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:
1247 Programs
| Brief Description | ||
|---|---|---|
Frameworks Youth Suicide Prevention Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based project designed to increase community effectiveness in responding to youth suicidal events, including suicidal ideation, attempts and threats and completed suicides, by developing shared knowledge, language and understanding among all constituencies in a community. |
Friend to Friend (F2F) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based group intervention program designed to promote problem-solving skills and prosocial strategies for dealing with peer conflicts among relationally aggressive girls enrolled in the third through fifth grades in urban, predominantly African American schools. |
Friendly PEERsuasion |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to stop and prevent substance abuse among early adolescent girls through teaching program participants communication and leadership skills, stress management skills, coping strategies to deal with peer pressure to use illegal substances, and the harmful effects of using these substances. |
Friendly Schools Friendly Families |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that aims to reduce bullying in elementary and middle school through education for students, their families, and school staff. |
FRIENDS |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family-based, cognitive-behavioral training program that seeks to prevent and/or reduce child anxiety. |
FRIENDS for Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 10-week emotional resiliency program that aims to reduce adolescent anxiety/depression and improve school adjustment during the transition from primary to secondary school. |
FRIENDS Parent Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent component of the FRIENDS for Life intervention program designed to lower child anxiety symptoms by addressing parent anxiety. |
Fun FRIENDS |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent anxiety and promote social and emotional strength in preschoolers. |
Fun n healthy in Moreland! |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to reduce/prevent obesity among children. |
Functional Family Therapy-Child Welfare (FFT-CW) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A tailored family therapy program that aims to reduce child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. A tailored family therapy program that aims to reduce child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. |
Future Foundations Summer School Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to reduce summer learning loss and improve academic attainment. |
Gang Intervention Treatment: Re-entry Development for Youth Initiative (GitRedy) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community reintegration program using cognitive life skills training and individual counseling to help youth, specifically former gang members, reintegrate into their communities after confinement. |
Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (GREAT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A curriculum implemented by law enforcement officers in schools that teaches conflict resolution skills, cultural sensitivity, and the negative aspects of gang life to middle school students to enable them to resist peer pressure to join gangs. |
Gang Resistance is Paramount (GRIP) |
Insufficient Evidence | An educational program for elementary and middle school students and their parents about the dangers of gang involvement through school and community-based programming. The program also provides counseling to students who show signs of gang involvement. |
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | Support for a variety of suicide prevention programs that aims to decrease incidence of suicide attempts and suicide mortality. |
Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Program Training - QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) |
Insufficient Evidence | A training program for school staff to learn to recognize risk factors for and signs of suicidal ideation and to talk with students displaying warning signs. |
George Washington University Drug Education Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A drug curriculum for elementary and middle school students that aims to decrease use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco and influence students’ attitudes and intentions towards drug use. |
Get 'Em on Task |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based intervention program aimed at using individualized rewards to decrease off-task behavior in elementary school students. |
Get Real |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sexual education program for middle schoolers and their parents that aims to delay sexual debut and promote abstinence, and also provides information about contraception methods. |
Get Real About Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum aimed at changing students’ opinions about violence and violence-related behaviors and social norms surrounding violence using a variety of educational mediums and class discussions. |
Getting Ready |
Insufficient Evidence | An in-home program delivered by a Head Start educator to parents of 3-to-5-year-olds living in poverty, aimed at increasing their school readiness. The programs also aims to improve the quality of parent-child interactions. |
Gipuzkoa Family Treatment Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A training program for neglectful and abusive families designed to preserve children’s safety and ensure their basic needs are met, stop abusive and neglectful behaviors, and maintain the family unit. Aims to improve the quality of family interactions and relationships and make the family environment more conducive to appropriate parental behaviors by reducing impeding conditions such as social isolation and parental depression. |
Girl Power! |
Insufficient Evidence | A substance abuse prevention program for adolescent girls that uses science-based practices and also aims to increase school bonding and achievement through school-based activities and active partnerships with schools. |
Girls Circle |
Insufficient Evidence | A support group program for girls aged 9-18 that aims to foster self-awareness and self-esteem, maintain authentic connections with peers and adult women in the community, counter trends toward self-doubt, and allow for genuine self-expression through verbal sharing and creative activity. |
Girls Growing in Wellness and Balance: Yoga and Life Skills to Empower |
Insufficient Evidence | An eating disorder prevention program for preadolscent girls that aims to reduce risk and increase protective factors such as self-care through small group sessions delivered by interventionists in a classroom or after-school setting. |
Girls in the Game (GIG) |
Insufficient Evidence | An afterschool program for preadolsecent girls that aims to promote social-emotional development and reduce BMI and unhealthy behaviors through enhancing health literacy and empowering the girls to believe that they can make healthy choices as well as promoting self-control around health and life choices. |
Girls on the Run |
Insufficient Evidence | A developmental-focused youth sport program for elementary school girls that aims to improve self-esteem, body size satisfaction, commitment to physical activity, and levels of physical activity. |
Girls' Group |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program for fifth grade girls that aims to reduce eating disorder risk and media influence through small group sessions delivered by licensed practitioners and trained interventionists. |
GO GIRLS |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program for middle school girls that uses individualized content to educate girls about the risks of unsafe sex, develop a decision-making process to motivate changes toward safer sex practices, and provide behavioral and social skills training to achieve safer sex goals. |
Go Grrrls |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program for adolescent girls that aims to decrease delinquency, risky sexual behavior, and drug or alcohol use. |
Going Places |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase academic engagement and commitment to school; alter perceptions, attitudes and expectations about substance use and antisocial behavior; and reduce multiple problem behaviors such as smoking, alcohol use, aggression, and bullying. |
Good-Touch/Bad-Touch |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program for preschool through sixth graders that aims to teach skills to children about preventing childhood abuse (especially sexual abuse), to reduce the trauma or negative impact of abuse in children’s lives, to empower educators in their efforts to help stop violence, and to build self-esteem about everyone’s right to be safe. |
Graduated Sanctions for Probation |
Insufficient Evidence | A probation-enforcement policy that uses frequent drug-testing and graduated sanctions to discourage probation violations and reduce recidivism. |
Great Body Shop |
Insufficient Evidence | A health education school program for urban youth in preschool through sixth grade that aims to reduce substance abuse, violence, and anti-social behavior by fostering the development of skills to achieve a healthy and balanced lifestyle that emphasizes responsibility, reasoned decision-making, and promotes a strong self image. |
Greek Bullying Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based program with a parent component that aims to reduce bullying and victimization and improve students’ attitudes toward school. |
Green Dot - College Curriculum |
Insufficient Evidence | A bystander intervention program for college campuses aimed at reducing dating and sexual violence by increasing bystander awareness and behavior. |
Green Dot - High School Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-wide program developed for college campuses and adapted for high schools that engages potential bystanders to act to reduce sexual violence and related forms of interpersonal violence. |
Group Lifestyle Triple P |
Insufficient Evidence | A childhood obesity program that teaches parents how to use positive parenting to promote healthy eating and physical activity in their families. |
Group Motivational Enhancement Therapy (GMET) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group therapy program that aims to reduce alcohol drinking among college students. |
Group MultiLit (Making Up Lost Time in Literacy) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A small group reading program designed to improve the reading ability of struggling primary school-aged children. Through targeting phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, it aims to bring low-progress readers closer to the average reading level for their age. |
Group Treatment for Childhood Obesity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family group training program that aims to promote healthy lifestyles and well-being in obese children. |
Group Triple P (Level 4) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to improve positive parenting behaviors and the behavior of children with conduct problems by increasing parent engagement and teamwork. |
Group-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Abuse (GBT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group counseling program for adolescents that aims to reduce substance use and related behaviors such as criminal behavior. |
Growing Interpersonal Relationships through Learning and Systemic Supports (GIRLSS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group counseling program for adolescent girls that aims to reduce relational aggression. |
Guided Self-Change (GSC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based motivational and cognitive behavioral therapy intervention that aims to decrease drug and alcohol use, thereby decreasing interpersonal aggression, juvenile offending, and delinquency. |
Gun Court (Jefferson County, AL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A boot camp program with parental education and substance abuse components for youth who have committed gun offenses that did not result in physical injury. |
Guy2Guy |
Insufficient Evidence | A text messaging-based HIV prevention program designed for adolescent gay and bisexual men. |
H-Hope (Hospital to Home: Optimizing the Infant's Environment) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program for infants and their mothers that teaches developmental skills to infants and parenting skills to mothers. |
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. |
Harlem Parole Reentry Court |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transition program that provides support and supervision for prisoners reentering the community. |
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