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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:

1446 Programs
Program Rating Brief Description
Foster Care Intervention for Girls
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to prevent internalizing and externalizing problems while increasing prosocial behaviors of girls in foster care who are transitioning to middle school.

Fostering Opportunities
Insufficient Evidence

A student engagement program designed to help secondary students who have experienced foster care be successful in school and ultimately earn a high school credential.

Frameworks Youth Suicide Prevention Project
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based project designed to increase community effectiveness in responding to youth suicidal events, including suicidal ideation, attempts and threats and completed suicides, by developing shared knowledge, language and understanding among all constituencies in a community.

Friend to Friend (F2F)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based group intervention program designed to promote problem-solving skills and prosocial strategies for dealing with peer conflicts among relationally aggressive girls enrolled in the third through fifth grades in urban, predominantly African American schools.

Friendly PEERsuasion
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to stop and prevent substance abuse among early adolescent girls through teaching program participants communication and leadership skills, stress management skills, coping strategies to deal with peer pressure to use illegal substances, and the harmful effects of using these substances.

Friendly Schools Friendly Families
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to reduce bullying in elementary and middle school through education for students, their families, and school staff.

FRIENDS Parent Program
Insufficient Evidence

A parent component of the FRIENDS for Life intervention program designed to lower child anxiety symptoms by addressing parent anxiety.

Fun FRIENDS
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to prevent anxiety and promote social and emotional strength in preschoolers.

Fun n healthy in Moreland!
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to reduce/prevent obesity among children.

Gang Intervention Treatment: Re-entry Development for Youth Initiative (GitRedy)
Insufficient Evidence

A community reintegration program using cognitive life skills training and individual counseling to help youth, specifically former gang members, reintegrate into their communities after confinement.

Gang Resistance is Paramount (GRIP)
Insufficient Evidence

An educational program for elementary and middle school students and their parents about the dangers of gang involvement through school and community-based programming. The program also provides counseling to students who show signs of gang involvement.

Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Program Training – QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer)
Insufficient Evidence

A training program for school staff to learn to recognize risk factors for and signs of suicidal ideation and to talk with students displaying warning signs.

George Washington University Drug Education Program
Insufficient Evidence

A drug curriculum for elementary and middle school students that aims to decrease use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco and influence students’ attitudes and intentions towards drug use.

Get ‘Em on Task
Insufficient Evidence

A classroom-based intervention program aimed at using individualized rewards to decrease off-task behavior in elementary school students.

Get Real About Violence
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based curriculum aimed at changing students’ opinions about violence and violence-related behaviors and social norms surrounding violence using a variety of educational mediums and class discussions.

Getting Ready
Insufficient Evidence

An in-home program delivered by a Head Start educator to parents of 3-to-5-year-olds living in poverty, aimed at increasing their school readiness. The programs also aims to improve the quality of parent-child interactions.

Gipuzkoa Family Treatment Program
Insufficient Evidence

A training program for neglectful and abusive families designed to preserve children’s safety and ensure their basic needs are met, stop abusive and neglectful behaviors, and maintain the family unit. Aims to improve the quality of family interactions and relationships and make the family environment more conducive to appropriate parental behaviors by reducing impeding conditions such as social isolation and parental depression.

Girl Power!
Insufficient Evidence

A substance abuse prevention program for adolescent girls that uses science-based practices and also aims to increase school bonding and achievement through school-based activities and active partnerships with schools.

Girls Growing in Wellness and Balance: Yoga and Life Skills to Empower
Insufficient Evidence

An eating disorder prevention program for preadolscent girls that aims to reduce risk and increase protective factors such as self-care through small group sessions delivered by interventionists in a classroom or after-school setting.

Girls in the Game (GIG)
Insufficient Evidence

An afterschool program for preadolsecent girls that aims to promote social-emotional development and reduce BMI and unhealthy behaviors through enhancing health literacy and empowering the girls to believe that they can make healthy choices as well as promoting self-control around health and life choices.

Girls on the Run
Insufficient Evidence

A developmental-focused youth sport program for elementary school girls that aims to improve self-esteem, body size satisfaction, commitment to physical activity, and levels of physical activity.

Girls’ Circle
Insufficient Evidence

A support group program for girls aged 9-18 that aims to foster self-awareness and self-esteem, maintain authentic connections with peers and adult women in the community, counter trends toward self-doubt, and allow for genuine self-expression through verbal sharing and creative activity.

Girls’ Group
Insufficient Evidence

An after-school program for fifth grade girls that aims to reduce eating disorder risk and media influence through small group sessions delivered by licensed practitioners and trained interventionists.

GO GIRLS
Insufficient Evidence

An after-school program for middle school girls that uses individualized content to educate girls 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.

Good-Touch/Bad-Touch
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program for preschool through sixth graders that aims to teach skills to children about preventing childhood abuse (especially sexual abuse), to reduce the trauma or negative impact of abuse in children’s lives, to empower educators in their efforts to help stop violence, and to build self-esteem about everyone’s right to be safe.

GPS Supervision
Insufficient Evidence

This is a pretrial electronic monitoring system to reduce recidivism and technical violations in defendants facing intimate partner violence charges.

Graduated Sanctions for Probation
Insufficient Evidence

A probation-enforcement policy that uses frequent drug-testing and graduated sanctions to discourage probation violations and reduce recidivism.

Great Body Shop
Insufficient Evidence

A health education school program for urban youth in preschool through sixth grade that aims to reduce substance abuse, violence, and anti-social behavior by fostering the development of skills to achieve a healthy and balanced lifestyle that emphasizes responsibility, reasoned decision-making, and promotes a strong self image.

Greek Bullying Prevention Program
Insufficient Evidence

A classroom-based program with a parent component that aims to reduce bullying and victimization and improve students’ attitudes toward school.

Green Dot – College Curriculum
Insufficient Evidence

A bystander intervention program for college campuses aimed at reducing dating and sexual violence by increasing bystander awareness and behavior.

Group Lifestyle Triple P
Insufficient Evidence

A childhood obesity program that teaches parents how to use positive parenting to promote healthy eating and physical activity in their families.

Group-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Abuse (GBT)
Insufficient Evidence

A group counseling program for adolescents that aims to reduce substance use and related behaviors such as criminal behavior.

Growing Interpersonal Relationships through Learning and Systemic Supports (GIRLSS)
Insufficient Evidence

A group counseling program for adolescent girls that aims to reduce relational aggression.

Gun Court (Jefferson County, AL)
Insufficient Evidence

A boot camp program with parental education and substance abuse components for youth who have committed gun offenses that did not result in physical injury.

Guy2Guy
Insufficient Evidence

A text messaging-based HIV prevention program designed for adolescent gay and bisexual men.

H-Hope (Hospital to Home: Optimizing the Infant’s Environment)
Insufficient Evidence

A program for infants and their mothers that teaches developmental skills to infants and parenting skills to mothers.

Healing Species
Insufficient Evidence

A program through which children interact with rescue shelter dogs to learn empathy and other social skills.

Health Education and Relationship Training (HEART)
Insufficient Evidence

An interactive, web-based sexual health program designed to develop sexual assertiveness skills and enhance sexual decision-making in adolescent girls.

Health in Motion
Insufficient Evidence

A computer-based program for high school students aimed at increasing physical activity and improving diet.

Health Promoting Schools (HPS) Intervention
Insufficient Evidence

A community-based intervention aimed at reducing the onset of smoking for young adolescents at-risk for smoking.

HealthCorps
Insufficient Evidence

A program for high school students aimed at improving students’ health knowledge and behavior and reducing obesity.

Healthier Options for Public Schoolchildren (HOPS)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program for elementary school students aimed at improving health and academic achievement.

HealthTeacher
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program for kindergartners through high school seniors aimed at teaching sexual health and reducing the early onset of sexual activity.

Healthy Families Alaska (HFAK)
Insufficient Evidence

A home visit program for Alaskan families aimed at preventing child maltreatment and improving children’s psychosocial outcomes.

Healthy Families America – Rural Program
Insufficient Evidence

A home visit program for rural families aimed at preventing child maltreatment and improving children’s psychosocial outcomes.

Healthy Families Oregon
Insufficient Evidence

A home visitation program designed to prevent child maltreatment, support family stability, and promote healthy child development.

Healthy Futures (Nu-CULTURE)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program for adolescents aimed at delaying sexual initiation by developing adolescents’ decision-making skills and promoting protective healthy relationships.

Healthy Minds at Work
Insufficient Evidence

A supplemental enrollment training program for low-income adolescents and young adults aimed at improving mental health.

Healthy Opportunities for Physical Activity and Nutrition (HOPN)
Insufficient Evidence

A community and after-school program for children aimed at reducing obesity through physical activity and healthful eating.

Healthy Start (physical activity)
Insufficient Evidence

A physical activity program for preschoolers and young children at risk for being overweight or obese later in life.

Contact

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
University of Colorado Boulder
Institute of Behavioral Science
UCB 483, Boulder, CO 80309

Email: blueprints@colorado.edu

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currently funded by Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) and historically has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.