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Recently Acquired Programs

April 8, 2016

Eisenhower Quantum Opportunities Program

Blueprints Rating: Good

A youth development program providing education, service, and development activities to improve academic skills and increase high school completion and post-secondary attainment of high-risk youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged families and impoverished neighborhoods.

March 4, 2016

Reading Recovery

Blueprints Rating: Good

A one-to-one tutoring intervention to reduce the number of first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems.

March 4, 2016

Child First

Blueprints Rating: Good

A two-generation home visitation program which works to heal and protect young children and their families from the devastating effects of chronic stress and trauma.

December 18, 2015

KiVa Antibullying Program

Blueprints Rating: Good

An antibullying program for grades 2-6, primarily implemented in Europe, which includes universal actions (20 hours of student lessons) to prevent the occurrence of bullying and indicated actions to intervene in individual bullying cases.

November 9, 2015

Head Start REDI

Blueprints Rating: Good

An enrichment intervention integrated into the existing framework of Head Start programs using the High/Scope or Creative Curriculum.

September 21, 2015

Teaching Kids to Cope

Blueprints Rating: Good

A 10-session group intervention designed to reduce depression and stress by enhancing the coping skills among high school adolescents.

August 16, 2015

Family Check-Up – Toddler

Blueprints Rating: Good

The toddler version of the Family Check-Up (FCU) aims to prevent conduct problems among at-risk toddlers by improving the quality of parenting and increasing and maintaining parents’ use of Positive Behavior Support.

April 30, 2015

Body Project

Blueprints Rating: Good

A four-session group intervention to prevent the onset of eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating among female high school and college students with body image concerns.

February 1, 2015

Career Academies

Blueprints Rating: Good

Provides small learning communities within high schools, combining academic and technical career curricula, and offering workplace opportunities through partnership with local employers to enhance school engagement and performance and provide students with the credentials and skills needed to make successful transitions to post-secondary education and, eventually, a career.

February 1, 2015

Blues Program

Blueprints Rating: Good

A six-week group intervention focused on reducing negative cognitions and increasing engagement in pleasant activities in an effort to prevent the onset and persistence of depression in at-risk high school youth with depressive symptoms.

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.