosocial behavior among seventh graders through regular prosocial learning sessions and integration of prosocial material into classroom lessons. |
Challenge! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A manualized obesity prevention program that aims to reduce body mass and increase physical activity and healthy eating through individualized sessions and home and community activities. |
Challenging College Alcohol Abuse |
Insufficient Evidence | A social norms and environmental management program that aims to a) correct misperceptions, increase knowledge, and change attitudes about alcohol and drug use behaviors among undergraduate students; b) change policies and practices related to alcohol and drug use and abuse among campus fraternity and sorority chapters; c) change faculty, administration, parental, community, and policymaker perceptions to prevent perpetuation of alcohol and drug myths; and d) to increase restrictions on alcohol availability and monitor on- and off-campus distribution and consumption. |
Charlotte School Safety Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce crime in the Nation’s schools by changing the attitudes and behaviors of students and encouraging them to act as agents of change with new skills and knowledge. |
Check and Connect (C&C) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention to improve attendance, reduce dropout, and promote school engagement among urban high school youth who are at risk for learning problems or have learning or emotional/behavioral disabilities. |
Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to utilize the police in ways that allow them to be crime prevention mechanisms rather than reactors to crime. |
Chicago Child-Parent Center (CPC) Preschool Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A center-based early intervention that aims to increase school achievement by providing educational and family support services to at-risk children. |
Chicago Parent Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group-based parent training program designed to promote positive parenting strategies and reduce problem behaviors among African American and Latino children two through four years of age attending day care centers that serve low-income families. |
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