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 | ||
|---|---|---|
WAVES (West Midlands ActiVe lifestyle and healthy Eating in School) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 12-month school-based intervention that encourages healthy eating and physical activity to reduce childhood obesity. |
Wayne County Intensive Probation Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An alternative at-home sentencing option for juveniles who would otherwise be committed to correctional institutions with the goal of reducing recidivism and lowering the overall number of youth committed to incarceration by the state. |
We Have Skills! (WHS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A video-based program that is implemented by elementary classroom teachers. The goal is to increase primary students’ prosocial behaviors through the teaching of social skills. |
Weed and Seed |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based strategy to reduce violent and drug-related crime by targeting and weeding out violent offenders and drug dealers, planting seeds of change in the community, and fostering community policing. |
Well-Being Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | An 8-week school-based program to improve levels of psychological well-being among early-adolescents in areas of autonomy, personal growth, environmental mastery, purpose in life, positive relations, and self-acceptance. |
Wellness, Academics, & You (WAY) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based 6-month program that uses physical education and activity, nutritional guidance, and family and peer interactions to help children better understand wellness, lose weight, adopt healthy lifestyles, and improve learning. |
Wells-Goodfellow (WGF) Focused Deterrence Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | A police-led community initiative combining various enforcement and prevention efforts to reduce gun violence and other forms of aggression. |
Why Joints? (xkpts.com) |
Insufficient Evidence | A 4-session classroom-based program for adolescents that uses a variety of activities and materials to prevent youth from using marijuana. |
Wisconsin Early Intervention (WEI) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program for kindergarten and elementary students with the goal of reducing problem social behavior such as internalizing and externalizing. |
Wise Guys |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program with the goal of reducing teenage pregnancy by delaying the initiation of sexual intercourse among adolescent males and increasing abstinence amongst those already sexually active. |
Woodrock Youth Development Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program to reduce the incidence of drug abuse among at-risk elementary and middle-school minority youth; raise awareness about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use (ATOD); promote healthy attitudes regarding resistance to ATOD use; improve the quality of race relations; and improve students’ self-esteem. |
Word Generation |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based intervention for middle school students that aims to improve academic vocabulary knowledge and use. |
Working to Insure and Nurture Girls’ Success (WINGS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A program consisting of home visitation and center-based services that aims to reduce the number of adolescent girls entering or continuing in the juvenile justice system. The program supports and empowers them and their families to access and receive appropriate services. |
World of Words (WOW) |
Insufficient Evidence | A preschool program that aims to improve the word knowledge and conceptual development of preschool children through the use of taxonomic categorization and embedded multimedia. Lessons use video, audio, and pictures to extend students’ use of new vocabulary to describe things, solve problems, and draw generalizations and inferences. |
Wraparound Services Model – Columbus, Ohio |
Insufficient Evidence | A wraparound services program for youth with complex needs and their families that aims to reduce subsequent arrests, school absences, school expulsion or suspension, running away from home, detention by police, and assaultive behaviors. |
Wraparound Services Model – Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Insufficient Evidence | A multipronged program to provide effective treatment and reduce out-of-home care for emotionally disturbed and delinquent youth with experience in the juvenile justice system. The program aims to reduce serious emotional, mental health and behavioral issues in this population. |
Yale Child Welfare Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A multipronged program for infants and their families that includes home visitation, pediatric care, daycare, and psychological services with the goal of supporting effective family functioning in high risk families. The program aims to impact child behavioral and psychological outcomes and family socioeconomics, among others. |
Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A multifaceted program that includes school-wide assemblies, peer leadership training, teacher training, outreach and education activities, and the implementation of a hotline toward the goal of increasing help-seeking for and by suicidal youth. |
YMCA Youth Institute |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive, year-round, community-based program for low-income, culturally diverse, urban high school youth. Aims include promoting readiness for higher education or career entry, improving academic achievement, stimulating interest in higher education, and ensuring that participants remain engaged in their schools and communities. |
Young People’s Development Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based, year-round teen pregnancy prevention program that offers youth development activities, sexuality education, substance misuse education, and referral to mental health and medical services including contraceptives. |
Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that engages middle school students in community change projects in order to enhance positive youth development. Specific goals include increased community involvement, self-efficacy, and prosocial behavior. |
Youth Matters |
Insufficient Evidence | A set of curricula for students in grades K-12 that use a series of age appropriate modules to reduce bullying, aggressive behavior, and victimization by emphasizing the negative consequences, improving prosocial attitudes, increasing self-efficacy, and enhancing social bonds. |
Youth Safe Haven |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based after-school program that seeks to generate positive changes in grades, attitudes, and behaviors among low-income and disadvantaged youth by partnering police officers with civilians in advocacy, mentoring, and tutoring initiatives. |
Zero In On Prevention Student Assistance Program (ZIP-SAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce drug use and antisocial behavior among the secondary school population. |
Zippy’s Friends |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to increase the coping repertoire of children between the ages of 6 and 8 by providing them with strategies to handle problems and emotional events. |
Abecedarian Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | An educational assistance program that aims to provide high-risk children from severely disadvantaged families with early educational experiences to encourage success in school and improve well-being in young adulthood. |
Access to Algebra I |
Not Dissemination Ready | An online math program designed to 1) prepare students for more advanced mathematics courses in high school and college by allowing them to take Algebra I in grade 8 and 2) broaden access in schools that do not typically offer Algebra I in grade 8. |
Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A drug prevention and health promotion program that deters substance use among high school adolescents in school sponsored athletics by educating youth on the harms of anabolic steroids, alcohol, and other drug use and promoting sports nutrition and exercise. |
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. |
Classroom Centered Intervention |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based intervention designed to reduce the proximal targets of poor achievement, concentration problems, aggression, and shy behaviors by enhancing teachers’ behavior management and instructional skills. |
Cognitive Behavioral Prevention Program for Depression |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based intervention designed to prevent depression among at-risk adolescents with non-clinical symptoms of depression through cognitive restructuring and problem-solving techniques. |
Comprehension Circuit Training (Electronic Delivery Format) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component reading intervention translated to electronic-tablet delivery format and designed to accelerate foundational reading skills and reading comprehension. |
Descubriendo la Lectura |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based tutoring program designed to improve the literacy skills of bilingual first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write in bilingual classrooms. The program is the reconstruction of Reading Recovery in Spanish. |
eBody Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-session, online intervention designed to prevent the onset of eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating among young women with body image concerns. |
Families Talking Together |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program designed to prevent sexual risk behavior among Latino and African American young adults through a parent-based intervention. |
Fast Track |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component intervention designed to prevent antisocial behavior in at-risk children. |
FOCUS: Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unwanted Pregnancies among Young Women |
Not Dissemination Ready | A program designed to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies (UPs) in young, sexually active women. |
Full-Day Prekindergarten |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program of full-day Prekindergarten aimed at increasing school readiness. |
H&R Block College Financial Aid Application Assistance |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial aid application assistance program for lower-income teenagers and their families provided at H&R block offices. |
Healthy Weight |
Not Dissemination Ready | A one-time intervention program for adolescent females with body image concerns aimed at preventing eating disorders and obesity. |
Learning Accounts |
Not Dissemination Ready | A financial-incentive program designed for high school students that provides an early guarantee of a grant worth up to $8,000 for post-secondary education, conditional on high school completion. |
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component program that aims to decrease antisocial behavior and increase their prosocial behavior in children by targeting the family, school, and peer domains. |
Literacy Express |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program that aims to improve preschool emergent literacy among both Spanish-speaking English language learners and English-speaking children, using teacher-led small groups and a designated curriculum. |
Making Pre-K Count + High 5s |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge for low-income kindergarten students. |
Midwestern Prevention Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A comprehensive community-based program designed to decrease the rates of onset and prevalence of drug use (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana) in young adolescents (aged 10-15) and to decrease drug use among parents and other residents of intervention communities. |
Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability |
Not Dissemination Ready | A community-based program that aims to prevent recidivism among sexual offenders through support provided by 4-6 community volunteers during the reentry period after prison. |
MyTeachingPartner-Secondary |
Not Dissemination Ready | A professional development program for secondary level teachers that focuses on motivating and enhancing teachers’ daily interactions with students to improve student academic performance. |
New Beginnings (for children of divorce) – Dual Component Version |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based intervention for divorced parents and their children to promote resilience in children after parental divorce. |
One Summer Plus (OSP) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A youth employment program designed to reduce adolescent crime by providing youth with summertime work and socio-emotional learning opportunities. |
Organizational Skills Training |
Not Dissemination Ready | A clinic-based program designed to ameliorate organization, time management, and planning difficulties in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and thereby improve behavior and academic functioning. |
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