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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Problematic Sexual Behaviors Cognitive Behavior Therapy for School Age Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive behavioral therapy designed to reduce or eliminate incidents of problematic child sexual behavior. |
Program for School Guidance (PAE) |
Insufficient Evidence | An afterschool remedial education program designed to improve academic achievement of underperforming students. |
Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) |
Insufficient Evidence | An outpatient social skills program that aims to improve friendship quality and social skills among teens diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. |
Project ACHIEVE |
Insufficient Evidence | A school reform that aims to design and implement effective school and schooling processes that maximize the academic and social/emotional/behavioral progress and achievement of all students. |
Project Adult Identity Mentoring (AIM) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A sexual education class designed to promote abstinence, delay initiation of sex, and decrease intention to engage in sex through goal setting and discussion of obstacles to achieving those goals. |
Project ALERT (Adolescent Learning Experiences in Resistance Training) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to prevent drug use among adolescents using a cognitive, social-influence approach. |
Project ASSERT |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to reduce or eliminate drug use among youth through a motivational interview delivered by a peer-educator. |
Project Back-on-Track |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-faceted after-school program designed to divert youth in the early stages of delinquency from committing future criminal offences, thereby helping them to avoid lifelong recidivism. |
Project BASIS |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to decrease misbehavior and increase appropriate behavior of middle-school students. |
Project CARE |
Inconclusive Evidence | Family education combined with a center-based educational daycare program. |
Project Chill |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance-use prevention program that aims to prevent, delay, or reduce cannabis use in adolescents through a brief, 30-60-minute intervention delivered by therapists or computers. |
Project CHOICE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program designed to reduce alcohol and marijuana use in young teens. |
Project Chrysalis |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce the use of alcohol and other drugs among female adolescents with histories of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and other negative consequences of childhood sexual abuse. |
Project EX |
Inconclusive Evidence | A tobacco cession program designed to increase cessation rates among youth smokers aged 14 – 19. |
Project FLAVOR (Fun Learning about Vitality, Origins, and Respect) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A smoking prevention program designed to prevent youth from smoking by addressing psychosocial risk factors for smoking with multiculturally relevant activities and lessons. |
Project Greenlight |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-based reentry program designed to decrease recidivism. |
Project Hope |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family intervention aimed at preventing depression and substance use among adolescent-aged children of parents with depression. |
Project IMAGE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A clinic-based cognitive-behavioral intervention to prevent STIs among at-risk ethnic minority adolescent women. |
Project K Youth Development Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A youth development program that aims to increase social and academic self-efficacy through structured group activities, workshops, and mentoring. |
Project L.E.A.N. |
Insufficient Evidence | A health education and physical activity program designed for Hispanic elementary students, with lessons on healthy eating, exercise, diabetes and self-esteem. |
Project Link |
Insufficient Evidence | A hospital-based intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program designed to improve neonatal outcomes of pregnant substance abusers. |
Project Naja |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed for African American adolescents to prevent or delay drug use, increase drug-refusal skills, and decrease early risky sexual activity and pregnancy by increasing resiliency factors and reducing risk factors. |
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. |
Project PACE (Participation and Cooperation in Education) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program designed to prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use by providing a series of intensive interventions to at-risk fourth grade students and their families. |
Project PEACE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce dating violence among college-aged individuals. |
Project PRIDE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based drug abuse prevention program intended to intervene at or before the early stages of drug and alcohol abuse. |
Project READY (adolescent substance use) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based drug prevention program that aims to reduce substance use in adolescents through motivational interviewing-based treatment that encourages participants’ motivation to change behaviors. |
Project SEEK |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed for young children of prison inmates to reduce the probability that these children will participate in delinquent and criminal behavior. |
Project Spark |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based obesity prevention program that addresses risk factors for diabetes and obesity among late elementary and middle school youths. |
Project STAR |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug prevention program that aims to promote the development and well-being of young children and their families by addressing risk factors associated with drug use in later adolescent and adult life through a class-room based curriculum, parent training, and home visits. |
Project Success – Irvine, CA |
Insufficient Evidence | A substance abuse prevention program designed to prevent or reduce alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among at-risk adolescents and to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors associated with adolescent substance use. |
Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students) |
Insufficient Evidence | A substance use prevention program designed to delay or reduce alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drug use among at-risk high school students. |
Project Sync |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief, hospital-based, cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to reduce violent victimization and antisocial, aggressive behavior among youth living in neighborhoods with elevated community violence rates. |
Project TALC (Teens and Adults Learning to Communicate) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family training program for parents with AIDS and their children aimed at decreasing emotional distress and increasing emotional and logistical coping skills for dealing with the parents’ illness. |
Project Toward No Tobacco Use (TNT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent and reduce tobacco use among youth. |
Project Trust |
Insufficient Evidence | A program designed to reduce factors that contribute to violence among students, specifically, divisive student cliques that depend on and foster experiences of difference, mistrust, and exclusion. |
Project Venture |
Insufficient Evidence | A youth development program designed to reduce alcohol and drug use among high-risk Native American youth in grades 6 to 9. |
Project WIN |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that teaches children “transforming power” and “integrative negotiation strategies.” |
Projeto Parceria (Partnership Project) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to help mothers with a history of interpersonal violence to cope with traumatic experiences while simultaneously teaching positive parenting skills. |
Prolonged Exposure Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral treatment program for individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). |
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. |
Promoting Academic Retention for Tribal Youth (PARITY) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce dropout rates and bolster resiliency in adolescents. |
Promoting Acceleration of Comprehension and Content Through Text (PACT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A content knowledge instructional strategy designed to improve reading comprehension for students with reading difficulties. |
Promoting prosocial and emotional skills to counteract externalizing problems in adolescents |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to promote prosocial behavior in early adolescence. |
Promoting Prosocial Pupil Behaviour |
Inconclusive Evidence | A curriculum-based intervention that aims to reduce bullying and aggressive behaviors that occur both within and outside of the school setting by promoting prosocial classroom activities. |
Protecting You/Protecting Me (PY/PM) |
Insufficient Evidence | A five-year, classroom-based alcohol-use prevention curriculum that aims to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in youth. |
PsycheNet |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based program that aims to reduce eating disorder pathology, anxiety, depression, and low self-image among adolescents. |
Psychosocial Nursing Education Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program designed for mothers of children with intellectual disability that aims to reduce the risk of depression among the mothers and enhance family functioning. |
Public Commitment and Obesity (The HEALTHY study) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent diabetes and to reduce obesity among middle school students by fostering healthy behaviors through public commitment. |
Pulling Levers – Drug Market Intervention (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A policing strategy to reduce crime among drug users by putting pressure on street drug dealers to leave targeted areas. |
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