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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Penn Resiliency Program |
Not Dissemination Ready | A group-based cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to reduce depressive symptoms among middle-school students. |
Positive Family Support |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family-based, 3-tiered intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior and risk for substance abuse and depression and improve family management practices and communication skills, as well as adolescents’ self-regulation skills and prosocial behaviors. |
Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics Tutorial (PKMT) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-based program targeting pre-K students scoring in the lowest quartile for mathematics to improve their performance in mathematics. |
Prime Time |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-component youth development program designed to reduce pregnancy risk and aggression among high-risk adolescent girls. |
Project Northland |
Not Dissemination Ready | A multi-level program designed to reduce teen alcohol use through classroom curricula, peer leadership, youth-driven extra-curricular activities, parent involvement programs, and community activism. |
Promise Academy |
Not Dissemination Ready | A K-8 charter school that intends to improve student achievement through a program of academic rigor, student support, and non-academic services. |
Resilience Triple P |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family counseling program intended to reduce childhood bullying and enhance emotional resilience through facilitative parenting training and social and emotional skills training for children. |
SAFE (Schools and Families Educating) Children |
Not Dissemination Ready | A family intervention designed to prevent later drug abuse by helping 5 to 6 year old children make the transition to elementary school, have a successful first year, and set a strong base for the future. |
Safer California Universities |
Not Dissemination Ready | An environmental or community-based prevention program designed to reduce the likelihood and incidence of university student intoxication at off-campus settings through enforcement of drinking regulations and publicity regarding problem drinking. |
Seattle Social Development Project |
Not Dissemination Ready | A school-wide program intended to reduce school failure, drug abuse, and delinquency by enhancing students’ opportunities, skills and rewards in the classroom and at home. |
SPARK |
Not Dissemination Ready | An early-grade family-school-community partnership model that uses one-on-one tutoring and family engagement strategies across two school years to improve students’ reading and literacy skills and school attendance. |
SpellRead |
Not Dissemination Ready | A comprehensive reading intervention for struggling readers in grades 3 and 5 that integrates the five essential elements of reading instruction: phonemic awareness (sound processing), phonics (sound-letter relationships), fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Wisconsin Scholars Grant |
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. |
Young Adult Internship Program |
Not Dissemination Ready | A workforce development program intended to help young adults gain long-term, stable employment through an internship and other support services. |
Accelerate, Complete, Engage (ACE) |
Under Review | A post-secondary support program that aims to promote bachelor’s degree attainment in college students through comprehensive advisement and career development provided by dedicated advisors. |
Anti-Smoking Advertising |
Under Review | A systematic review of anti-smoking advertising methods and their varying effects on youth when offered in conjunction with other tobacco control strategies. |
Arrowhead Business Group |
Under Review | A strengths-based, multi-session entrepreneurship education program for adolescents from under-resourced communities that fosters adolescent connectedness to caring adults, healthy peers, and school and aims to improve behavioral health and foster economic development. This is a culturally sensitive intervention that was co-created through a tribal-university partnership between the White Mountain Apache Tribe in northeastern Arizona and the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. |
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). |
eNew Beginnings Program |
Under Review | A web-based program for separated and divorced families that aims to improve parent-child relationship quality and decrease child mental health problems. |
Enhanced Language and Literacy Success (ELLS) |
Under Review | A preschool program that aims to foster the language and literacy development of 4-year-old children from low-income homes. |
enhancing Missouri’s Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies (eMINTS) |
Under Review | An intensive professional development program designed to help teachers develop student-centered, purposeful instruction fostered by technology utilization. |
Fathers for Change (F4C) |
Under Review | A fatherhood-focused intervention designed to reduce intimate partner violence and child maltreatment by improving emotion regulation and reflective functioning in fathers. |
Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens (FHF-T) |
Under Review | A mentoring program for 8th and 9th grade youth with child welfare involvement aimed to prevent and/or reduce delinquency and juvenile justice involvement. |
Group Treatment for Childhood Obesity |
Under Review | A family group training program that aims to promote healthy lifestyles and well-being in obese children. |
Hot Spot Policing (Practice) |
Under Review | A program for crime reduction that focuses on a small number of high-activity crime places and aims to be proactive rather than reactive in crime reduction. |
Impact of Drinking Age Law |
Under Review | A policy to increase the legal age for purchasing alcohol from 18 to 21 in order to reduce youths’ alcohol use and impaired driving behaviors. |
InsideTrack |
Under Review | A program for college students that aims to promote academic engagement and retention through individualized mentoring delivered by coaches via phone, email, text messaging or social media. |
INSIGHTS into Children’s Temperament |
Under Review | A multi-component school-based program that aims to support attentional and behavioral self-regulation and improve academic outcomes in children. |
KIPP Charter Schools – Secondary |
Under Review | The charter secondary schools seek to dramatically improve student academic achievement by engaging students and parents in the educational process, expanding the time and effort students devote to their studies, and reinforcing students’ social competencies and positive behaviors. |
Letting Go and Staying Connected |
Under Review | An interactive parent-adolescent handbook intervention designed to provide parents with strategies to decrease first-year college student risk behaviors by increasing family protective factors. |
Linking Information and Families Together (LIFT) |
Under Review | A program aimed to lower rates of adolescent substance use in middle school by providing parents with information about their child’s academic performance and behavior. |
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program |
Under Review | A tobacco control program that aims at: 1) preventing young people from using tobacco products by educating them and reducing their access to tobacco products; 2) persuading and helping smokers to quit smoking; and 3) protecting non-smokers by reducing their exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). |
Nuestras Familias: Andando Entre Culturas (Our Families: Moving Between Cultures) |
Under Review | A parent training program for Spanish-speaking Hispanic or Latino families with middle school-aged youth residing in the United States in an emerging immigration context to help their adolescent children respond effectively to the risks of substance use and unsafe sexual behavior. |
Opening the World of Learning (OWL) Building Blocks PreKindergarten Program |
Under Review | A prekindergarten program designed to improve children’s mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills. |
Per Scholas |
Under Review | A training and internship program that prepares those with a high school diploma or GED for well-paying jobs in the IT industry. |
Smartphone App to Reduce Drinking |
Under Review | A program to reduce unhealthy alcohol use among college students through the use of a smartphone app. |
Strive Weekly |
Under Review | An online, synchronized, group-level, universal program to prevent anxiety and depression among college students. |
Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (TOPP) |
Under Review | A nurse-delivered intervention intended to reduce rapid repeat pregnancies and sexual risk behavior among low-income, pregnant, and postpartum adolescent females using motivational interviewing techniques with contraceptive access. |
Text Messaging to Reduce Absenteeism |
Under Review | A text-messaging program for parents that aims to reduce absenteeism among elementary school children. |
Three Generation Study (Home-Based Mentoring for Pregnant Teens) |
Under Review | A home-based intervention aimed at preventing adolescents who have children from having further children through counseling from women with similar experiences. |
Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II) |
Under Review | A social support program that aims to supplement routine care for suicidal adolescents following psychiatric hospitalization by providing psychoeducation to youth-nominated adult social support providers. |
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