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 | ||
|---|---|---|
The Media Initiative For Children: Respecting Difference Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to promote positive attitudes towards racial, religious, sociocultural, and physical differences for young children, their parents, and early years practitioners through one-minute cartoon television broadcasts. |
Therapeutic Communities for Drug Use (Practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | A residential drug treatment program in correctional or residential community settings for treating substance-abusing and addicted offenders with the overall goal of reducing recidivism in therapeutic communities. |
Think Time Strategy |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to decrease the amount of time and number of incidents of students displaying disruptive behavior at school by increasing opportunities to have positive social interactions among teachers and fellow students. |
Thinking for a Change |
Insufficient Evidence | An adult corrections-based intervention to prevent adult recidivism by helping offenders recognize their own cognitive distortions and understand the role of these distortions in criminal behavior. |
Three Strikes Laws- Analysis of impact on crime rates |
Insufficient Evidence | A policy intended to deter and incapacitate high-rate recidvist offenders and lower overall crime rates through targeting high-level offenders for incarceration, incarcerate repeat offenders, and reduce sentencing discretion. |
TIGER (Kanjertraining) |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent-training intervention designed to activate children’s intrinsic intention to behave prosocially and make them aware of their responsibility for their own behavior, reducing externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. |
TimeWise: Learning Lifelong Leisure Skills |
Insufficient Evidence | A curriculum-based intervention developed to promote personal development through healthy leisure engagement, preventing the onset of substance abuse and other unhealthy behavior among rural middle school youth. |
Timid to Tiger |
Insufficient Evidence | A mental health intervention designed to reduce anxiety in children. |
Too Good For Drugs (Elementary School) |
Insufficient Evidence | A comprehensive, school-based intervention to reduce drug, alcohol, and tobacco use in elementary school children through instruction on the harmful effects of drugs and skills for emotional competency, social and resistance, and goal setting and decision making. |
Too Good for Drugs and Violence (High School) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention intended to reduce risk factors and build protective factors against drug use and violence through educating students in social and emotional competencies. |
Transcendental Meditation |
Insufficient Evidence | A prison-based program designed to reduce recidivism through teaching transcendental meditation. |
Tri-Agency Resource Gang Enforcement Team (TARGET) |
Insufficient Evidence | A selective incarceration program designed to reduce gang influenced criminal behavior by targeting the most active, hardcore members of gangs. |
Triple P – Hassle Free Mealtimes |
Insufficient Evidence | A parent-training program designed to decrease problem behaviors at mealtime among children by altering parenting to promote positive behavior change. |
Triple P Online Brief |
Insufficient Evidence | A low-intensity, self-administered online parenting program designed to enhance family protective factors and to reduce risk factors associated with severe behavioral and emotional problems in preadolescent children. |
Truancy Court: Jefferson County (Louisville, KY) |
Insufficient Evidence | A cooperative intervention between judges, the community, and schools designed to address the causes of truancy specific to individuals, thereby diminishing/eliminating truancy altogether. |
Truant Recovery Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A police-delivered program designed to reduce truancy through coordination with schools and more aggressive monitoring of attendance. |
True Love |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program intended to reduce dating violence in teenagers through skills instruction at both the school and individual level. |
Trust-Based Relational Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A trauma-informed, attachment-based parent training intervention aimed at reducing behavioral problems and trauma symptoms in at-risk adopted children. |
Tulsa (CAP) Head Start Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An early childhood education program that aims to enhance the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families. |
Tulsa Universal Pre-K Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An early education program intended to improve school readiness through high quality instruction with a focus on teacher retention and student performance. |
Turkish Preschool Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A summer school program intended to improve the school readiness of six-year-old children from mono and multi lingual disadvantaged environments by focusing on the physical, cognitive, linguistic and social-emotional components of children’s development. |
Turning Point: Rethinking Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A court-ordered counseling program designed to prevent recidivism among first-time violent offenders through group therapy and family involvement. |
Tweenees |
Insufficient Evidence | An in-class presentation program intended to reduce child sexual abuse by enabling children to develop their self-protective knowledge, share their thoughts and feelings about abuse, and disclose their stories of harm both within and beyond classroom lessons. |
UNC Academic Summer Bridge Program (UNC SB) |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive academic summer bridge program to help at-risk youth successfully transition to higher education. Goals include increased enrollment, permanence, and graduation rates in higher education settings. |
UNICOR (In-prison employment practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | This practice uses in-prison work and vocational training to reduce post-release recidivism and increase post-release employment. |
Unique Minds School Program (UMSP) |
Insufficient Evidence | An elementary school curriculum that seeks to prevent youth behavioral problems and promote academic learning by developing a positive classroom climate and helping students with self-efficacy, problem solving, and social-emotional competence. |
United States Air Force Suicide Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A population-oriented risk reduction program to decrease the suicide rate among Air Force personnel. |
Universal School-based Mental Health Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to lower anxiety, increase coping skills, and strengthen problem solving strategies among children aged 9 to 10. |
University of Texas Sexual Attitudes Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A program that seeks to reduce sexual risk taking, HIV infection, and adolescent pregnancy by strengthening family interactions while providing relevant educational information. |
Urban Improv |
Insufficient Evidence | An interactive theater-based program that seeks to reduce youth violence among at-risk inner city students by preparing them to cope with potentially violent conflict situations and explore alternative solutions. |
Urban Women Against Substance Abuse (UWASA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to reduce risk-taking behaviors by improving girls’ self-concept. The program focuses on developing participants’ understanding of gender and cultural identity and history, strengthening communication with mothers, developing culturally appropriate prevention education and group norms, and reinforcing those norms through action. |
URMEL-ICE |
Insufficient Evidence | A year-long curriculum for second grade students that seeks to reduce obesity. |
Utrecht Healthy School |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program to improve a wide range of health-related outcomes in adolescents. Target areas include nutrition, sexual health, alcohol/substance use, bullying, and sedentary behavior. |
Valued Youth Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A dropout prevention program for high school students that involves engaging at-risk youth as tutors for younger students. |
Values Initiative Teaching About Lifestyle (VITAL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent excess weight gain in young children by teaching about healthy eating and engaging in physical activity. |
Vernetzte www.Welten |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based instructional module to prevent gambling in adolescents. |
VIBeS Plus |
Insufficient Evidence | A home visitation program to improve the cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development of children born preterm and to decrease the anxiety and depression of their caregivers. |
Victim Offender Mediation Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A mediation program that brings victims and offenders together for face-to-face dialogue, negotiation, and problem solving with the goal of a fair system processing for both parties. The program further aims to increase the likelihood of restitution completion and reduce recidivism. |
Vienna Social Competence Training (ViSC) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that seeks to prevent adolescent bullying and aggressive behavior by increasing students’ social competence and improving their understanding of conflict. |
Village Model of Care for Urban African American Youth |
Insufficient Evidence | An after school group mentoring and community outreach program that aims to reduce substance use, prevent violent behavior, delay sexual activity, and improve social skills among middle school students. The program involves both youth and their caregivers and emphasizes remedial education and an appreciation of African American cultural heritage with the aim of promoting school bonding, social skills development, and greater academic achievement. |
Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents |
Insufficient Evidence | A school or community-based curriculum to reduce youth violence by improving adolescents’ knowledge about violence while teaching effective methods to handle conflict. |
Violence Prevention Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A semester-long school-wide curriculum to reduce youth violence through a series of flexible age and context appropriate lessons. |
Violence Unseen |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based program to raise awareness and reduce the prevalence of indirect and relational aggression in elementary school children and teachers. |
Virginia Preschool Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | An intiative to make preschool education and related services available for at-risk children who may not otherwise have access. |
Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based threat assessment program aiming to prevent violence, increase the use of mental health services toward conflict resolution, increase parental involvement in resolving threats, and return students who make threats to school without long-term suspension or alternative school placement. |
Virtual Infant Parenting (VIP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed for adolescent girls with the goal of delaying pregnancy in the teenage years and improving knowledge and awareness of preconception health issues. |
VisionQuest |
Insufficient Evidence | A comprehensive program that uses challenging outdoor experiences and group home settings to reduce youth recidivism, both in terms of frequency and severity of criminal behavior. |
VOICES |
Insufficient Evidence | A trauma-informed and gender-responsive intervention that aims to prevent substance misuse and other risky behaviors by promoting strengths and resilience, coping strategies, and positive interpersonal relationships. |
Voyager Reading Programs |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program implemented by regular classroom teachers that aims to develop literacy skills and reading proficiency for early readers and struggling readers at different age levels. |
Walk away, Ignore, Talk, Seek help (W.I.T.S.) |
Insufficient Evidence | An elementary school program to promote prosocial behaviors and reduce levels of peer victimization in schools and classrooms by creating an environment in which children learn about and use strategies for handling conflicts with peers. |
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