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 | ||
|---|---|---|
HORIZONS |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sexual risk reduction program that aims to diminish incident sexually transmitted disease (STD) and enhance STD/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) preventative behaviors and psychosocial mediators. |
Hot Spot Policing (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for crime reduction that focuses on a small number of high-activity crime places and aims to be proactive rather than reactive in crime reduction. |
House of Hope |
Inconclusive Evidence | An in-prison program therapy for domestic violence offenders to reduce reoffense and foster a supportive social climate. |
Houston Parent-Child Development Center |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program for economically disadvantaged children that trains cognitive and social skills to reduce academic disadvantages and improve mental health of participating families. |
I Hear What You’re Saying |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based program for mothers and their daughters. The focus is on enhancing mother-daughter relationships and appropriate family rules in order to prevent substance use among adolescent girls. |
Improving Writing Quality, Self-Regulated Strategy Development |
Inconclusive Evidence | A middle school program that can be used to teach most genres of writing, including narrative writing. The goal is to encourage pupils to take ownership of their work, thereby improving writing quality. |
In-Prison Visitation (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | This practice aims to reduce recidivism after release from prison by allowing incarcerated individuals to maintain strong relationships with family, friends, and community volunteers through regular visitation. |
Incredible Years – Child Prevention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program focused on classroom management and the fostering of social competence and emotional regulation among young children. The program aims to prevent conduct problems and improve school readiness among Head Start, kindergarten, and first grade students in schools drawing from high poverty, multiethnic areas. |
Indianapolis Restorative Justice Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A restorative justice program consisting of conferences where the offending youth, the victim, and their supporters come together with a facilitator to dialogue about the crime and agree on appropriate reparations. The primary purpose of the program is to reduce juvenile recidivism. A secondary goal is to ensure victim, offender, and offender-parent satisfaction with alternative restorative justice sanctions. |
Indicated Prevention for College Student Marijuana Use |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for college students that uses motivational enhancement and cognitive-behavioral techniques to enhance their intrinsic motivation to reduce levels of marijuana use. |
Individualized Motivational Plans |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral training program designed to reduce recidivism among men convicted of intimate partner violence using motivational interview techniques. |
Individualized Treatment Program for Adolescent Shoplifters |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for youth who have been convicted of shoplifting with the goal of increasing personal responsibility and reducing recidivism through completion of individualized treatment programs. |
Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program for low birth weight infants and their families to reduce developmental delays by enhancing cognitive, fine motor, language, social, and emotional skills. |
Inner Explorer |
Inconclusive Evidence | The school-based mindful awareness training program is designed to increase quarterly grade performance and positive classroom behavior among elementary school students. |
Instructor-Led Intervention for Obese Mexican American Youth |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive school-based nutrition and physical activity program to promote healthy weight among Mexican American children. |
Integrated Outpatient Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mental health and substance abuse program to decrease alcohol and marijuana use, as well as suicide ideation and attempts, through integrated cognitive-behavioral therapy. |
Intelligent Tutoring of the Structure Strategy (ITSS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based, intelligent tutoring system that aims to increase nonfiction reading comprehension by focusing on understanding text structure. |
Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program to reduce recidivism among high-risk juvenile parolees as they transition from incarceration to the community. |
Intensive Protective Supervision Project (North Carolina) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A one-year community supervision program for juvenile status offenders. The program aims to decrease the incidence of delinquent and status offenses by reducing negative behaviors while increasing positive behaviors. |
Intensive Supervision and Support Program (ISSP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multifaceted program for persistent young offenders that is delivered jointly by police, social services, and education professionals. The goal is to reduce crime attributable to those whose persistent anti-social behavior has led to multiple arrests, cautions, and prosecutions. |
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Excess Weight Gain |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 12-week program designed to prevent excess weight gain and disordered eating in adolescent girls by improving communication skills and interpersonal relationships. |
Interventions for Boys with Conduct Problems |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home- and classroom-based program to reduce the behavioral problems of boys labeled with conduct disorder. |
Israeli Work Release Rehabilitation Program (Adult Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program designed to reduce recidivism among low-risk offenders. |
It’s Your Game: Keep it Real (IYG) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based health education program designed to delay sexual behavior and promote healthy dating relationships among ethnic-minority middle school youths. |
Job Corps |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive residential program to increase employment and reduce crime among disadvantaged youth by providing them with educational programming, vocational training, mental health support, and related services. The program further aims to improve prospects for lifetime earnings and promote responsible citizenship. |
JOBSTART |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program designed to improve the educational attainment and occupational skills of high-school dropouts, enabling them to obtain better jobs and higher income. |
Just/Us |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program to reduce sexual risk behavior among adolescents and young adults by delivering sexual health education and support through social media. |
Keep Cool |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program to reduce disruptive behaviors in students by teaching them social cognitive skills such as problem solving, cognitive restructuring, and social engagement. |
keepin’ it REAL |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that prepares students to resist substance use in a manner most culturally relevant and familiar to them through the teaching of communication skills, problem-solving, and risk assessment. |
Kind Acts |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to enhance happiness, prosocial behavior, and peer acceptance in preadolescents by prompting them to perform acts of kindness each week. |
Kindness Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to enhance executive function, self-regulation, and prosocial behavior through a mindfulness-based training curriculum delivered by mindfulness instructors during the regular school day. The program consists of two 20-30 min lessons each week over a 12-week period. |
Leader In Me |
Inconclusive Evidence | A whole-school intervention designed to develop leadership skills among elementary school-aged students. |
Learning about Activity and Understanding Nutrition for Child Health (LAUNCH) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 6-month behavioral intervention designed to reduce obesity in indicated preschool children by providing healthy eating and activity strategies to parents. |
Learning Strategies Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A supplemental, targeted intervention intended to help students with reading, writing, and academic competence. |
Learning to BREATHE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation in adolescents and college students. |
Lessons in Character |
Inconclusive Evidence | A literature-based character education program implemented in schools that is designed to reinforce learning and promote prosocial behaviors among elementary-aged students. |
Letting Go and Staying Connected |
Inconclusive Evidence | An interactive parent-adolescent handbook intervention designed to provide parents with strategies to decrease first-year college student risk behaviors by increasing family protective factors. |
Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to help early learners achieve grade-level literacy competency. |
Linking Families and Teens |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family communication and sexual health education program that aims to reduce unplanned teen pregnancies among rural youth by promoting family connectedness and increasing youth self-efficacy, knowledge, and skills related to sexual health. |
Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to: 1) decrease violence and substance abuse by encouraging youth to develop social and communication skills; 2) improve relationships with peers, family, teachers, and community; 3) increase knowledge of drugs; 4) increase problem solving, goal-making, and reading skills; and 5) develop a better self-image. |
LISA (LARS&LISA) – CBT Depression Prevention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral training program designed to prevent the onset or increase in depressive symptoms among middle-school students. |
Living Insurance/Financial Aid for Ex-Offenders (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | Financial aids provided to recently released ex-offenders who have a high risk of recidivism for nonviolent property crimes as a way to remove the economic motivations behind recidivism. |
Louisiana Health Study |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based obesity prevention program designed to reduce overweight and obesity among elementary school students through environmental modification and the fostering of healthy behavior patterns. |
Love Notes |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to reduce aggression, risky sexual behavior, and dating violence by teaching adolescents about healthy sexuality, abuse in dating, and healthy relationships. |
MAC-Choice |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral training program designed to educate youth about the risks of unsafe sex, develop a decision-making process to motivate changes toward safer sex practices, and provide behavioral and social skills training to achieve safer sex goals. |
Machine Learning Risk Forecasts (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to reduce recidivism among parolees by helping to better assess the risks of a prospective parolee at parole hearings. |
Magnitude Card Game |
Inconclusive Evidence | A play-based intervention designed to narrow the early mathematics gap between low- and middle-income preschoolers. |
Make a Move |
Inconclusive Evidence | A childhood obesity prevention parent training program designed to positively influence the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of low-income preschool-aged children in terms of their physical activity and eating habits. |
Manville Moves (Cybercycling) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce classroom behavioral problems and ultimately improve learning in children. |
Martha’s True Stories (MTS) Buddies Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cross-age peer learning program designed to improve vocabulary and comprehension among kindergarten and elementary school students. |
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