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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Open Circle (Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to enhance students’ social competency and problem-solving skills. |
Opening Doors |
Insufficient Evidence | A multifaceted prevention program designed for at-risk youth and their parents to prevent and reduce alcohol and drug use, school drop-out, and other behavioral problems among at-risk adolescents. |
Opening the World of Learning (OWL) Building Blocks PreKindergarten Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prekindergarten program designed to improve children’s mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills. |
Operation SAVE KIDS |
Insufficient Evidence | To reduce truancy and instill a sense of responsibility in students and their parents. |
Operation Swordfish |
Inconclusive Evidence | An adult crime prevention program designed to reduce residential burglary through police-led target-hardening of previously burgled homes. |
OPTIONS Program to Prevent Adolescent Aggression |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to prevent violent behavior among at-risk youth by developing interventions for youth and their parents and generating alternatives to arrest, detention, and prosecution. |
Orange County Juvenile Substance Abuse Treatment Court |
Insufficient Evidence | A juvenile drug court/treatment program that focuses on breaking behavioral patterns of addiction, changing irrational thinking patterns, enhancing motivation for treatment, and providing exposure and access to supportive influences, as well as meeting educational and vocational needs and developing life skills. |
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. |
OSTA |
Insufficient Evidence | A community supervision and aftercare program designed to reduce suicide among an at-risk population by implementing a follow-up protocol that uses communication strategies to engage subjects with treatment. |
Parent Aide Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program that seeks to break the cycle of child maltreatment by providing free-of-charge in-home services to families referred by child protective services (CPS). |
Parent Aide Services |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to reduce the risk of physical abuse and neglect by targeting parenting behavior and environmental challenges linked with child maltreatment risk. |
Parent Based Intervention for College Students |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-based alcohol prevention program designed to reduce alcohol use among incoming college students and sexual victimization as a result of heavy drinking by raising parental awareness of alcohol abuse and consequences among college students and increasing parental effort to address this issue with their teen. |
Parent Child Mediation |
Insufficient Evidence | A family therapy program designed for families with delinquent youth to support family functioning and improve academic progress while reducing substance use and delinquency among youth. |
Parent Connectors |
Inconclusive Evidence | A telephone-based parent support program designed to increase the engagement of parents of children with emotional disturbances in the education and mental health services their child receives, which, in return, increase the engagement of children in mental health services and improve child school functioning. |
Parent Engagement Project (PEP) [Texting Parents] |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program designed to improve academic performance and attendance among secondary school students by keeping parents informed on their child’s school performance via text messages. |
Parent Panel |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief psycho-social intervention designed to train parents in how to communicate with their children about academics via a panel discussion session. |
Parent Party Patrol (PPP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based drug prevention program designed to reduce adolescent involvement in unsupervised activities and substance use by providing parents with information about ways to increase monitoring and improve communication and family guidelines regarding substance use. |
Parent-Adolescent Relationship Education (PARE) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A curriculum that attempts to delay initiation of sexual activity and promote safe-sex practices by fostering parental involvement in the education of their children aged between 12 and 14. |
Parent-Child Assistance Program (P-CAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home visitation program designed for high-risk substance-abusing women to assist them in obtaining substance abuse treatment, maintaining recovery, resolving problems associated with substance abuse, and fostering a safe environment for their children. |
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy - Emotional Development (PCIT-ED) |
Insufficient Evidence | A family therapy program designed to successfully treat early onset of depression among preschool children. |
Parent-Delivered Early Language Enrichment Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-delivered academic service to enhance language skills among preschool-aged children. |
Parental Skills and Attachment in Early Childhood (CAPEDP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-visitation program that aims to ultimately improve child mental health by preventing and reducing postnatal depression symptoms in mothers and improving the quality of the home environment. |
Parental Training for Lone Mothers Guided by Educators (PALME) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed for single mothers to reduce maternal depression, which helps to stabilize the mother-child relationship. |
Parenting Adolescents: A Creative Experience (PACE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to improve parents’ communication skills and relationships with adolescents in order to reduce adolescent risk factors implicated in youth suicide. |
Parenting Education Program (PEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-component program that aims to enhance positive parenting behaviors and family relationships |
Parenting Partnership |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to reduce family risk and increase family protective factors related to child substance abuse, family stress, and emotional difficulties. |
Parenting Toolkit |
Insufficient Evidence | An online parent training program designed to increase parents’ self-efficacy and improve their disciplinary responses to child oppositional behavior, ultimately intending to reduce problem behavior among at-risk adolescents. |
Parenting Video-Feedback Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed for mothers with postnatal depression to improve parenting skills, and in return, the quality of the mother-child interaction. |
Parenting Wisely |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reduce behavior problems in at-risk children by teaching effective parenting skills to families. |
Parenting With Love and Limits (PLL) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reestablish parenting authority, improve parent-child interaction, and reduce behavior problems and criminal offending of youth. |
Parents and Children Talking Together (PCTT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to decrease child problem behavior by improving family communication. |
Parents and Tots Together (PTT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group lesson that aims to reduce body mass index (BMI) and promote healthy eating and exercise among children by changing parenting strategies and behaviors. |
Parents Plus - Parenting When Separated (PP-PWS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed for separated parents to develop skills for coping and effective co-parenting. |
Parents Plus Adolescents Program (PPAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to reduce adolescent antisocial and problem behaviors by teaching parents positive parenting and discipline strategies. |
Parents Plus Children's Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed to reduce and prevent child behavior problems by providing parents with positive parenting and discipline strategies. |
Parents Plus Early Years |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program that aims to empower parents to build positive relationships with their child and to promote child development. |
Parents, Students, and Teachers for Healthy Eating (PAPPAS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to promote healthy eating habits among adolescents, ultimately to reduce the increase in students’ Body Mass Index (BMI). |
Partners in Parenting |
Insufficient Evidence | A tailored web-based parenting program to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety problems. |
PASCET (Primary and Secondary Control Enhancement Training) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral therapy program for depressed children and adolescents that teaches appropriate coping mechanisms for different types of distressing situations. |
PASS Reading Enhancement Program (PREP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A remedial reading comprehension program for primary school-aged children who are experiencing difficulty with reading and spelling. |
Passport to Literacy |
Insufficient Evidence | A supplemental multi-component intervention designed to improve the reading outcomes of struggling readers. |
Pathfinder Programs for Offenders Serving Probation Orders |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive skills training initiative designed to develop offenders’ problem solving, creative thinking, social, emotions management, negotiation, values enhancement, and critical reasoning skills. |
Pathway Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program that aims to improve the reading and writing skills of English learners in middle school and high school, by training and supporting English teachers to provide students with explicit instruction and practice of the cognitive strategies required to understand, interpret, and write essays about complex text. |
Pathways Home |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to improve parenting behaviors and prevent reunification failures of children returning home to biological parents after first-time stays in foster care. |
Pathways To Change |
Insufficient Evidence | A computer-based smoking cessation program that aims to achieve successful smoking cessation by enrolling participants in an individualized behavioral intervention according to their stage of preparation to quit. |
Pause, Breathe, Smile |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote well-being in elementary school children. |
PAX Good Behavior Game |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program that aims to reduce aggressive, disruptive behavior and other behavioral problems in children by creating a positive and effective learning environment. |
PBS KIDS Raising Readers Curriculum Supplement |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal media-enriched curriculum supplement that focuses on developing early literacy skills among children aged 2-8 years. |
PEACE Pack |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide strategy aimed to reduce bullying behaviors and victimization among students. |
PeaceBuilders |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention curriculum for grades K-5 that teaches students and staff interaction principles that build social competence skills and reduce aggression. |
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