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:
1462 Programs
| Brief Description | ||
|---|---|---|
Children's Appetite Awareness Training (CAAT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An obesity prevention program designed to reduce incidence rates of childhood obesity by improving children’s self-regulatory capacities. |
Children's Aftercare Re-entry Experience (CARE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce recidivism among youth offenders currently on parole or probation through individualized case management and goal setting. |
Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preventative school-based program that aims to create a supportive group in which children can freely share experiences, establish common bonds, clarify misconceptions, and acquire skills that enhance their capacity to cope with the stressful changes that divorce often poses. |
Children in Between (formerly Children in the Middle) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A skills-training program designed to reduce the risk of behavioral problems among children of divorced parents through reductions in stress and anxiety. |
Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe (CHSUBS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum that aims to protect children by teaching them the skills they need to prevent or interrupt child abuse, bullying, and neglect. |
ChildCARE |
Insufficient Evidence | A selective prevention program that aims to improve academic performance and school satisfaction among children whose parents are affected by HIV/AIDs by improving the resilience and coping mechanisms of the children and bolstering their family and community support systems. |
Child-Parent Psychotherapy |
Insufficient Evidence | Relationship-based intervention for children aged birth through 5 years who are showing mental health or behavioral problems, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Goals include: 1) to reduce the occurrence and re-occurrence of abuse and neglect; 2) to enhance the child’s developmental functioning; 3) to improve the parent-child relationship; 4) to increase expeditious permanency placements; and 5) to develop a model for intervention and treatment that could potentially be replicated at different sites. |
Child Anxiety Multi-Day Program (CAMP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive cognitive behavioral intervention that aims to reduce the severity of separation anxiety disorder among young girls. |
Child Advocacy Centers |
Insufficient Evidence | Child-focused facility-based programs designed to improve the community collaborative response to child sexual abuse and the criminal justice processing of child sexual abuse cases. |
Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to support children’s emotional and behavioral regulation and to reduce their risk of behavioral difficulties. |
Chicago Predictive Policing Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A policing strategy that aims to reduce gun violence. |
Chicago Parent Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group-based parent training program designed to promote positive parenting strategies and reduce problem behaviors among African American and Latino children two through four years of age attending day care centers that serve low-income families. |
Chicago Child-Parent Center (CPC) Preschool Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A center-based early intervention that aims to increase school achievement by providing educational and family support services to at-risk children. |
Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to utilize the police in ways that allow them to be crime prevention mechanisms rather than reactors to crime. |
Check and Connect (C&C) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention to improve attendance, reduce dropout, and promote school engagement among urban high school youth who are at risk for learning problems or have learning or emotional/behavioral disabilities. |
Charlotte School Safety Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce crime in the Nation’s schools by changing the attitudes and behaviors of students and encouraging them to act as agents of change with new skills and knowledge. |
Challenging College Alcohol Abuse |
Insufficient Evidence | A social norms and environmental management program that aims to a) correct misperceptions, increase knowledge, and change attitudes about alcohol and drug use behaviors among undergraduate students; b) change policies and practices related to alcohol and drug use and abuse among campus fraternity and sorority chapters; c) change faculty, administration, parental, community, and policymaker perceptions to prevent perpetuation of alcohol and drug myths; and d) to increase restrictions on alcohol availability and monitor on- and off-campus distribution and consumption. |
Challenge! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A manualized obesity prevention program that aims to reduce body mass and increase physical activity and healthy eating through individualized sessions and home and community activities. |
CEPIDEA |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to promote prosocial behavior among seventh graders through regular prosocial learning sessions and integration of prosocial material into classroom lessons. |
CeaseFire in South Carolina |
Insufficient Evidence | A crime prevention program that aims to reduce the prevalence of gun crime through targeted prosecution and increased public education. |
Caught in the Crossfire |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer-based violence prevention program designed to: a) prevent retaliatory violence in injured adolescents; b) reduce entry and reentry into the criminal justice system; c) reduce the total number of youth injured and killed by interpersonal violence; d) promote alternatives to violence for youth; and e) provide positive peer role models. |
Catch-Up Numeracy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mentoring program that aims to help struggling pupils improve their performance in mathematics. |
CATCH My Breath |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief, school-based program designed to prevent e-cigarette use initiation among middle school students by increasing social competence and refusal skills for prevention of tobacco use. |
Catch Kids Club |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to teach children the skills to make health dietary and physical activity choices at school, in the community, and at home through Youth Specialist interactions. |
CASASTART |
Inconclusive Evidence | A neighborhood-based strategy that aims to prevent drug use and delinquency among high-risk adolescents 11-13 years of age living in highly distressed neighborhoods. |
Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based sexual education program designed to reduce teenage pregnancy through the use of a comprehensive approach to foster youth development. |
Caring School Community (formerly Child Development Project) |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive classroom program designed to strengthen students’ connectedness to school in order to increase motivation for academic achievement while reducing delinquency, drug use, and violence. The program also strives to improve the school environment, enhance prosocial behavior, and boost children’s commitment to prosocial goals and values. |
Carescapes |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development training program that aims to improve the quality of home-based child-care and promote social competence and school readiness in children by training caregivers in responsiveness and monitoring skills. |
CareerStart |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal instructional program that aims to increase academic achievement among early adolescents by increasing student engagement through career relevant instruction. |
Career-Themed Programs of Study (POS) |
Insufficient Evidence | Legislatively-mandated programs designed to prepare upcoming high school graduates for college and a career. |
Career Beginnings |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that seeks to prepare youth for college and increase their enrollment and attendance in college and to prepare non-college-bound youth for vocational schooling. |
Care, Assess, Respond, Empower (CARE) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A brief school-based protocol designed to decrease suicidal behaviors and related risk factors among adolescents in high school through brief motivational counseling. |
Care Management Intervention for American Indian/Alaska Native Patients |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to provide culturally sensitive care management to physically injured American Indian and Alaska Native trauma survivors. |
CARE (school organization program) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school organization program designed to help schools define problems and set organizational goals. |
Cannabis Online Personalized Feedback |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online program that aims to reduce marijuana use and its negative consequences by translating survey responses into online individual personalized feedback on marijuana use. |
Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiment |
Insufficient Evidence | A restorative justice program designed to reduce recidivism among juvenile and adult offenders by offering an alternative sentence to traditional adjudication. |
Canadian Breathalyser Law |
Inconclusive Evidence | Legislation designed to deter driving under the influence of alcohol and reduce fatalities resulting from alcohol-related automobile accidents. |
California Smokers' Helpline |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief, telephone-based smoking cessation intervention that aims to increase abstinence rates and quit attempts through telephone counseling designed to help smokers develop successful coping strategies. |
Burn and Earn |
Insufficient Evidence | A recreational program that aims to maintain or decrease Body Mass Index (BMI) among first-year college students through the establishment of healthy exercise habits. |
Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment |
Inconclusive Evidence | An interim maintenance program that aims to improve compliance and reduce drug use among opiate-dependent individuals. |
Bullying Literature Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based bullying prevention program that aims to promote bystander intervention, adaptive sociocognitive processes, and positive social skills. |
Bully Proofing Your School |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based bullying prevention program designed to reduce bullying behaviors and increase students’ sense of safety at school by promoting protective skills, clear and consistent rules, zero tolerance for bullying, and mobilization of the “caring majority” of students. |
Bully Busters |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based psychoeducational prevention program designed to increase teacher knowledge of bullying intervention skills and self-efficacy and reduce classroom incidents of bullying by creating a safe learning environment. |
Bulli & Pupe (Bullies and Dolls) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce violence and aggression among adolescents by teaching participants about the negative effects of bullying and enhancing their empathy and perspective taking skills. |
Building Resiliency and Vocational Excellence (BRAVE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to address economic disadvantages and prevent adolescent involvement with alcohol, drugs, and violence. |
Building Resilience and Attachment in Vulnerable Adolescents (BRAVA) |
Under Review | A program designed to reduce the risk of suicide and related mental health problems by providing support to adolescents and their caregivers. |
Building Healthy Communities |
Insufficient Evidence | A schoolwide culture-change program aimed at preventing and decreasing obesity in elementary-school children. |
Building Blocks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mathematics curriculum development program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge among preschool students who are at increased risk of later failure in school. |
Building Assets-Reducing Risks (BARR) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to help incoming freshmen make a successful transition to high school by increasing attendance, decreasing behavioral problems, and improving academic performance. |
Building a Lasting Love (BALL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief violence prevention program designed to reduce relationship violence among inner-city African American adolescent girls. |
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