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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Stressbusters |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based cognitive behavioral training program that aims to treat depressive symptoms in adolescents. |
Strong and Clear |
Insufficient Evidence | A multicomponent, school-based program designed to prevent underage drinking through improving family relationships, strengthening parents’ restrictive attitudes towards youths’ alcohol use, and making agreements between parents and children. |
Strong Communities for Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A universal, community-wide approach to prevention of maltreatment of children by strengthening community support networks for families, particularly those with young children. |
Strong Minds |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program intended to improve wellbeing and reduce the likelihood of developing anxiety and depression among high school students using emotional regulation strategies. |
Structured Preschool Efforts in Language and Literacy (SPELL) |
Insufficient Evidence | An early childhood education program designed to improve children’s language and literacy skills using small group instruction. |
Student Assistance Program (SAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based mental health screening program that aims to help students be successful at school by identifying alcohol/drug issues or suicidality and providing appropriate referrals as needed. |
Student Bodies (StayingFit) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An internet-based cognitive-behavioral program intended to help normal and overweight adolescents reduce binge eating, maintain or lose weight, increase healthy eating, increase physical activity, and develop healthy body image. |
Student Success Skills |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve learning skills and academic achievement among students through a structured classroom guidance component and a small group counseling component. |
Student Team Reading and Writing |
Insufficient Evidence | A literacy program designed to improve students’ achievement in reading and language arts through teacher presentation, team practice, independent practice, peer pre-assessment, and individual accountability. |
Student Training through Urban Strategies (STATUS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school climate improvement program intended to combat anti-social behavior through improving student behavior, promote an understanding of society and its systems of law, and prepare delinquency-prone youths to become responsible, productive citizens. |
Student Transition and Recovery Program (STAR) |
Insufficient Evidence | An at-risk intervention that aims to reduce bullying, suspension, expulsion, and juvenile anti-social behavior by combining military-style drilling and exercise with academic tutoring. |
Substance Abuse Prevention in School (new PASE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce youth smoking by creating non-smoking policies in schools, providing lessons to students on smoking refusal skills, and promoting non-smoking messages in the community. |
Success for Kids |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that aims to increase prosocial behaviors and reduce antisocial and problem behaviors in children by building resilience, accessing inner resources, and increasing positive connections with others. |
Suicide Action Montreal |
Insufficient Evidence | A suicide-intervention training that aims to reduce youth suicide by giving helpers at suicide prevention sites or community agencies a broader range of tools to utilize when counseling suicidal youth. |
Summer Counseling |
Not Dissemination Ready | A counseling program offered during the summer following high school graduation to ensure that college-intending students actually enroll in college. The program helps the students to overcome unanticipated financial, informational and emotional barriers that hinder college enrollment. |
Summer Treatment Program (STP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to produce and reinforce positive behavior changes in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder by using behavior management techniques and teaching sports and social skills. It also aims to reduce their risk of more serious problem behaviors or delinquency in the future. |
Supplemental Classwide Math Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program to improve mathematics proficiency, including accuracy and speed in calculations, through supplemental fluency-building activities delivered in regular classes to fourth- and fifth-grade students. |
Support to Reunite, Involve and Value Each Other (STRIVE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A short family intervention designed to reduce sexual risk behavior, drug use, and delinquent behaviors among newly homeless youth by reducing family conflict, improving family problem-solving skills, and teaching conflict resolution skills. |
Supporting Teens' Academic Needs Daily (STAND) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family counseling program that seeks to improve academic performance and decrease conduct problems among adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder by teaching parents and children to work together to correct problem behavior, monitor success, and reward good performance. |
Surviving the Teens |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program to increase depression awareness and prevent suicide by adding several goals to health education classes: identifying risk factors for depression, improving coping skills, increasing family and school connectedness, and increasing helping and help-seeking behavior. |
Switch-on Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to achieve functional literacy, develop independent active readers, and close the reading achievement gap for vulnerable children performing below age-expected levels. |
Synchronized Movement |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve social-cognitive skills and promote cooperation in children by using synchronous movements and shared temporal experiences. |
Syracuse Family Development Research Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-visitor program that seeks to support effective family functioning, increase family cohesiveness, and improve development of the child in high risk families by providing educational, nutrition, health and safety, and human service resources. |
Tailored Package for Child Obesity |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family counseling program designed to reduce child obesity by motivating parents to change children’s diets and activity levels. |
Taiwan Illicit Drug Use Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based education program designed to prevent substance use by integrating life skills training with lessons designed to educate students about the dangers of illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use. |
Take Action Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms in 5th grade children by helping them develop skills for relaxation, coping, and problem-solving. |
Take Charge of Your Life (New DARE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to prevent substance use in early adolescence through explanation of consequences and life skills instruction. |
TakeCARE |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based video program designed to reduce and prevent relationship and sexual violence among high school students by promoting helpful bystander behavior. |
Taking Charge Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to promote long-term self-sufficiency of pregnant and parenting teenagers using cognitive-behavioral therapy and skills training. |
Talent Search |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to help youth from disadvantaged backgrounds prepare for and gain access to college by providing academic, career, and financial counseling. |
Talking Time |
Insufficient Evidence | A preschool-based program designed to improve the language skills of children by developing their vocabulary, comprehension and narrative abilities through games and story activities. |
Teach Your Children Well (TYCW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to teach reading, spelling and mathematics to children through skills development delivered by teachers or homeschooling parents. |
Teacher and Parent Collaboration Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A teacher and parent-delivered intervention designed to improve reading skills among young children. |
Teaching Students to be Peacemakers |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based intervention designed to empower all students to regulate their behavior and resolve their interpersonal conflicts constructively, ideally leading to more peaceful interactions. |
Teaching-Family Model |
Insufficient Evidence | A group home treatment model designed to promote prosocial behavior. |
Teams, Games, Tournaments (TGT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based intervention designed to increase knowledge about alcohol and its consequences among students using a group-based task-and-reward structure. |
Teen Court |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court - Dona Ana County, NM |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court - Sarasota County |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court- Greene County, OH |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Court: Los Angeles County |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative juvenile justice program intended to reduce recidivism and improve family functioning among young offenders through teen-run courts. |
Teen Intervene |
Under Review | A brief intervention designed to reduce alcohol and drug use in adolescents identified by the school as possibly using drugs or alcohol. |
Teen Prevention Education Program (PEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention that aims to reduce pregnancy and STI rates in teenagers through a comprehensive sexual health program that incorporates older high school students as peer educators for groups of younger peers. |
Teen Screen |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to prevent suicide among high school students through counseling and social work. |
Teen Triple P |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent-training intervention designed to reduce adolescent conduct problems by improving parent capacity to adapt practices to the changing needs of children. |
Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to improve students’ health knowledge, attitudes, practices and self-reported priority health behaviors, such as cigarette smoking and the use of alcohol or other drugs. |
Teens and Toddlers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to decrease teenage pregnancy by raising the aspirations and educational attainment of 13-17 year old girls at most risk of social exclusion, leaving education early, and becoming pregnant. |
Tenmarks |
Insufficient Evidence | An online math intervention designed to accelerate academic achievement. |
Tertiary Health Research Intervention via Email (THRIVE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief, web-based survey that aims to decrease the amount of hazardous drinking in university students through personalized feedback. |
Texting Literacy Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based text-messaging program to engage parents in helping their children reduce summer learning loss. |
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