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:
1460 Programs
| Brief Description | ||
|---|---|---|
Bridges to High School Program/Projecto Puentes a la Secundaria |
Under Review | A family-focused program for adolescents that builds youth and family competencies to improve emotional well-being and academics and reduce substance use following the transition to middle school. This is a culturally grounded intervention specifically designed to be used with families of Mexican descent (both U.S.-born and immigrant families). |
Building Resilience and Attachment in Vulnerable Adolescents (BRAVA) |
Under Review | A program designed to reduce the risk of suicide and related mental health problems by providing support to adolescents and their caregivers. |
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) |
Under Review | To reduce the recidivism of youths on probation by appointing volunteers to serve as mentors and advocates for the youths.
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Early Adolescent Coping Power |
Under Review | A program to reduce aggressive and disruptive behaviors and improve mental health outcomes by emphasizing emotional regulation, problem-solving skills, goal setting, and social competence. |
Family Spirit |
Under Review | A parent training program for young Native American mothers that is designed to increase parenting knowledge, involvement, and stimulation of the child in the home environment, which over time helps to improve children’s social, emotional, and behavioral development and the mother’s well-being. |
Fast Track Friendship Group Program |
Under Review | A school-based, small group, social skills training program designed to improve social, behavioral and interpersonal relationships for children who struggle to get along with peers (i.e., “peer-rejected children”). |
InsideTrack |
Under Review | A program for college students that aims to promote academic engagement and retention through individualized mentoring delivered by coaches via phone, email, text messaging or social media. |
INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament |
Under Review | A multi-component school-based program that aims to support attentional and behavioral self-regulation and improve academic outcomes in children. |
Making Proud Choices! |
Under Review | A school program that aims to reduce risky sexual behavior that leads to pregnancy and STIs. |
Moti-4 |
Under Review | A brief counseling program to reduce cannabis use among vulnerable youth and increase motivation to change their behavior. |
Project TRAC (Talking about Risk and Adolescent Choices) |
Under Review | A school-based, group intervention designed to improve emotion regulations skills and reduce risky sexual behavior in early adolescents with mental health symptoms. |
Reach & Rise® |
Under Review | A mentoring program aims to reduce delinquent and substance‑using behaviors and to strengthen school engagement and academic performance by supporting youth in adopting healthier thinking and behavior patterns. |
Real Talk |
Under Review | A program to reduce dating abuse perpetration among adolescents through a one-session, motivational interviewing-style brief intervention delivered in health care settings. |
Second Step Early Learning |
Under Review | A preschool-based school readiness curriculum developed to increase social emotional and executive functioning skills. |
Teen Intervene |
Under Review | A brief intervention designed to reduce alcohol and drug use in adolescents identified by the school as possibly using drugs or alcohol. |
The Optimum Performance Program in Sports (TOPPS) |
Under Review | A program to optimize athletes’ mental health and sport performance concurrently through a sport-specific, strength-based approach that reduces stigma and builds transferable life skills. |
Abecedarian Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | An educational assistance program that aims to provide high-risk children from severely disadvantaged families with early educational experiences to encourage success in school and improve well-being in young adulthood. |
Access to Algebra I |
Not Dissemination Ready | An online math program designed to 1) prepare students for more advanced mathematics courses in high school and college by allowing them to take Algebra I in grade 8 and 2) broaden access in schools, often in rural areas, that do not typically offer Algebra I in grade 8. |
Arrowhead Business Group |
Not Dissemination Ready | A strengths-based, multi-session entrepreneurship education program for adolescents from under-resourced communities that fosters adolescent connectedness to caring adults, healthy peers, and school and aims to improve behavioral health and foster economic development. This is a culturally grounded intervention that was co-created through a tribal-university partnership between the White Mountain Apache Tribe in northeastern Arizona and the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. |
Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A drug prevention and health promotion program that deters substance use among high school adolescents in school sponsored athletics by educating youth on the harms of anabolic steroids, alcohol, and other drug use and promoting sports nutrition and exercise. |
Care, Assess, Respond, Empower (CARE) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A brief school-based protocol designed to decrease suicidal behaviors and related risk factors among adolescents in high school through brief motivational counseling. |
Classroom Centered Intervention |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based intervention designed to reduce the proximal targets of poor achievement, concentration problems, aggression, and shy behaviors by enhancing teachers’ behavior management and instructional skills. |
Cognitive Behavioral Prevention Program for Depression |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based intervention designed to prevent depression among at-risk adolescents with non-clinical symptoms of depression through cognitive restructuring and problem-solving techniques. |
Comprehension Circuit Training (Electronic Delivery Format) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component reading intervention translated to electronic-tablet delivery format and designed to accelerate foundational reading skills and reading comprehension. |
Descubriendo la Lectura |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based tutoring program designed to improve the literacy skills of bilingual Hispanic first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write in bilingual classrooms. The program is the reconstruction of Reading Recovery in Spanish. |
eBody Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-session, online intervention designed to prevent the onset of eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating among young women with body image concerns. |
Families Talking Together |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program designed to prevent sexual risk behavior among Latino and African American young adults through a parent-based intervention. |
Fast Track |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component intervention designed to prevent antisocial behavior in at-risk children. |
FOCUS: Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unwanted Pregnancies among Young Women |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program designed to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies (UPs) in young, sexually active women. |
Full-Day Prekindergarten |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program of full-day Prekindergarten aimed at increasing school readiness. |
H&R Block College Financial Aid Application Assistance |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial aid application assistance program for lower-income teenagers and their families provided at H&R block offices. |
Healthy Weight |
Not Dissemination Ready | A one-time intervention program for adolescent females with body image concerns aimed at preventing eating disorders and obesity. |
Learning Accounts |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial-incentive program designed for high school students that provides an early guarantee of a grant worth up to $8,000 for post-secondary education, conditional on high school completion. |
Linking Information and Families Together (LIFT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program aimed to lower rates of adolescent substance use in middle school by providing parents with information about their child’s academic performance and behavior. |
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component program that aims to decrease antisocial behavior and increase their prosocial behavior in children by targeting the family, school, and peer domains. |
Literacy Express |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program that aims to improve preschool emergent literacy among both Spanish-speaking English language learners and English-speaking children, using teacher-led small groups and a designated curriculum. |
Making Pre-K Count + High 5s |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge for low-income kindergarten students. |
Midwestern Prevention Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A comprehensive community-based program designed to decrease the rates of onset and prevalence of drug use (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana) in young adolescents (aged 10-15) and to decrease drug use among parents and other residents of intervention communities. |
Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability |
Not Dissemination Ready | A community-based program that aims to prevent recidivism among sexual offenders through support provided by 4-6 community volunteers during the reentry period after prison. |
MyTeachingPartner-Secondary |
Not Dissemination Ready | A professional development program for secondary level teachers that focuses on motivating and enhancing teachers’ daily interactions with students to improve student academic performance. |
New Beginnings (for children of divorce) - Dual Component Version |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based intervention for divorced parents and their children to promote resilience in children after parental divorce. |
One Summer Plus (OSP) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A youth employment program designed to reduce adolescent crime by providing youth with summertime work and socio-emotional learning opportunities. |
Organizational Skills Training |
Not Dissemination Ready | A clinic-based program designed to ameliorate organization, time management, and planning difficulties in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and thereby improve behavior and academic functioning. |
Penn Resiliency Program |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to reduce depressive symptoms among middle-school students. |
Positive Family Support |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family-based, 3-tiered intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior and risk for substance abuse and depression and improve family management practices and communication skills, as well as adolescents’ self-regulation skills and prosocial behaviors. |
Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics Tutorial (PKMT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program targeting pre-K students scoring in the lowest quartile for mathematics to improve their performance in mathematics. |
Prime Time |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component youth development program designed to reduce pregnancy risk and aggression among high-risk adolescent girls. |
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. |
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. |
Resilience Triple P |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family counseling program intended to reduce childhood bullying and enhance emotional resilience through facilitative parenting training and social and emotional skills training for children. |
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