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March 10, 2020

Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND)

A classroom-based drug prevention program designed for at-risk youth that aims to prevent teen drinking, smoking, marijuana, and other hard drug use. Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) is a drug prevention program for high school youth who are at risk for drug use and violence-related behavior. The current version of the Project TND curriculum… Read More

March 10, 2020

Learning Together

A whole-school program that aims to improve the school environment to reduce bullying and aggression and promote student health and wellbeing. Learning Together is a school-based intervention grounded in schoolwide policies and systems, restorative practices, and social and emotional education with adolescents to reduce bullying and aggression and promote various dimensions of health and wellbeing…. Read More

December 11, 2019

Overcome Social Anxiety

The Overcome Social Anxiety program aims to help college students improve their social anxiety through cognitive behavioral therapy. The program is administered online and targets college students showing high levels of anxiety. Participants complete the program over a period of four to six months and receive email reminders to complete the modules. The program includes… Read More

December 11, 2019

Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS)

Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS): A Harm Reduction Approach, is a preventive intervention for college students 18 to 24 years old. It targets students who drink alcohol heavily and have experienced or are at risk for alcohol-related problems such as poor class attendance, missed assignments, accidents, sexual assault, and violence. BASICS… Read More

November 1, 2019

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is an intervention for children (ages 2-12 years) and their parents or caregivers that focuses on decreasing externalized child behavior problems (e.g., defiance, aggression), increasing positive parent behaviors, and improving the quality of the parent-child relationship. It teaches parents traditional play-therapy skills to improve parent-child interactions and problem-solving skills to manage… Read More

November 1, 2019

Nurse-Family Partnership

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a home visitation program that provides first time mothers with guidance and support in developing effective childrearing practices with the goal of improving long-term outcomes for mother and child. The program begins in pregnancy, when NFP nurses initiate home visitations with pregnant women who are predisposed to infant health and developmental… Read More

August 14, 2019

Webinar: Navigating the upgraded Blueprints website

To promote public interest in experimentally proven interventions and make our efforts more accessible, we launched on May 21, 2019 an upgraded website in order to fulfill our mission of promoting interventions that work. This seven-minute webinar is designed to ease in the transition of helping individuals navigate our new site.

July 24, 2019

Treatment Foster Care Oregon

The Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) program was developed as an alternative to institutional, residential, and group care placement for adjudicated teenagers with histories of chronic and severe criminal behavior. The two main goals of TFCO are to create opportunities for youth to successfully live in a family setting and to simultaneously help parents (or… Read More

June 26, 2019

Promoting Health Among Teens! (Comprehensive)

The program is a 12-hour HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STI) and pregnancy-prevention intervention for African American teens that offers optional booster sessions and one-on-one meetings for up to two years following program completion. It aims to increase knowledge of HIV and STIs, strengthen behavioral beliefs supporting abstinence, strengthen behavioral beliefs supporting condom use, increase skills to… Read More

June 26, 2019

Parent Management Training (PMT)

Parent Management Training is a 14-week parent-training intervention that is designed to improve oppositional/defiant behaviors in children and adolescents. The program is delivered to parents and children in 12 consecutive weekly sessions lasting 75 minutes, with the 13th session occurring 2 weeks later. Parents learn to be more consistent and contingent in their behavior management… Read More

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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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