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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Pulling Levers – Gang Violence (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A policing strategy to reduce gang-related gun violence by increasing the costs of violent behavior. |
PurposeFull People |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal social-emotional learning and character education program that aims to enhance the social and emotion regulation skills of students in elementary school. |
Pyramid Club |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention aimed at improving self-esteem, social skills, and socio-emotional health of children with socio-emotional difficulties. |
Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A youth development program designed to provide education and development activities to reduce high-risk behaviors, improve academic skills, increase high school completion and post-secondary attainment of high risk youth from economically disadvantaged families and poor neighborhoods. |
Quit the Shit |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based counseling program intended to reduce the quantity and frequency of marijuana use. |
Raising a Thinking Child: I Can Problem-Solve for Families |
Insufficient Evidence | A problem-solving skills program designed to alter children’s interpersonal thinking styles to enhance social adjustment and decrease impulsivity and inhibition. |
Raising Early Achievements in Literacy (REAL) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based program intended to improve emerging literacy among preschool children through home visits, literacy resources, and instruction for parents. |
RAP Club |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based group intervention intended to help students deal with trauma and stress, regulate emotions, and make effective decisions. |
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) for High School Depression and Anxiety |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to increase students’ self-esteem and hope while decreasing dysfunctional thoughts and symptoms of anxiety and depression by teaching them how to recognize and challenge negative thoughts that lead to self-defeating cognitions and behaviors. |
Rational Emotive Behavioral Education Competence and Vienna Social Competence (REBE-ViSC) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to decrease bullying in adolescents by teaching students to recognize their negative emotions, to find alternatives to aggression, and to practice empathy and perspective-taking with other students. |
Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transitional program intended to reduce recidivism and promote employment by providing job training, mentorship, and additional social support services to assist ex-offenders. |
REACH |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based intervention designed to improve reading accuracy and comprehension by providing targeted reading support to children with reading difficulties. |
Reach Out and Read |
Inconclusive Evidence | A health center-based intervention designed to increase parent-child reading and improve toddlers’ vocabulary through a literacy promoting intervention delivered by pediatric providers. |
REACH-Futures |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program intended to reduce infant mortality by improving parent efficacy and age appropriate expectations. |
READ 180 |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 90-minute, daily, computer-supported intensive reading intervention curriculum aimed at raising reading fluency and comprehension of struggling readers. |
Read Naturally |
Inconclusive Evidence | A supplemental computer and media-based reading program that aims to improve reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension of elementary and middle school students. |
Read Now |
Insufficient Evidence | A remedial intervention that serves to provide a basic understanding of reading to nonreaders and those with pronounced reading difficulty. |
Read Well |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to improve students’ reading ability by combining systematic phonics instruction with practice in decodable text and ample discussion of vocabulary and concepts. |
ReadAbout |
Inconclusive Evidence | A supplemental reading program that aims to improve the comprehension of informational texts through teacher instruction, group work, and computer lessons. |
Reading Edge |
Insufficient Evidence | A literacy program that seeks to prepare students of all abilities to be strategic, independent, and motivated readers and learners. |
Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer (READS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An at-home summer reading program that aims to improve reading comprehension in elementary school-aged children by encouraging them to read both narrative and informational books. |
Reading for Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | A 10-week diversion program that reduces and prevents crime among nonviolent juvenile offenders by using literature and small mentoring groups to foster moral development. |
Reading Mastery |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to help students become fluent, independent, and highly skilled readers through direct instruction of reading, language, and literacy skills. |
Reading Partners |
Inconclusive Evidence | A one-on-one tutoring program designed to improve reading performance and academic behavior of elementary school students with reading problems. |
READY talk |
Inconclusive Evidence | A training program for parents designed to promote communication and language development with their preschool children in preparing them for kindergarten. |
Ready to Learn |
Insufficient Evidence | An embedded curricular intervention to develop social and cognitive competencies in preschool and kindergarten and to promote school success. |
Ready, Willing, & Able |
Insufficient Evidence | A transitional community-based program that aims to reduce crime and recidivism among individuals who were recently released from prison by providing them with housing, an array of social services and trainings, and a transitional job so they can lead independent lives |
READY4K! |
Inconclusive Evidence | This text-messaging program for parents of preschoolers seeks to help them support their child’s literacy development. |
Reaffirming Young Sisters’ Excellence (RYSE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A probation program that seeks to prevent adjudicated girls from re-entering the criminal justice system through promoting prosocial development of social, academic, and vocational competencies that will enable them to live a crime-free and economically secure lifestyle. |
REAL Girls |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve the resilience of adolescent girls who are dealing with developmental challenges and school-related problems. |
RealVictory |
Insufficient Evidence | A 6-week cognitive training treatment intended to reduce recidivism among juvenile offenders through automated cell phone calls as aftercare. |
Reasoning & Rehabilitation Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A probation program intended to reduce adult offender recidivism by teaching skills in problem solving, creative thinking, social skills, management of emotions, negotiation skills, values enhancement, and critical reasoning. |
Reasoning & Rehabilitation Program + Enhanced Thinking Skills Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A multimodal program that aims to reduce offender recidivism by teaching skills to prisoners in problem solving, creative thinking, social skills, management of emotions, negotiation skills, values enhancement, and critical reasoning. |
RECAP |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to reduce the level of children’s psychological problems and prevent the development of more serious problems through skills acquisition and parent-teacher engagement. |
Reconnecting Youth |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program intended to decrease drug involvement, increase school performance, and decrease depression and suicidal intentions among high school students with behavioral problems. |
Reduced Probation Caseload Size in an Evidence-Based Practice Setting |
Inconclusive Evidence | A probation program designed to reduce recidivism in high-risk cases by providing more hands-on monitoring and greater scrutiny of offenders’ rehabilitative efforts and treatment progress. |
Reducing TV to Prevent Obesity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program utilizing lessons and “homework” to challenge children and parents to limit the amount of time they spend watching television, video games, and movies, in an effort to promote healthier bodies in children. |
Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol (RYAA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 2-year intervention using a mix of law enforcement and other community-based activities to reduce underage access to alcohol in communities. |
Regional Intervention Program (RIP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A family counseling program intended to prevent chronic behavioral problems among preschool children with serious behavior and/or developmental concerns through parental involvement in mental health treatment. |
Relationship Building Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program intended to promote positive socio-emotional adjustment and academic achievement among fifth grade children through skill development and peer interaction. |
Repeat Offender Prevention Program (ROPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive probation supervision program intended to prevent first-time offenders who are at high-risk for chronic offending from committing more crime through participation through provision of integrated services to the offender and his/her family. |
Residential Student Assistance Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A counseling program designed to prevent and reduce alcohol and other drug use among high-risk adolescents placed in a residential facility. |
Resilience Builder Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | Aims to build and improve social competence and emotional regulation skills among ethnic/racial minority youth in underserved communities using a manualized group therapy program. |
Resilience Triple P |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family counseling program intended to reduce childhood bullying and enhance emotional resilience through facilitative parenting training and social and emotional skills training for children. |
Resilience-Based Mental Health Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A broad-based program intended to improve mental health of students, reduce internalizing and externalizing, and encourage prosocial behavior by strengthening youth resiliency. |
Resilience, Opportunity, Safety, Education, Strength (ROSES) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based, trauma-informed intervention program that aims to prevent recidivism among adolescent girls involved in the juvenile justice system. |
Resilient Families |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent early initiation and frequent and heavy use of alcohol and depression among adolescents in middle school. |
Resolve It, Solve It |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to teach students respect for individual differences, conflict resolution skills, and anti-bullying skills. |
Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program intended to reduce violent behavior and absentee rates, boost academic achievement and prosocial behavior, and promote intergroup understanding and positive intergroup interaction with a school-wide curriculum. |
Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to prevent depression in adolescents using cognitive behavioral and interpersonal therapy. |
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