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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Accelerate, Complete, Engage (ACE) |
Under Review | A post-secondary support program that aims to promote bachelor’s degree attainment in college students through comprehensive advisement and career development provided by dedicated advisors. |
Anti-Smoking Advertising |
Under Review | A systematic review of anti-smoking advertising methods and their varying effects on youth when offered in conjunction with other tobacco control strategies. |
Arrowhead Business Group |
Under Review | 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 sensitive 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. |
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 sensitive intervention specifically designed to be used with families of Mexican descent (both U.S.-born and immigrant families). |
eNew Beginnings Program |
Under Review | A web-based program for separated and divorced families that aims to improve parent-child relationship quality and decrease child mental health problems. |
Enhanced Language and Literacy Success (ELLS) |
Under Review | A preschool program that aims to foster the language and literacy development of 4-year-old children from low-income homes. |
enhancing Missouri’s Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies (eMINTS) |
Under Review | An intensive professional development program designed to help teachers develop student-centered, purposeful instruction fostered by technology utilization. |
Fathers for Change (F4C) |
Under Review | A fatherhood-focused intervention designed to reduce intimate partner violence and child maltreatment by improving emotion regulation and reflective functioning in fathers. |
Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens (FHF-T) |
Under Review | A mentoring program for 8th and 9th grade youth with child welfare involvement aimed to prevent and/or reduce delinquency and juvenile justice involvement. |
Group Treatment for Childhood Obesity |
Under Review | A family group training program that aims to promote healthy lifestyles and well-being in obese children. |
Hot Spot Policing (Practice) |
Under Review | A program for crime reduction that focuses on a small number of high-activity crime places and aims to be proactive rather than reactive in crime reduction. |
Impact of Drinking Age Law |
Under Review | 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. |
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. |
KIPP Charter Schools – Secondary |
Under Review | The charter secondary schools seek to dramatically improve student academic achievement by engaging students and parents in the educational process, expanding the time and effort students devote to their studies, and reinforcing students’ social competencies and positive behaviors. |
Letting Go and Staying Connected |
Under Review | An interactive parent-adolescent handbook intervention designed to provide parents with strategies to decrease first-year college student risk behaviors by increasing family protective factors. |
Linking Information and Families Together (LIFT) |
Under Review | 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. |
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program |
Under Review | A tobacco control program that aims at: 1) preventing young people from using tobacco products by educating them and reducing their access to tobacco products; 2) persuading and helping smokers to quit smoking; and 3) protecting non-smokers by reducing their exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). |
Nuestras Familias: Andando Entre Culturas (Our Families: Moving Between Cultures) |
Under Review | A parent training program for Spanish-speaking Hispanic or Latino families with middle school-aged youth residing in the United States in an emerging immigration context to help their adolescent children respond effectively to the risks of substance use and unsafe sexual behavior. |
Opening the World of Learning (OWL) Building Blocks PreKindergarten Program |
Under Review | A prekindergarten program designed to improve children’s mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills. |
Per Scholas |
Under Review | A training and internship program that prepares those with a high school diploma or GED for well-paying jobs in the IT industry. |
Smartphone App to Reduce Drinking |
Under Review | A program to reduce unhealthy alcohol use among college students through the use of a smartphone app. |
Strive Weekly |
Under Review | An online, synchronized, group-level, universal program to prevent anxiety and depression among college students. |
Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (TOPP) |
Under Review | A nurse-delivered intervention intended to reduce rapid repeat pregnancies and sexual risk behavior among low-income, pregnant, and postpartum adolescent females using motivational interviewing techniques with contraceptive access. |
Text Messaging to Reduce Absenteeism |
Under Review | A text-messaging program for parents that aims to reduce absenteeism among elementary school children. |
Three Generation Study (Home-Based Mentoring for Pregnant Teens) |
Under Review | A home-based intervention aimed at preventing adolescents who have children from having further children through counseling from women with similar experiences. |
Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II) |
Under Review | A social support program that aims to supplement routine care for suicidal adolescents following psychiatric hospitalization by providing psychoeducation to youth-nominated adult social support providers. |
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 that do not typically offer Algebra I in grade 8. |
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 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 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. |
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