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 | ||
|---|---|---|
All Stars Challenge |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based behavior management program designed to help students understand social norms for getting along through structured weekly activities. |
All Stars |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to decrease high-risk behaviors such as substance use, violence, and premature sexual activity among early adolescents. |
All Children Excel (ACE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-faceted, multi-agency intervention approach that seeks to promote the healthy development of juvenile offenders under the age of 10 who are at risk for chronic, violent offending later in life. |
AlcoholEdu for College |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online harm reduction course that aims to prevent alcohol misuse among college freshmen. |
Alcohol Skills Training Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief intervention that aims to reduce risky drinking behavior among college students through various techniques that target inaccurate perceptions of peer drinking patterns, challenge alcohol expectancy, and promote self-monitoring alcohol use behavior. |
Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study |
Inconclusive Evidence | An alcohol prevention program designed to provide students with the social skills necessary to avoid alcohol misuse. |
Alcohol Intervention Group (AIG) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce the use of alcohol among adolescents through motivational interviewing techniques. |
Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices |
Insufficient Evidence | An early childhood curriculum designed to promote pro-social skill development, self-control, positive social interactions, problem-solving, healthy-decision making, and conflict resolution among young children. |
Aktion Glasklar |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based alcohol reduction program that aims to combat youth drinking in Germany through instruction designed to increase knowledge, attitudes, and refusal skills surrounding alcohol consumption. |
AIM 4 Teen Moms |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program combining individual home visits and group meetings to reduce unprotected sex and increase contraceptive use by fostering positive youth development. |
Aggressors, Victims & Bystanders |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence reduction program designed to change beliefs that lead to violent behavior and teach students skills to de-escalate situations that could become violent. |
Aggression Replacement Training (ART) |
Insufficient Evidence | A skill-based program that aims to reduce rates of recidivism, enhance community function, and teach alternative prosocial behaviors through skill acquisition, anger control, and enhanced moral reasoning. |
Aggression Replacement Training (Adult) |
Insufficient Evidence | A skill-based program that aims to reduce the risk of further violence and recidivism among violent offenders through the identification, development, and practice of social skills for prosocial behavior. |
After-School Physical Activity Program for Black Girls |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school program that aims to reduce obesity and improve physical fitness among children by encouraging engagement in healthy amounts of physical activity. |
Advancing School and Community Engagement Now for Disease Prevention (ASCEND) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based and family reinforced education program that aims to reduce and prevent childhood obesity and related social and medical issues through nutritional education and physical activity breaks. |
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) |
Insufficient Evidence | A set of elective high school courses designed to help students with mid-range academic performance and from traditionally underserved populations to graduate on time and enroll in college. |
Advanced Supervision and Intervention Support Team (ASIST) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison diversion program that targets recidivism and reincarceration among high risk offenders with mental illnesses. |
Adults in the Making (AIM) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce alcohol and substance use among African American youth by strengthening family bonds and enhancing self-regulatory processes. |
Adolescent Portable Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | An outpatient family-based service that aims to reduce substance abuse and recidivism among adolescents within the juvenile justice system. The program also aims to improve the educational, social, mental, and physical well-being of youth and their families. |
Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An outpatient prevention program that targets areas of deficit and vulnerability among adolescent substance abusers referred directly by law enforcement personnel for intervention. |
Adolescent Diversion Program (ADP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-visiting program designed as an alternative to legal proceedings that aims to reduce recidivism and improve family relations through regular visits from a family worker. |
Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based educational curriculum that aims to improve adolescent awareness and knowledge of depression in order to destigmatize the illness and increase help-seeking. |
Adolescent Decision-Making for the Positive Youth Development Collaboration (ADM-PYDC) |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school group program that attempts to boost decision-making and other substance use prevention skills and provide health education and cultural heritage skills in order to reduce substance use among adolescents. |
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An outpatient alcohol and substance abuse treatment program that aims to replace activities that support alcohol and drug use with positive behaviors that support recovery by promoting positive family and peer relationships. It also aims to motivate caregiver participation in the treatment process, to increase the caregiver’s support of the adolescent’s abstinence, to provide information to the caregiver about effective parenting practices, and to help the adolescent and caregiver create a home and community environment conducive to recovery. |
Adolescent Cessation of Tobacco: Independent of Nicotine (ACTION) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based tobacco abstinence skills program that seeks to promote tobacco use cessation through interactive games. |
Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial (AAPT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program that aims to provide adolescents with the behavioral skills necessary to refuse drug offers, correct erroneous perceptions about the prevalence and acceptability of adolescent substance use, and establish conservative group norms regarding substance use. |
Adolescence Cannabis Check-Up (ACCU) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A substance use prevention program that seeks to reduce the frequency of cannabis use among adolescents. |
ADHD Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based multi-component program designed to enable the appropriate responding of teachers to the educational expectations of students with ADHD. The program provides mainstream elementary school teachers with systematic training in behavioral modification and cognitive-behavioral techniques, as well as instructional management strategies. |
Addressing Substance-Related Offending (ASRO) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based program designed to reduce substance-related crime by targeting substance abuse among offenders serving community service sentences. |
Ada Sheriff's Youth Foundation (SYF) |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school enrichment program that aims to promote protective factors that guard against negative life outcomes among at-risk youth. These negative, life-affecting outcomes include: 1) delinquency; 2) dropping out of school; 3) illegal use of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco; 4) unwanted teenage pregnancy; and 5) being held back in school. |
Ada County Attendance Court |
Insufficient Evidence | A youth diversion program designed to reduce school truancy and tardiness, thereby decreasing the likelihood of dropout and future criminal offenses. |
Activity Knowledge Circuit |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based, cross-curricular physical activity intervention that aims to improve cardiovascular disease risk profiles among young adolescents by increasing in-school physical activity by two hours. |
Active Teaching |
Insufficient Evidence | A consultative intervention that aims to increase teacher effectiveness through video vignettes and textbooks. |
Active and Healthy Families |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component, family-centered, culturally- and linguistically-tailored intervention that aims to reduce obesity among Latino children. |
Action-Based Diversion of Juvenile Offenders |
Inconclusive Evidence | Various youth diversion programs that focus on strengthening positive behavioral norms and constructive social ties though 80 hours of one-on-one training with upper-division college students. |
ACT Out! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A psychodramatic intervention presented to students by professional actors to increase social-emotional competence and reduce bullying. |
ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids Program (ACT-PRSK) |
Insufficient Evidence | An interactive parent program that aims to reduce misbehavior among children and the use of violent disciplinary actions among parents by teaching family-based parenting skills and improving communication between parents and children. |
ACS Confirm |
Insufficient Evidence | A detention reduction program that aims to improve the amount of information made available to justice professionals, particularly judges, when deciding whether to detain a young person in foster care. In addition, the program seeks to reduce the disparity in detention between foster and non-foster children, as well as minimize placement transfers and use of emergency facilities for youth in foster care. |
Across Ages |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-setting treatment program that aims to promote community and individual resiliency among youth at risk for drug use. The program targets several domains, including the individual, family, school, peer, and community/neighborhood spheres. |
Achieving Behaving Caring Project (ABC) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A whole-class prevention program that aims to develop social skills among children at risk for emotional disturbance. The program includes whole class social skills instruction and teams consisting of parents, teachers, and guidance counselors who identify strengths and problems of the child and develop goals for the child. |
Achievement Mentoring - High School |
Inconclusive Evidence | A selective prevention program designed to enhance urban minority students’ school-related cognition and behaviors through adult mentoring and positive behavioral reinforcements. |
Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide training and support program that aims to reduce dropout rates and increase school engagement and achievement by working closely with students and parents. |
Accumulated Brisk Walking Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to change the body composition of children through short bouts of brisk walking accumulated across a 15-week period. |
Access to Inspiration and Motivation (AIM) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program that attempts to build skills among early adolescents through outdoor activities, academic studies, and community service. |
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, often in rural areas, that do not typically offer Algebra I in grade 8. |
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A psychotherapy intervention that aims to promote psychological flexibility and discourage psychological suffering through acceptance and mindfulness practices. |
Accelerated Reader |
Insufficient Evidence | A web-based intervention that encourages independent reading among early adolescents. |
ACCEL |
Insufficient Evidence | A substance abuse prevention program that primarily targets African American children and families living in poverty. |
Acadiana Coalition of Teens Against Tobacco (ACTT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based drug prevention program that seeks to reduce the use of tobacco among high school students, specifically targeting 30-day cessation rates. |
Academy for Community Education |
Inconclusive Evidence | An alternative school that combines intensive basic skills training with a community-based vocational apprenticeship program to increase students’ commitment to education and academic achievement. |
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