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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
Brief Description | ||
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Project PACE (Participation and Cooperation in Education) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program designed to prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use by providing a series of intensive interventions to at-risk fourth grade students and their families. |
Project PEACE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce dating violence among college-aged individuals. |
Project PRIDE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based drug abuse prevention program intended to intervene at or before the early stages of drug and alcohol abuse. |
Project Spark |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based obesity prevention program that addresses risk factors for diabetes and obesity among late elementary and middle school youths. |
Project STAR |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention program that aims to promote the development and well-being of young children and their families by addressing risk factors associated with drug use in later adolescent and adult life through a class-room based curriculum, parent training, and home visits. |
Project TALC (Teens and Adults Learning to Communicate) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family training program for parents with AIDS and their children aimed at decreasing emotional distress and increasing emotional and logistical coping skills for dealing with the parents’ illness. |
Project Toward No Tobacco Use (TNT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent and reduce tobacco use among youth. |
Projeto Parceria (Partnership Project) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to help mothers with a history of interpersonal violence to cope with traumatic experiences while simultaneously teaching positive parenting skills. |
Promoting Acceleration of Comprehension and Content Through Text (PACT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A content knowledge instructional strategy designed to improve reading comprehension for students with reading difficulties. |
Promoting Prosocial Pupil Behaviour |
Inconclusive Evidence | A curriculum-based intervention that aims to reduce bullying and aggressive behaviors that occur both within and outside of the school setting by promoting prosocial classroom activities. |
Public Commitment and Obesity (The HEALTHY study) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent diabetes and to reduce obesity among middle school students by fostering healthy behaviors through public commitment. |
Pulling Levers – Drug Market Intervention (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A policing strategy to reduce crime among drug users by putting pressure on street drug dealers to leave targeted areas. |
Pulling Levers – Gang Violence (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A policing strategy to reduce gang-related gun violence by increasing the costs of violent behavior. |
PurposeFull People |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal social-emotional learning and character education program that aims to enhance the social and emotion regulation skills of students in elementary school. |
Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A youth development program designed to provide education and development activities to reduce high-risk behaviors, improve academic skills, increase high school completion and post-secondary attainment of high risk youth from economically disadvantaged families and poor neighborhoods. |
Quit the Shit |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based counseling program intended to reduce the quantity and frequency of marijuana use. |
Raising Early Achievements in Literacy (REAL) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based program intended to improve emerging literacy among preschool children through home visits, literacy resources, and instruction for parents. |
RAP Club |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based group intervention intended to help students deal with trauma and stress, regulate emotions, and make effective decisions. |
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) for High School Depression and Anxiety |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to increase students’ self-esteem and hope while decreasing dysfunctional thoughts and symptoms of anxiety and depression by teaching them how to recognize and challenge negative thoughts that lead to self-defeating cognitions and behaviors. |
Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transitional program intended to reduce recidivism and promote employment by providing job training, mentorship, and additional social support services to assist ex-offenders. |
REACH |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based intervention designed to improve reading accuracy and comprehension by providing targeted reading support to children with reading difficulties. |
Reach Out and Read |
Inconclusive Evidence | A health center-based intervention designed to increase parent-child reading and improve toddlers’ vocabulary through a literacy promoting intervention delivered by pediatric providers. |
REACH-Futures |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program intended to reduce infant mortality by improving parent efficacy and age appropriate expectations. |
READ 180 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 90-minute, daily, computer-supported intensive reading intervention curriculum aimed at raising reading fluency and comprehension of struggling readers. |
Read Naturally |
Inconclusive Evidence | A supplemental computer and media-based reading program that aims to improve reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension of elementary and middle school students. |
Read Well |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to improve students’ reading ability by combining systematic phonics instruction with practice in decodable text and ample discussion of vocabulary and concepts. |
ReadAbout |
Inconclusive Evidence | A supplemental reading program that aims to improve the comprehension of informational texts through teacher instruction, group work, and computer lessons. |
Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer (READS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An at-home summer reading program that aims to improve reading comprehension in elementary school-aged children by encouraging them to read both narrative and informational books. |
Reading for Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 10-week diversion program that reduces and prevents crime among nonviolent juvenile offenders by using literature and small mentoring groups to foster moral development. |
Reading Partners |
Inconclusive Evidence | A one-on-one tutoring program designed to improve reading performance and academic behavior of elementary school students with reading problems. |
READY talk |
Inconclusive Evidence | A training program for parents designed to promote communication and language development with their preschool children in preparing them for kindergarten. |
READY4K! |
Inconclusive Evidence | This text-messaging program for parents of preschoolers seeks to help them support their child’s literacy development. |
RECAP |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to reduce the level of children’s psychological problems and prevent the development of more serious problems through skills acquisition and parent-teacher engagement. |
Reconnecting Youth |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program intended to decrease drug involvement, increase school performance, and decrease depression and suicidal intentions among high school students with behavioral problems. |
Reduced Probation Caseload Size in an Evidence-Based Practice Setting |
Inconclusive Evidence | A probation program designed to reduce recidivism in high-risk cases by providing more hands-on monitoring and greater scrutiny of offenders’ rehabilitative efforts and treatment progress. |
Reducing TV to Prevent Obesity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program utilizing lessons and “homework” to challenge children and parents to limit the amount of time they spend watching television, video games, and movies, in an effort to promote healthier bodies in children. |
Repeat Offender Prevention Program (ROPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive probation supervision program intended to prevent first-time offenders who are at high-risk for chronic offending from committing more crime through participation through provision of integrated services to the offender and his/her family. |
Resilience Builder Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | Aims to build and improve social competence and emotional regulation skills among ethnic/racial minority youth in underserved communities using a manualized group therapy program. |
Resilience, Opportunity, Safety, Education, Strength (ROSES) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based, trauma-informed intervention program that aims to prevent recidivism among adolescent girls involved in the juvenile justice system. |
Resolve It, Solve It |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to teach students respect for individual differences, conflict resolution skills, and anti-bullying skills. |
Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to prevent depression in adolescents using cognitive behavioral and interpersonal therapy. |
Respect In Schools Everywhere (RISE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A peer-led intervention intended to prevent bullying, sexual harassment, and dating abuse by improving student attitudes and knowledge. |
Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to increase adolescents’ capacity and motivation to respond to developmental challenges in ways that facilitate social skill acquisition and acceptance of personal responsibility. |
Restorative Resolutions |
Inconclusive Evidence | A restorative justice program intended to support victims and divert adult offenders from incarceration through collaborative adjudication of crimes. |
Retired Mentors for New Teachers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher mentoring program designed to increase students’ achievement in mathematics and reading by enhancing new teachers’ performance. |
Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youths (SAFETY) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A socio-ecological cognitive behavioral therapy program aimed at reducing suicidal ideation and attempts in adolescents by strengthening family supports and building skills in both parents and youth that contribute to safer stress reactions. |
SafeCare |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program intended to reduce child maltreatment and challenging child behaviors by improving parenting practices and parent-child interactions. |
Safer Choices |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program designed to reduce unprotected sexual intercourse by increasing the proportion of students who choose not to have sexual intercourse or by increasing condom use among students who are sexually active. |
Safer Sex Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A clinic-based program that aims to reduce risky sexual behavior, STIs, and teenage pregnancy in sexually active adolescent girls through meetings with a female health educator. |
SaferSanerSchools™ Whole-School Change |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to make schools safer and improve relationships and school climate by responding to disruptive behavior and conflict with restorative practices. |