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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Massachusetts Wraparound Zone Initiative (WAZ) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive initiative to help struggling schools improve student outcomes through both academic and nonacademic supports. Specific goals include improved English language arts and mathematics scores and attendance as well as reduced suspensions. |
MATCH (Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An integrative approach to treating children and adolescents who present either one or a combination of mental health problems relating to anxiety, depression, trauma or disruptive conduct. |
Math Recovery |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to to identify students who are struggling with mathematics and improve their mathematics skills through tutoring by trained, certified teachers. |
Maytiv (Doing Good) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase students’ life satisfaction, positive emotions, and positive peer relationships while decreasing their negative emotions through teacher-taught lessons on topics such as gratitude, kindness and compassion, mindfulness, and goal setting. |
Me & You |
Inconclusive Evidence | An in-person and online intervention to reduce dating violence among early adolescents. |
Media Aware |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online program meant to reduce sexual risk behaviors and improve attitudes and intentions about sex. |
Media Heroes (Medienhelden) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based prevention program that aims to reduce and prevent cyber bullying in adolescents. |
Media Smart |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce eating disorders and risk factors for eating problems and weight gain among adolescents. |
Mellow Babies |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group intervention that aims to reduce maternal depression and improve mother-infant interactions. |
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to convert positive thoughts and images among children into effective action to improve academic performance. |
Mental Health Court: Butte County (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety, to better support mentally ill offenders with mental health services and other provisions to increase their quality of life, and to reduce recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Mental Health Court: San Francisco (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to increase public safety by reducing the likelihood of re-arrest and time in jail among offenders with mental illness. |
Mental Health Court: Southeast US (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | The program aims to reduce recidivism among mentally ill offenders and in doing so reduce court loads, local jail and prison overcrowding while insuring public safety. |
Mental Health Courts: Multisite Study (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to move mentally ill offenders from an overcrowded jail system into the mental health system without compromising public safety and to prevent recidivism by ensuring access to mental health services. |
Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention program that aims to prevent opioid-addicted patients from continued use of harmful opioids by taking methadone to alleviate withdrawal symptoms, reduce opiate cravings, and bring about a biochemical balance in the body. |
Michigan Model for Health |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention curriculum designed to decrease students’ use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. |
Milwaukee Safe Street Prisoner Release Initiative |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multifaceted approach to adult crime that combines needs-based employment and wraparound services for prisoners. |
Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mindfulness program to improve executive functioning in children. |
Mindfulness + Reflection |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase executive function in preschoolers through training in mindfulness and reflection delivered by teachers in the regular classroom setting. |
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that uses mindfulness exercises to reduce symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression. |
Mindfulness-Enhanced Strengthening Families 10-14 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group-based program for parents and children that aims to improve parenting and parent-child relationship quality through mindfulness activities. |
Minding the Baby (MTB) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that provides an integrated model of care for first-time young mothers and their families in bridging primary care and mental health approaches to enhancing parenting and the mother-infant relationship. |
MindLight |
Inconclusive Evidence | A video game-based intervention designed to help children regulate and reduce anxiety problems. |
MindOut |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based social and emotional learning program to improve social and emotional well-being in adolescents. |
MINISTOP |
Inconclusive Evidence | An obesity prevention program for preschool-aged children implemented through a mobile phone app for parents. |
Minnesota Reading Corps |
Inconclusive Evidence | A statewide program that seeks to ensure that students with reading problems meet reading proficiency targets by the end of the third grade and become successful readers. |
Minnesota Transitional Sex Offender Treatment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison-based cognitive-behavioral training program designed to prevent recidivism among sexual offenders through therapy, support groups, and psychoeducational training. |
Mobile Coach Alcohol |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mobile-based program that aims to reduce and prevent adolescent binge-drinking by teaching strategies to resist alcohol, as well as providing information on outpatient alcohol counseling. |
Montessori Preschool Education |
Inconclusive Evidence | A pre-school education aimed at social and cognitive development of children. |
Montreal Longitudinal and Experimental Study (MLES) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program designed for boys between the ages of 7 and 9 years that aims to reduce disruptive, antisocial and delinquent behaviors in the short-term and substance use behaviors in the long-term. |
MoodGYM (The YouthMood Project) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An internet-based program that aims to prevent and reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents. |
More Fun With Sisters and Brothers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to help siblings 4-8 years of age strengthen their relationship by developing emotional competencies and prosocial behaviors. It also aims to reduce the amount of parental regulation required. |
Mother-Infant Transaction Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to help parents of preterm infants establish stronger emotional attachments with their infants and thereby improve behavioral outcomes among infants later in life. |
Motivation in Mathematics |
Inconclusive Evidence | Two school-based, short interventions designed to improve students’ achievement in mathematics. |
Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MET/CBT-5) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive behavioral therapy program that seeks to reduce the use of alcohol among adolescents. |
Motivational Interviewing for Physically Aggressive Dating Couples |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intervention designed to resolve physical and psychological aggression in college-aging dating couples by facilitating behavior change. |
Motivational Interviewing to improve Academic Performance |
Inconclusive Evidence | A one-session intervention that aims to improve academic performance in middle school children. |
Moving to Opportunity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A residential mobility program that relocates poor families living in the poorest neighborhoods of the five largest cities in the U.S. in order to reduce poverty and improve positive life outcomes among participants. Specifically, it seeks to increase employment and reduce violent and criminal offending and victimization. |
Multicomponent Literacy Instruction in Social Studies |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to enhance vocabulary knowledge and comprehension among middle school students, with special attention to English language learners. |
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to ameliorate adolescent drug use and associated behavioral problems. |
Multisystemic Therapy – Health Care (MST-HC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | Multisystemic Therapy – Health Care (MST-HC) is an adaptation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), a home- and community-based family therapy program for treating severe behavior problems in youth. The MST-HC adaptation targets severe problems with illness management in adolescents with various chronic medical conditions such as asthma, obesity, and Type 1 diabetes. |
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A therapeutic intervention designed to help abusive and neglectful parents develop appropriate parental control techniques and to improve parent-child interactions. |
Multisystemic Therapy with Psychiatric Supports (MST-Psychiatric) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive family-centered home-based treatment designed to improve mental health symptoms, suicidal behaviors, and family relations among youth presenting psychiatric emergencies. An additional goal of this program is to provide an alternative to or reductions in hospitalization or other out-of-home placements stays, thus reducing the number of days out of school. |
My Baby and Me |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based program aiming at developing mothers’ responsive behaviors with their children across the infant and toddler developmental periods. |
Naltrexone Treatment for Opioid Abuse |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program for criminal offenders with a history of opioid dependence designed to prevent relapse by providing injections of an extended-release formulation of naltrexone, a drug that blocks the euphoric effects of opioids. |
National Guard Youth Challenge Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 3-stage program designed to provide high-risk youth with experiences, settings, and relationships that promote completion of education, successful employment, and positive behavior during the transition to adulthood. |
NCRECE Professional Development for Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development program for pre-school teachers that aims to improve the quality of teacher-child interactions and thereby to reduce student absenteeism. |
New Hope |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive set of integrated program services designed to address longstanding problems associated with the low-wage labor market, such as employment and economic self-sufficiency. |
New York City P-TECH 9-14 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A high school-based program that provides students opportunities and skills to engage in dual enrollment and in internships to increase high school graduation rates, postsecondary education enrollment, degree attainment, and employment. |
New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that provides children of low-income families in the New York City attending public elementary schools with scholarships to attend private schools. |
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