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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Alcohol Skills Training Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief intervention that aims to reduce risky drinking behavior among college students through various techniques that target inaccurate perceptions of peer drinking patterns, challenge alcohol expectancy, and promote self-monitoring alcohol use behavior. |
AlcoholEdu for College |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online harm reduction course that aims to prevent alcohol misuse among college freshmen. |
All Children Excel (ACE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-faceted, multi-agency intervention approach that seeks to promote the healthy development of juvenile offenders under the age of 10 who are at risk for chronic, violent offending later in life. |
All Stars |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to decrease high-risk behaviors such as substance use, violence, and premature sexual activity among early adolescents. |
All Stars Challenge |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based behavior management program designed to help students understand social norms for getting along through structured weekly activities. |
All4You! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school- and community-based intervention that aims to reduce HIV/STI and pregnancy incidence among adolescents. |
Allgemeine Lebenskompetenzen und Fertigkeiten (ALF; general life competencies and skills) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to lower substance affinity and reduce the number of child substance abuse cases. |
Alternative to Suspension for Violent Behavior |
Insufficient Evidence | A conflict resolution training program that aims to reduce further violence among violent adolescents and their parents through the development of social problem-solving and thinking skills. |
Alternatives for Youth's Advocacy Program (AFY) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A civil advocacy program that aims to reduce juvenile offender placements by providing youth with legal representation. This representation aids youth in accessing disability services and defense attorney support for dispositional planning. |
Alternatives to Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to reduce prison infractions among inmates by developing strategies for violence avoidance. |
Amazing Alternatives! Home Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A primary prevention program designed to promote communication between parents and their children, improve parenting skills (such as monitoring and supervision), and reduce underage drinking. |
American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based adaptive skills training program that aims to reduce behavioral and cognitive factors (e.g., depression, aggression, substance abuse) related to suicide. |
Amity In-Prison Therapeutic Community |
Insufficient Evidence | A therapeutic community approach designed to reduce recidivism by providing in-prison structure and support for incarcerated substance abusers. Treatment extends into communities through the use of aftercare facilities. |
Anasazi Foundation: The Making of a Walking |
Insufficient Evidence | A wilderness therapy program for adolescents 12-17 years of age with emotional, behavioral, or substance use problems. |
Anchorage Coordinated Agency Network |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive oversight program that aims to supplement levels of juvenile probationer supervision by augmenting the supervision already provided by juvenile probation officers with one-to-one police officer/probation contact. |
Anger and Other Emotions Management |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to reduce rates of recidivism among violent offenders by decreasing violent behavior and aggressive acts through skill-based training in pro-social behavior and emotion management. |
Anger Control Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based therapeutic approach designed to increase social-problem and self-control skills and reduce aggressive behavior among junior high students exhibiting high rates of classroom or community disruption. |
Anger Coping Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An anger management program that aims to reduce disruptive aggressive behavior and increase self-esteem among early adolescent boys in the classroom and home settings. |
Anger Management Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief group-based intervention that aims to reduce anger, aggression, and disruptive behavior among prisoners. |
Annual Book Fairs |
Inconclusive Evidence | A low-involvement long-term intervention that aims to improve reading achievement among students from low-income families. The program also aims to prevent students’ reading loss by improving their access to books during the summer months. |
Anxiety Management Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based universal prevention program that aims to help adolescent boys cope with stress and anxiety. |
Arrest, Reporting to the Police, and Victim Services for Intimate Partner Violence (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to prevent future physical and/or sexual victimization of abuse victims through instruction on policies used by police and other victims of intimate partner violence. |
Assertion Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based assertion training approach that aims to reduce aggression among adolescents. |
Assertiveness Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A peer-led, group-based assertiveness training program that aims to teach assertive responses and decrease aggressive behavior among Black adolescent males. |
ASSESS (Awareness, Skills, Self-efficacy/Self-esteem, and Social Support) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sex education program that aims to reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents by reducing the occurrence of sexual risk behaviors. |
Assisted Outpatient Treatment |
Insufficient Evidence | An involuntary outpatient program designed to reduce the risk of violence and arrest among individuals with serious mental illnesses. |
At-Risk Youth Mentoring Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive mentoring program that aims to reduce problem behaviors among at-risk youth. |
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. |
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program that aims to facilitate caregiver behaviors that promote the healthy development of maltreated children and their ability to regulate emotion and behavior. It also aims to enhance sensitive, nurturing care among foster parents or other caregivers at high risk for maltreating their children. |
Attention Academy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mindfulness training program that aims to improve elementary school children’s learning experience by improving their ability to focus and deal with stressful situations. |
Aussie Optimism Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce and prevent anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior and promote social, emotional, and cognitive skills in school-aged children (6-11 years of age). |
Aventuras Para Ninos |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component intervention that aims to prevent and control childhood obesity among Latinos by changing the home/family and/or school/community environments. |
Avon Park Youth Academy and Street Smart (APYA/SS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive vocational and educational training program that aims to promote life and community living skills and provide education and job training to facilitate self-sufficiency and a pro-social lifestyle. These goals are achieved by providing “real world” work experience and training on independent living skills within a normalized environment. |
B.U.I.L.D. (Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership) |
Insufficient Evidence | A gang prevention program consisting of four different components, including a gang prevention curriculum and after-school activities, as well as counseling in education and employment. |
Be A Star Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to impact risk and factors that influence drug and alcohol use in adolescents. |
Be Active Eat Well (BAEW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce the body weight of children by supporting community promotion of healthy eating and physical activity. |
Be Smart - Don't Start (also known as Smokefree Competition) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based smoking prevention program that aims to delay or prevent the onset of smoking among adolescents. |
Be smart against cancer! |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote awareness of cancer-related risk factors and intentions to engage in protective behavior, with the ultimate goal of participants embracing healthy behaviors later in life. |
BE smokeFREE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to enhance self-efficacy in coping with pressure and reduce rates of smoking among high school students. |
Be the Exception |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multimedia intervention designed to delay the onset of sexual behavior and decrease sexual risk factors among adolescents in middle school. |
Becoming a Man |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program that aims to reduce criminal behavior and improve school outcomes among disadvantaged male youth. |
Becoming a Man (Juvenile Detention) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A juvenile justice program that aims to reduce recidivism among delinquent youth through treatment received while in juvenile detention. |
Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An HIV prevention program designed to promote access to information and refusal skills to increase abstinence and reduce or eliminate risky sexual behaviors among African American adolescents. |
Becoming Independent |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce the antecedents of health risk behavior (e.g., bullying, internalizing, and externalizing) through life skills training. |
Befriending Anti-Bullying Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based bullying prevention program that aims to develop behavioral awareness among children through a befriending model that supports their ability to offer support to the victims of bullying. |
Behavior Support Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide behavioral support and discipline program that aims to reduce school detentions. |
Behavioral Couples Therapy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A treatment program that aims to improve marital relationships and reduce substance abuse among men with substance-use problems. |
Behavioral Training for Preschool Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce disruptive, shy, and withdrawn behavior and promote social-emotional competence among preschoolers. |
Benzies & Batchies |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce sexual harassment among adolescents through the presentation of a play, teaching lessons, and encouraging discussion. |
BEST MOOD |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to reduce depressive symptoms and promote family cohesion and healthy attachments in adolescents through family-based group therapy sessions delivered by therapists in a multi-family setting. |
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