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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Schoolchildren & Their Families Project (SATFP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent-training program intended to promote long-term healthy school adjustment in children by improving relationships between the child and parent, and between the parents, when children are entering kindergarten/elementary school. |
Scottish Childhood Overweight Treatment Trial (SCOTT) |
Insufficient Evidence | An individualized behavior program designed to treat health problems associated with children who are overweight or obese. |
SEALS (Supporting Early Adolescents’ Learning and Social Success) |
Insufficient Evidence | A teacher-training program designed to improve student academic outcomes by using professional development to enhance teachers’ capacity to shape student peer norms and create supportive learning environments for early adolescents. |
Second Step |
Insufficient Evidence | An age-appropriate classroom curriculum designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and increase their level of social competence through teaching empathy, impulse control, and anger management. |
Second Step – Elementary Version |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom curriculum intended to prevent violence by teaching children skills that strengthen their ability to learn, have empathy, manage emotions, and solve problems. |
Selbyville Peer Mediation Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer mediator program that aims to decrease the number of office referrals and detentions/suspensions based on conflicts between students. |
Self-Affirmation Writing Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | To improve the school performance of students in groups that are negatively stereotyped such as ethnic minorities. |
SellSmart / ServeSmart |
Insufficient Evidence | A toolkit that aims to reduce sales of alcohol to underage customers by increasing positive alcohol retailer attitudes towards checking IDs, encouraging retail managers to formalize ID checking procedures with their employees, and notifying consumers to be prepared to show ID when purchasing alcohol. |
Sembrando Salud |
Insufficient Evidence | A culturally-sensitive, school-based curriculum intended to prevent or reduce the susceptibility to tobacco and alcohol use among high-risk migrant children and adolescents, to improve communication with parents, and to change attitudes toward tobacco use. |
Separation Anxiety Family Therapy (Trennungs Angstprogramm Fur Familien: TAFF) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral treatment program that aims to reduce the symptoms of separation anxiety in children through treatment provided to both the parent and child. |
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiatives (SVORI) |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-to-community transitional program intended to prepare high-risk offenders for successful community reintegration through institutional and community programming, thereby decreasing serious and violent crime and enhancing community safety. |
Serious Offender Accountability Restoration (SOAR) |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-to-community transitional program that seeks to reduce recidivism of high-risk adult and juvenile offenders through a diversified approach that includes comprehensive treatment, case management, and community involvement. |
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-staff training program designed to help improve student performance; reduce conflicts, disciplinary problems, and truancy; and to enhance cooperation and teamwork among parents, teens, and parents. |
Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Program (SAPEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based training and discussion program designed to reduce sexual victimization through changing sexual abuse attitudes and knowledge among high school girls in Nigeria. |
Sexual Abuse, Family Education and Treatment (SAFE-T) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to prevent repeat sexual abuse through sexual abuse specific assessment, treatment, consultation, and long-term support to (1) child victims of incest and their families-including adult incest offenders, (2) children with sexual behavior problems and their families, and (3) adolescent sexual offenders and their families. |
Sexuality Education Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | A rights-based sexuality education curriculum designed to improve adolescents’ sexual health behaviors and psychosocial outcomes. |
Shadow Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A culturally and historically relevant enhanced family intervention intended to reduce adolescent alcohol and other drug use in American Indians and Alaska Natives. |
Shaping Healthy Choices |
Insufficient Evidence | A multicomponent nutrition intervention intended to improve dietary behaviors and prevent childhood obesity through nutrition education and promotion, family and community partnerships, supporting regional agriculture, improving foods available on the school campus, and school wellness committees and policies. |
Shaping the Social |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that sims to promote student wellbeing while reducing smoking and school dropout through the integration of educational and social goals. |
Sisters Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A comprehensive program intended to ensure the coordination of drug treatment, prenatal, postpartum, pediatric, and family support services for pregnant and postpartum women through peer support and paraprofessional case management. |
Situational Crime Prevention in Schools |
Insufficient Evidence | An environmental intervention intended to reduce crime by reducing the opportunities to engage in it through increasing surveillance, locker searches, implementation of school uniforms, closed campuses during lunches, and methods to keep non-students and non-employees out of the schools. |
Skills for Growing |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent conduct problems and encourage prosocial behavior by promoting a broad set of social and emotional skills, character values, and life skills through social emotional learning. |
Skills for Life |
Insufficient Evidence | A social emotional learning program that aims to improve adolescent health behaviors (such as decreased smoking and alcohol use) and reduce bullying and suicidal ideation by encouraging and teaching pro-social behavior, interpersonal skills, self-awareness, and social awareness. |
Skills Learning Support Program (SLSP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase academic performance of educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds by developing their motivation and self-regulation skills. |
SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) – Start SMART, Stay SMART, SMART Leaders |
Insufficient Evidence | A life-skills training program designed to teach youth social and personal competence skills, identify and resist peer and social pressures to use drugs, and prevent onset of early sexual activity. |
SMART Team (Students Managing Anger & Resolution Together) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program intended to decrease violent behavior in adolescents using dispute resolution, anger management, and perspective-taking techniques. |
SMART-in-Education (Stress Management and Relaxation Techniques) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase the sense of efficacy and well-being of parents and teachers, and improve the quality of their relationships with their children, by facilitating their emotion regulation and problem solving through a mindfulness training program. |
Smile Project (SP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based social skills training program that aims to reduce depression symptoms by encouraging social skills and peer support. |
SmokeFree Sports (SFS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A sport-for-health program that seeks to reduce later cigarette use among 9-10 year olds by increasing non-smoking intentions and refusal self-efficacy cognitions using coached sports classes, focus groups, and a school-wide assembly with a non-smoking sports star. |
Smoking Cessation Mass Media Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A school and mass media program designed to decrease smoking among adolescents through awareness raising, teaching refusal skills, and peer support. |
Smoking Prevention Programs (Dutch) |
Insufficient Evidence | An in-school and computer-based program intended to reduce smoking prevalence among adolescents through enrollment in a smoking prevention intervention that focuses on developing social skills (to resist social influences to smoke) and improving students’ cigarette refusal capacity. |
Sobre Canyes I Petes |
Insufficient Evidence | A universal, school-based program designed to prevent adolescents from progressing from non-use or ever use to regular use of cannabis through provision of information, refusal skills training, and discussion of risks and consequences. |
Soccer for Success |
Insufficient Evidence | The program aims to reduce child obesity by engaging children in physical activity, nutrition education, mentorship, and family engagement through participating in soccer. |
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase social and emotional wellbeing by decreasing internalizing and externalizing behaviors through a schoolwide educational program for adolescents. |
Social and Emotional Training (SET)- Sweden |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to use social and emotional learning to decrease the use of drugs, volatile substances, alcohol and tobacco through teacher instruction. |
Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents (SCPP-YA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to prevent antisocial behavior in young adolescents by enhancing their capacity to coordinate interrelated cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills so they effectively handle developmentally relevant social tasks. |
Social Networking Safety Promotion and Cyberbullying Prevention |
Insufficient Evidence | A 45-minute presentation intended to prevent cyberbullying and improve social network safety by informing middle school students of the dangers of social networking and the negative effects of cyberbullying. |
Social Reintegration Parole Program (Practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | A social reintegration probation program designed for drug-related offenders to reduce recidivism and drug relapse rates through prosocial interaction with community volunteers and regular meetings with parole officers. |
Social Skills Improvement System-Classwide Intervention Program (SSIS-CIP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A teacher-delivered program that aims to improve social-emotional skills and academic readiness behaviors in young children through classroom-based instruction. |
Social Support with Drug Testing |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based treatment combining drug testing and social support to prevent relapse among newly paroled drug-abusing offenders. |
SODAS City |
Insufficient Evidence | A small group intervention intended to reduce alcohol use among youth through instruction and skills practice. |
Sources of Strength Suicide Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based suicide prevention program that aims to enhance protective factors among peer leaders trained to conduct schoolwide messaging and among the full population of high school students. |
South Dakota 24-7 Sobriety Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A probation program designed to reduce drunk driving through twice-a-day breathalyzer tests. |
SPARK Ohio |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-based early childhood intervention designed to improve school readiness among at risk children aged 3-6 by fostering engaged learning among both parents and children. |
Spatial Temporal (ST) Math |
Insufficient Evidence | A supplemental mathematics software program designed to improve students’ performance in mathematics. |
Spectrum Wilderness Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative justice program designed to reduce arrest and/or incarceration and preventing or reducing delinquency though a wilderness stress challenge. |
Spiritual Education Program (SEP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based spiritual intervention deisgned to enhance social interaction skills and reduce social anxieties among introverted children. |
SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness Parent Flyers (Postcards) |
Insufficient Evidence | A mail-based program that aims to reduce adolescent alcohol and drug use by sending three postcards to parents with information and encouragement to talk to their teens about health and fitness. |
Sport-2-Stay-Fit |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to increase participation in sports and physical activity among children and adolescents with physical disabilities. |
Start Strong |
Insufficient Evidence | A multicomponent initiative designed to reduce teen dating violence by focusing on teaching middle school students a variety of skills that promote healthy relationships through community and school environmental changes. |
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