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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:

1445 Programs
Program Rating Brief Description
Protecting You/Protecting Me (PY/PM)
Insufficient Evidence

A five-year, classroom-based alcohol-use prevention curriculum that aims to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in youth.

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.

Promoting prosocial and emotional skills to counteract externalizing problems in adolescents
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to promote prosocial behavior in early adolescence.

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 Academic Retention for Tribal Youth (PARITY) Program
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce dropout rates and bolster resiliency in adolescents.

Promise Academy
Not Dissemination Ready

A K-8 charter school that intends to improve student achievement through a program of academic rigor, student support, and non-academic services.

Prolonged Exposure Therapy
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral treatment program for individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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.

Project WIN
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that teaches children “transforming power” and “integrative negotiation strategies.”

Project Venture
Insufficient Evidence

A youth development program designed to reduce alcohol and drug use among high-risk Native American youth in grades 6 to 9.

Project Trust
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed to reduce factors that contribute to violence among students, specifically, divisive student cliques that depend on and foster experiences of difference, mistrust, and exclusion.

Project Toward No Tobacco Use (TNT)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program designed to prevent and reduce tobacco use among youth.

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 Sync
Insufficient Evidence

A brief, hospital-based, cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to reduce violent victimization and antisocial, aggressive behavior among youth living in neighborhoods with elevated community violence rates.

Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students)
Insufficient Evidence

A substance use prevention program designed to delay or reduce alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drug use among at-risk high school students.

Project Success – Irvine, CA
Insufficient Evidence

A substance abuse prevention program designed to prevent or reduce alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among at-risk adolescents and to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors associated with adolescent substance use.

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 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 SEEK
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed for young children of prison inmates to reduce the probability that these children will participate in delinquent and criminal behavior.

Project READY (adolescent substance use)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based drug prevention program that aims to reduce substance use in adolescents through motivational interviewing-based treatment that encourages participants’ motivation to change behaviors.

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 PEACE
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program that aims to reduce dating violence among college-aged individuals.

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 Northland
Not Dissemination Ready

A multi-level program designed to reduce teen alcohol use through classroom curricula, peer leadership, youth-driven extra-curricular activities, parent involvement programs, and community activism.

Project Naja
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed for African American adolescents to prevent or delay drug use, increase drug-refusal skills, and decrease early risky sexual activity and pregnancy by increasing resiliency factors and reducing risk factors.

Project Link
Insufficient Evidence

A hospital-based intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program designed to improve neonatal outcomes of pregnant substance abusers.

Project L.E.A.N.
Insufficient Evidence

A health education and physical activity program designed for Hispanic elementary students, with lessons on healthy eating, exercise, diabetes and self-esteem.

Project K Youth Development Program
Insufficient Evidence

A youth development program that aims to increase social and academic self-efficacy through structured group activities, workshops, and mentoring.

Project IMAGE
Inconclusive Evidence

A clinic-based cognitive-behavioral intervention to prevent STIs among at-risk ethnic minority adolescent women.

Project Hope
Inconclusive Evidence

A family intervention aimed at preventing depression and substance use among adolescent-aged children of parents with depression.

Project Greenlight
Insufficient Evidence

A prison-based reentry program designed to decrease recidivism.

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 EX
Inconclusive Evidence

A tobacco cession program designed to increase cessation rates among youth smokers aged 14 – 19.

Project Chrysalis
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to reduce the use of alcohol and other drugs among female adolescents with histories of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and other negative consequences of childhood sexual abuse.

Project CHOICE
Inconclusive Evidence

A substance use prevention program designed to reduce alcohol and marijuana use in young teens.

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 CARE
Inconclusive Evidence

Family education combined with a center-based educational daycare program.

Project BASIS
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to decrease misbehavior and increase appropriate behavior of middle-school students.

Project Back-on-Track
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-faceted after-school program designed to divert youth in the early stages of delinquency from committing future criminal offences, thereby helping them to avoid lifelong recidivism.

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 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 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 ACHIEVE
Insufficient Evidence

A school reform that aims to design and implement effective school and schooling processes that maximize the academic and social/emotional/behavioral progress and achievement of all students.

Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS)
Insufficient Evidence

An outpatient social skills program that aims to improve friendship quality and social skills among teens diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.

Program for School Guidance (PAE)
Insufficient Evidence

An afterschool remedial education program designed to improve academic achievement of underperforming students.

Problematic Sexual Behaviors Cognitive Behavior Therapy for School Age Children
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive behavioral therapy designed to reduce or eliminate incidents of problematic child sexual behavior.

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.

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 Solving For Life (PSFL)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to teach adolescents problem solving skills and ultimately prevent depression and related mental health problems.

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.

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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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is
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.