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 | ||
|---|---|---|
I Feel Better Now! A Structured Sensory Intervention Program for Traumatized Children, Adolescents, and Parents (SITCAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program for schools or juvenile corrections facilities to help traumatized youth recover from and appropriately deal with traumatizing experiences. The program aims to reduce negative outcomes that are directly and indirectly associated with the experience of trauma, such as academic failure, mental health issues, and problem behavior. |
Ignition Interlock |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that uses technology to prevent vehicle ignition when the driver is under the influence of alcohol. The goal is to prevent drunk driving among adults who have previously been convicted of an alcohol-related traffic violation. |
Ignition Interlock with Closer Monitoring |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that uses technology to prevent vehicle ignition when the driver is under the influence of alcohol coupled with additional communications strategies to enhance compliance. The goal is to prevent drunk driving among adults who have previously been convicted of an alcohol-related traffic violation. |
Imara |
Insufficient Evidence | A program for adolescent African American girls in juvenile detention that seeks to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections, promote HIV-prevention behaviors, and improve psychosocial outcomes. |
Impact of Drinking Age Law |
Insufficient Evidence | A policy to increase the legal age for purchasing alcohol from 18 to 21 in order to reduce youths’ alcohol use and impaired driving behaviors. |
Improved Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives |
Insufficient Evidence | A pregnancy prevention program that aims to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies by teaching providers to integrate intrauterine devices and implants into routine contraceptive care. |
In Your Care Pregnancy Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program to reduce teen pregnancy by helping teens make better informed decisions about sexual behavior based on a realistic understanding of the life-changing consequences of unprotected sex. |
In-Home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A home visitation program to reduce the symptoms of depression in low-income mothers. |
Incredible Years – Parents and Babies |
Insufficient Evidence | An 8-week parent training program that encourages positive and confident interactions with infants in order to foster parent-child attachment and support early childhood development. The program ultimately aims to reduce behavioral and emotional problems in children. |
Incredible Years – Toddler Parenting Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A 12-session parenting program for parents of children aged 1-2 years that teaches parents how to foster home environments that support early childhood social, emotional, and cognitive development. |
InnerChange Freedom Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | A faith-based mentoring and therapeutic program designed to reduce recidivism among adult offenders during their transition from prison back to the community. |
Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based pedagogical intervention designed to improve instruction for all students, particularly emergent bilinguals in the United States (or English language learners). |
Integrated Domestic Abuse Program (IDAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A corrections-based program for male offenders with a history of intimate partner abuse. The program aims to reduce reoffense by helping them take responsibility for their actions and acknowledge gender inequalities over the course of 27 two-hour sessions. |
Integrated Health Care Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to integrate physical and mental health services for children and youth with complex medical conditions. The goal is to improve mental health outcomes including problem behavior and coping skills. |
Integrated Nutrition and Physical Activity Program (INPAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 28-lesson school-based program focused on teaching children the benefits of healthy eating and increased physical activity. The goal is to improve health outcomes by improving knowledge of, and attitudes towards, healthy behaviors. |
Integrated Theater Arts Lessons |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that incorporates theater and arts into academics to improve middle school students’ performance in the core curricular areas of language arts and mathematics. |
Integrating Mathematics and Literature |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom intervention aimed at increasing early mathematical skills for preschool-age children with a disability. |
Intensified Alcohol Law Enforcement |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to reduce adolescent weekly drinking and drunkenness by intensifying inspections on alcohol retailers and implementing a liquor license withdrawal policy. |
Intensive Supervision Program for Sex Offenders |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive probation program for sex offenders designed to decrease recidivism. |
International Child Development Program (ICDP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based parent training program to improve child management and parenting strategies. |
Internet-Delivered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (I-PCIT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 12-week, internet-delivered program for young children with emotional and behavioral problems and their parents or caregivers. The goal is to reduce behavioral and emotional difficulties by emphasizing improvement of the parent-child relationship, teaching effective parenting skills, and encouraging effective discipline. |
Intervention to Reduce Violence and Substance Use |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program focused on reducing violence and substance use among primarily Latino high school students. |
Investigations in Number, Data, and Space |
Insufficient Evidence | A kindergarten to fifth grade curriculum that uses student-centered instruction emphasizing metacognition, peer communication, and arriving at solutions in multiple ways. The goal is to improve student math achievement. |
It’s My Turn Now! (En nu ik) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program providing treatment sessions for children exposed to interparental violence while providing concurrent training for parents. The program aims to improve parenting, enhance parents’ emotional adustment, and improve the child’s mental health outcomes. |
It’s Your Move! |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to reduce unhealthy weight gain and obesity among adolescents through comprehensive school- and community-based systems changes aimed at facilitating healthier lifestyles. |
Jersey City Problem-Oriented Policing |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that uses cooperation between public housing authorities and police departments to reduce serious crime. |
Job Placement Assistance to Reduce Recidivism (Practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | A transitional community-based program to reduce crime and recidivism among individuals recently released from prison by providing them with streamlined access to entry-level employment. |
Join the Healthy Boat |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program for primary school children designed to decrease obesity. |
Journey of Hope |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based manualized intervention that aims to support children in normalizing emotions associated with a traumatic event while developing positive coping strategies. |
JOVEN – Together Against Dating Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A three-month school-based program that aims to reduce dating violence among Hispanic adolescents. |
Judicially Mandated College Students |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to reduce alcohol consumption among college students who have previously engaged in high-risk drinking. |
Juvenile Court: Sex Crimes |
Insufficient Evidence | A 12-24 month community-based supervision program that aims to reduce felony recidivism among juveniles who have committed sexual offenses. The program includes community outreach, education, and mental health components. |
Kansas City Gun Experiment |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to reduce gun-related crime by removing guns from the streets through the implementation of targeted and proactive police patrols. |
Keep a Clear Mind (KACM) |
Insufficient Evidence | A take-home drug education program for upper elementary school students (9 to 11 years old) and their parents. The program is based on a social skills training model and is designed to enhance communication between parents and children and help children develop specific skills to refuse and avoid the use of “gateway” drugs. |
Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported (KEEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to reduce behavioral problems among foster children and their siblings by providing parents with caregiver support and training in behavioral management. |
Kentucky Adolescent Tobacco Prevention Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum with skills training that is designed to prevent tobacco use among high-risk adolescents living in high tobacco production areas. |
Kentucky’s Family Resource Centers |
Insufficient Evidence | A program with school, community, and family components that aims to enhance the participation of families in the educational process and to strengthen their capacity to enable children’s readiness for learning. |
Kid and Adults Now — Defeat Obesity (KAN-DO) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program to improve the diet, physical activity, and weight of children ages 2-5 by helping their mothers to regulate their emotions, improve feeding practices, and model healthy behavior. |
Kids in Transition to School (KITS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to improve the school readiness of at-risk children aged four to six years old prior to and over the first few months of kindergarten. The program focuses on developing early literacy, social, and self-regulatory skills. |
Kids N Fitness |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program with a special emphasis on minority children and early adolescents that aims to increase physical activity and reduce obesity. |
Kids’ Club and The Moms’ Group: Community-Based Intervention for Intimate Partner Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to prevent children who have experienced or witnessed family violence from developing external and internal emotional and behavioral problems through group counseling. The program also includes training for mothers who have experienced intimate partner abuse. |
Kiel Obesity Prevention Study (KOPS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention focusing on diet and activity to reduce body fat and obesity in children. A secondary, family-based component offers families of overweight children in-home consultations to help them reduce body fat and maintain healthy lifestyles. |
KIPP Charter Schools – Elementary |
Insufficient Evidence | The charter schools, which may include both pre-K and elementary students, emphasize rigorous academics and character instruction, with the ultimate goal of preparing students to succeed in college and beyond. |
KnowConflict |
Insufficient Evidence | An online, interactive conflict resolution program designed to reduce teen violence. |
Kripalu Yoga in the Schools (KYIS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to improve adolescents’ emotional and mood regulation and to support their ability to avoid substance use through increased mind-body awareness. |
LA’s BEST |
Insufficient Evidence | A comprehensive, community-based intervention that seeks to foster a safe environment in which interpersonal skills and self-esteem can be developed in children. |
Lakota Circles of Hope |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce substance use, alcohol use, and smoking through a culturally-relevant curriculum centered on Lakota values. |
LEAD |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that seeks to reduce juvenile delinquency among African American youth. |
Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program that attempts: 1) motivate local youth to reject illegal drug activity, including possession, use and distribution, 2) provide alternative activities and opportunities for youths most at risk for hard-core drug abuse, 3) divert youth from the criminal justice system into programs that address underlying precursors of drug abuse and related criminal behaviors, and 4) facilitate community involvement and inter-agency collaboration. |
Leadership Education Through Athletic Development (LEAD) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve the cognitive, affective and physical self-regulation among elementary school students. |
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