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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Bridges to High School Program/Projecto Puentes a la Secundaria |
Under Review | A family-focused program for adolescents that builds youth and family competencies to improve emotional well-being and academics and reduce substance use following the transition to middle school. This is a culturally sensitive intervention specifically designed to be used with families of Mexican descent (both U.S.-born and immigrant families). |
Bridge to Kindergarten plus Self-Regulation (B2K + RLPL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A kindergarten readiness summer program that aims to increase academic readiness skills among children who have not had previous preschool experiences. |
Breakthrough to Literacy (BTL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A language and literacy program designed to improve the school readiness and literacy of children three through six years of age. Specifically, the program aims to improve children’s alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and word recognition. |
Breaking the Silence New Mexico |
Insufficient Evidence | The Breaking the Silence New Mexico curriculum focuses on the education of middle and high school students about myths surrounding mental illness/suicide and the warning signs of mental illness/suicide. It also provides resources for students seeking support. The program goals include increasing student knowledge and attitudinal changes about mental illness and decreasing stigma of mental illness. |
Breaking the Cycle |
Insufficient Evidence | A diversion program that aims to reduce drug use and recidivism among substance-involved criminal offenders while simultaneously providing relief to the regular court system. |
Breakfast After-the-Bell |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that provides breakfast during regular school as a way to reduce absenteeism. |
Break the Cycle’s Ending Violence Curriculum |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent intimate partner violence through a curriculum designed to increase awareness, education, and the likelihood that youth will seek help when experiencing such violence. |
BrainPower |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based attribution retraining program that aims to reduce aggression among at-risk children. |
Brainology |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-delivered growth-mindset intervention that aims to help middle school students stay on track academically. |
Brabant Smoking Prevention Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to prevent smoking among early adolescents who are in the initial and experimental stages of tobacco use. |
Boys Town’s Common Sense Parenting |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to reduce future child abuse and neglect among parents with a history of child abuse. The program also aims to reduce developmental and behavioral problems in children who are abused and neglected. |
Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based universal prevention program that aims to reduce behavioral problems among at-risk youth by increasing their exposure to and involvement in prosocial activities, norms, and values. |
Boys and Girls Club Project Learn (Educational Enhancement Program) |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that aims to improve academic performance among early adolescents living in publicly subsidized housing. |
Boys and Girls Club Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based gang prevention and reduction program that aims to help at-risk youth stay out of the gang lifestyle and assist youth already involved in a gang reduce their gang-associated behaviors and values. |
Boston Reentry Initiative |
Inconclusive Evidence | An inter-agency initiative aims to reduce recidivism among former violent felons by helping them find treatment and develop vocational skills that will enable a successful transition from corrections back to their original neighborhoods. |
Boston Public Schools Prekindergarten Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | To provide a prekindergarten option within a public K-12 school system with the aim of preparing children for school and to help attract families to the district who might otherwise leave or choose other options. |
Border Binge-Drinking Reduction Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based intervention designed to reduce alcohol-related incidents and binge drinking among American teens in the San Diego-Tijuana region through public education and alliances between law enforcement and researchers. |
Bookstart Plus |
Insufficient Evidence | A book-gifting program that aims to promote reading by changing parental attitudes and encouraging parents to share and read books with their children. |
Bookstart |
Insufficient Evidence | A book-gifting program that aims to establish the foundations for early literacy and later learning by encouraging parents to share books with their children. |
Body Project (Middle School) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A dissonance-based group intervention that aims to reduce eating disorder symptoms and risk factors among female middle school students with body image concerns, thereby preventing the onset of eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. |
Big Brothers Big Sisters School-based Mentoring Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mentoring program that aims to: 1) reduce antisocial behaviors; 2) improve academic performance, attitudes, behaviors, and peer and family relationships; 3) strengthen students’ self-concept; and 4) provide social and cultural enrichment. |
Bicultural Competence Skills Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to prevent tobacco, alcohol, and drug use among Native American adolescents by teaching social skills in a way that blends the adaptive values and roles of the Native and popular American cultures. |
beyondblue |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce depressive symptoms among students finishing high school. |
Beyond Blame |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence prevention program that aims to improve knowledge and beliefs related to media use and reduce aggressive behavior among middle school students. |
Better Choices |
Insufficient Evidence | A skills training program that aims to: 1) provide juvenile courts with a self-sustaining educational intervention for juvenile offenders; 2) teach participants decision-making and anger-management skills in a step-by-step format; and 3) reduce recidivism rates among juvenile offenders. |
Better Beginnings, Better Futures |
Insufficient Evidence | An initiative that funds community-based programs with three primary goals: 1) to prevent serious social, emotional, behavioral, physical, and cognitive problems in young children; 2) to promote the development of children in high risk neighborhoods; and 3) to improve the ability of socioeconomically disadvantaged families and communities to provide for their children. |
Bethlehem Police Family Group Conferencing Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A restorative justice program designed to effectively deal with young first-time offenders by diverting them from court and involving their extended families and victims in group conferencing. |
Bethesda Day Treatment Center: Intensive Aftercare |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based indicated prevention program designed to reintegrate troubled or delinquent youth into their communities following completion of the day treatment program or release from institutional placement. |
Bethesda Day Treatment Center: Alternative Education Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based selective prevention program that aims to promote self-esteem and academic performance among children in alternative education programs. |
BEST MOOD |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to reduce depressive symptoms and promote family cohesion and healthy attachments in adolescents through family-based group therapy sessions delivered by therapists in a multi-family setting. |
BEST in CLASS |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based, teacher-training intervention designed to assist children in building social and behavioral competence skills and improving success in school. |
Benzies & Batchies |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce sexual harassment among adolescents through the presentation of a play, teaching lessons, and encouraging discussion. |
Behavioral Training for Preschool Children |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce disruptive, shy, and withdrawn behavior and promote social-emotional competence among preschoolers. |
Behavioral Couples Therapy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A treatment program that aims to improve marital relationships and reduce substance abuse among men with substance-use problems. |
Behavior Support Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide behavioral support and discipline program that aims to reduce school detentions. |
Befriending Anti-Bullying Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based bullying prevention program that aims to develop behavioral awareness among children through a befriending model that supports their ability to offer support to the victims of bullying. |
Becoming Independent |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce the antecedents of health risk behavior (e.g., bullying, internalizing, and externalizing) through life skills training. |
Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An HIV prevention program designed to promote access to information and refusal skills to increase abstinence and reduce or eliminate risky sexual behaviors among African American adolescents. |
Becoming a Man (Juvenile Detention) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A juvenile justice program that aims to reduce recidivism among delinquent youth through treatment received while in juvenile detention. |
Becoming a Man |
Inconclusive Evidence | A violence prevention program that aims to reduce criminal behavior and improve school outcomes among disadvantaged male youth. |
Be Under Your Own Influence: American Indian |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to delay substance use initiation among American Indian youth through media-based communications. |
Be the Exception |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multimedia intervention designed to delay the onset of sexual behavior and decrease sexual risk factors among adolescents in middle school. |
BE smokeFREE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A classroom-based program designed to enhance self-efficacy in coping with pressure and reduce rates of smoking among high school students. |
Be smart against cancer! |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote awareness of cancer-related risk factors and intentions to engage in protective behavior, with the ultimate goal of participants embracing healthy behaviors later in life. |
Be Smart – Don’t Start (also known as Smokefree Competition) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based smoking prevention program that aims to delay or prevent the onset of smoking among adolescents. |
Be Active Eat Well (BAEW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce the body weight of children by supporting community promotion of healthy eating and physical activity. |
Be A Star Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to impact risk and factors that influence drug and alcohol use in adolescents. |
Backdoor Electronic Monitoring |
Insufficient Evidence | Aims to reduce adult recidivism through an early prison release program with electronic monitoring. |
B.U.I.L.D. (Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership) |
Insufficient Evidence | A gang prevention program consisting of four different components, including a gang prevention curriculum and after-school activities, as well as counseling in education and employment. |
Avon Park Youth Academy and Street Smart (APYA/SS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive vocational and educational training program that aims to promote life and community living skills and provide education and job training to facilitate self-sufficiency and a pro-social lifestyle. These goals are achieved by providing “real world” work experience and training on independent living skills within a normalized environment. |
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