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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Opening Doors Learning Communities |
Inconclusive Evidence | The program aims to improve the success of community college students entering their freshman year by creating learning communities that integrate students into the social and academic life of college. |
Operation Swordfish |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program designed to reduce residential burglary through police-led target-hardening of previously burgled homes. |
Parent Based Intervention for College Students |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-based alcohol prevention program designed to reduce alcohol use among incoming college students and sexual victimization as a result of heavy drinking by raising parental awareness of alcohol abuse and consequences among college students and increasing parental effort to address this issue with their teen. |
Parent Connectors |
Inconclusive Evidence | A telephone-based parent support program designed to increase the engagement of parents of children with emotional disturbances in the education and mental health services their child receives, which, in return, increase the engagement of children in mental health services and improve child school functioning. |
Parent Engagement Project (PEP) [Texting Parents] |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program designed to improve academic performance and attendance among secondary school students by keeping parents informed on their child’s school performance via text messages. |
Parent Panel |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief psycho-social intervention designed to train parents in how to communicate with their children about academics via a panel discussion session. |
Parent-Delivered Early Language Enrichment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-delivered academic service to enhance language skills among preschool-aged children. |
Parental Training for Lone Mothers Guided by Educators (PALME) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed for single mothers to reduce maternal depression, which helps to stabilize the mother-child relationship. |
Parenting Adolescents: A Creative Experience (PACE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to improve parents’ communication skills and relationships with adolescents in order to reduce adolescent risk factors implicated in youth suicide. |
Parenting Mindfully |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mindfulness program for stressed parents of adolescents that aims to increase parent-adolescent relationship quality and reduce adolescent problem behaviors. |
Parenting With Love and Limits (PLL) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reestablish parenting authority, improve parent-child interaction, and reduce behavior problems and criminal offending of youth. |
Parents as Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that supports positive child development by providing information and guidance to parents and by helping parents in being the first teachers of their children. |
Parents Plus Adolescents Program (PPAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reduce adolescent antisocial and problem behaviors by teaching parents positive parenting and discipline strategies. |
PASS Reading Enhancement Program (PREP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A remedial reading comprehension program for primary school-aged children who are experiencing difficulty with reading and spelling. |
Pathway Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program that aims to improve the reading and writing skills of English learners in middle school and high school, by training and supporting English teachers to provide students with explicit instruction and practice of the cognitive strategies required to understand, interpret, and write essays about complex text. |
Pathways for African American Success |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parenting and family communication program to avert risky sexual and substance use behaviors and prevent HIV among African American youth. |
PAX Good Behavior Game |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program that aims to reduce aggressive, disruptive behavior and other behavioral problems in children by creating a positive and effective learning environment. |
PBS KIDS Raising Readers Curriculum Supplement |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal media-enriched curriculum supplement that focuses on developing early literacy skills among children aged 2-8 years. |
PeaceBuilders |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention curriculum for grades K-5 that teaches students and staff interaction principles that build social competence skills and reduce aggression. |
Peer Group Connection (PGC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to ease the transition into high school by using older high school students to help freshmen learn skills necessary to academic success and, ultimately, prevent dropout during the critical first and second years of high school. |
Phonological Awareness plus Synthetic Phonics (Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing Program) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An academic service that aims to improve the reading outcomes of students who enter school with reduced phonological skill through increased instruction on phonological awareness and synthetic phonics. |
Physical Activity Leaders (PALs) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to reduce BMI and improve muscular fitness, physical activity, and dietary behavior of low-active adolescent boys from disadvantaged schools. |
Plan A |
Inconclusive Evidence | A single-session sexual health video intervention that aims to promote effective contraceptive use, dual methods of protection, and HIV/STI testing among Hispanic and Black adolescent females. |
Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to improve parental responsiveness to infants and children and improve child development. |
Playworks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to engage students in physical activity, foster social skills, improve students’ ability to focus on class work, decrease behavioral problems, and improve school climate by providing opportunities for organized play during recess and class time. |
Police Foot Patrol |
Inconclusive Evidence | A crime prevention program designed to reduce violence in violent-crime hot spots by increasing police presence. |
Positive Action Intensive Family Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that focuses on providing intrinsic motivation for developing and maintaining positive behavioral patterns. |
Positive Thoughts and Action Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A depression prevention program designed to address key factors that contribute to and perpetuate depressive symptoms during the early adolescent years. |
PowerTeaching Mathematics (formerly Student Teams-Achievement Divisions) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program that aims to help students achieve academic success by improving their understanding of mathematics concepts. |
PRALIMAP (Promotion de l’ALImentation et de l’Activite Physique) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce BMI and prevent overweight/obesity among students. |
Pre-K Mathematics |
Inconclusive Evidence | An academic service that aims to improve math curricula in public preschools to better prepare children for later math education. |
Preschool PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based enrichment intervention used to support the development of social-emotional competencies and language/emergent literacy skills among pre-K children and ultimately to reduce aggression in the school and home. |
Preventing Relational Aggression in Schools Everyday (PRAISE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to reduce relational and overt aggression in elementary school students. |
Prevention of Alcohol use in Students (PAS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based alcohol use program that aims to prevent adolescents from early-onset drinking through both student and parent components. |
Preventive Treatment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to prevent antisocial behavior of boys who display early problem behavior. |
Preventure/Personality Targeted Substance Misuse Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program that aims to reduce or delay drinking, alcohol abuse, drug use, and associated problems among at-risk youth. |
Prisoner Self-Service Kiosks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison-based program that aims to increase prisoners’ access to digital technology in order to reduce stress and ease their reintegration into society. |
Prize-Based Contingency Management for Cocaine Use |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prize-based incentive program used in outpatient treatment to reduce cocaine use among adult abusers in treatment. |
Problem Solving Skills Training (PSST) & Parent Management Training (PMT): Combined Treatment |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to reduce children’s antisocial behaviors and parents’ stress and dysfunction and improve family functioning. |
Problem-oriented Policing |
Inconclusive Evidence | A police crime prevention program that aims to reduce violence at high-risk areas by encouraging officers to use applied science solutions. |
Project Adult Identity Mentoring (AIM) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sexual education class designed to promote abstinence, delay initiation of sex, and decrease intention to engage in sex through goal setting and discussion of obstacles to achieving those goals. |
Project ALERT (Adolescent Learning Experiences in Resistance Training) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to prevent drug use among adolescents using a cognitive, social-influence approach. |
Project ASSERT |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to reduce or eliminate drug use among youth through a motivational interview delivered by a peer-educator. |
Project CARE |
Inconclusive Evidence | Family education combined with a center-based educational daycare program. |
Project Chill |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance-use prevention program that aims to prevent, delay, or reduce cannabis use in adolescents through a brief, 30-60-minute intervention delivered by therapists or computers. |
Project CHOICE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program designed to reduce alcohol and marijuana use in young teens. |
Project EX |
Inconclusive Evidence | A tobacco cession program designed to increase cessation rates among youth smokers aged 14 – 19. |
Project FLAVOR (Fun Learning about Vitality, Origins, and Respect) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A smoking prevention program designed to prevent youth from smoking by addressing psychosocial risk factors for smoking with multiculturally relevant activities and lessons. |
Project Hope |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family intervention aimed at preventing depression and substance use among adolescent-aged children of parents with depression. |
Project IMAGE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A clinic-based cognitive-behavioral intervention to prevent STIs among at-risk ethnic minority adolescent women. |
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