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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Staying Connected with Your Teen (formerly Parents Who Care) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program designed to prevent problem behaviors among teens, such as substance abuse, violence, delinquency and early initiation of sexual behavior, by helping parents acquire or improve a variety of key parenting skills and techniques. |
Staying Healthy – Asthma Responsible and Prepared (SHARP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | SHARP is a health education and counseling program to help fourth- to seventh-grade students (9-13 year-olds) who have asthma to live with and manage their asthma. |
Steering Clear Project, Family-Based Smoking Prevention |
Insufficient Evidence | A family-oriented smoking prevention program intended to reduce the onset of smoking in at-risk children with high susceptibility (the absence of a firm resolve not to smoke). |
Step Up |
Insufficient Evidence | A group intervention for families with court-involved youth that aims to address youth-initiated patterns of domestic violence. |
Steps to Respect |
Not Dissemination Ready | An anti-bullying curriculum designed to reduce bullying and destructive bystander behaviors, increase prosocial beliefs related to bullying, and increase social-emotional skills through a grade appropriate literature unit and other educational materials and lessons. |
Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program (STAMPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based alcohol prevention program, coupled with a brief parental component, that aims to reduce heavy episodic drinking and alcohol-related harms in adolescents. |
Stewards of Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A childcare training program designed to prevent childhood sexual abuse by educating caretakers on prevention and risks of sexual abuse. |
Stop School Bullying |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based workshop program that aims to reduce bullying using a holistic approach to changing attitudes and behaviors in the school. |
STORIES & Skillstreaming Social Competency Programs |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve the social competence of children with emotional disabilities through promotion of effective problem solving skills and reduced aggressive and externalizing behaviors, using stories and the peer group processes as mechanisms for increasing strategies available for interpreting situations. |
Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-modeled reading intervention designed to create independent self-regulated readers who are capable of applying appropriate reading strategies in various contexts. |
Strategies & Tools to Embrace Prevention with Upstream Programs (STEP UP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A middle school curriculum that seeks to bolster social and emotional competence for the specific purpose of preventing aggressive and self-destructive behaviors, including suicide. |
Strategies to Enhance Positive Parenting (STEPP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group skill-building program designed to enhance parenting skills of single mothers with children diagnosed with ADHD, thereby improving parental stress and psychopathology and reducing problematic child behavior. |
Strengthening Families |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent-training program intended to reduce children’s risk factors associated with substance use and delinquency by improving parenting skills among parents with substance abuse problems. |
Stress Inoculation Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive counseling program that aims to help adolescents cope with stress, while producing reductions in anxiety, depression and anger as well as increases in self-esteem. |
Stressbusters |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based cognitive behavioral training program that aims to treat depressive symptoms in adolescents. |
Strive Weekly |
Under Review | An online, synchronized, group-level, universal program to prevent anxiety and depression among college students. |
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 Kids |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve social and emotional skills in elementary school students through improving skills of self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, social management, and responsible decision-making. |
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. |
Study without Stress |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based psychoeducation program that aims to help students cope with academic stress in the final year of secondary school. |
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 Counseling — Texts |
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 for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-session group program that aims to reduce post-traumatic and depressive symptoms and improve functioning of middle school youth who have been exposed to traumatic events. |
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 Father Involvement |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent training program intended to reduce child externalizing and internalizing behaviors by promoting positive father involvement early in child and family life trajectories. |
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. |
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation College Scholarship |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial aid program designed for college-bound high school seniors who have yet to make their initial enrollment decisions but who seek financial assistance to help them afford college. |
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. |
Take Charge! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program that uses mentoring and relationship building to reduce aggression, fighting, and reinjury among assault-injured youths. |
Take the Lead |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide curriculum designed to decrease bullying in middle school by targeting social competencies. |
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