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:
1247 Programs
| Brief Description | ||
|---|---|---|
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
beyondblue |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce depressive symptoms among students finishing high school. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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. |
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. |
BrainPower |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based attribution retraining program that aims to reduce aggression among at-risk children. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 grounded intervention specifically designed to be used with families of Mexican descent (both U.S.-born and immigrant families). |
Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | An indicated prevention program designed to help recent trauma survivors and assault victims cope with post-assault symptoms and prevent the development of additional chronic symptoms. |
Brief Curriculum to Promote Condom and Health Care Use |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based intervention designed to promote positive attitudes toward health care, improve knowledge of STDs, and promote safe sexual behavior among Latino and Black men. |
Brief Intervention (BI) for Truant Youth |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home-based alcohol prevention and treatment program that aims to promote abstinence and prevent relapse among drug- and alcohol-using adolescents through the development of adaptive beliefs and problem-solving skills. |
Brief Motivational Intervention (Stepped Care) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An alcohol prevention program designed to reduce the frequency of drinking and alcohol-related problems among college students who do not respond to initial, low intensity treatment. |
Brief Motivational Intervention vs Alcohol 101 Plus Interactive Computer Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based brief motivational intervention that aims to reduce drinking and related problems among college students sanctioned for alcohol violations. |
Brief Parent Training (BPT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-based manualized intervention designed to promote effective and positive parenting skills to prevent the escalation of child conduct problems. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: Basic Profile |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce alcohol use, including peak blood alcohol concentration, the number of drinks consumed per week, heavy episodic drinking, and the number of alcohol and drug related problems among college-aged young adults. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: Computerized |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based personalized feedback intervention designed to decrease alcohol use among college students through brief reports on personal drinking habits that include normative education and information about the personal costs of excessive drinking. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: Normative Emphasis |
Inconclusive Evidence | A web-based alcohol intervention designed to decrease problem drinking among college students through personalized normative feedback, which reduces the overestimated normative perceptions of peers’ drinking and, therefore, adjusts perceptions of personal drinking habits. |
Brief Personalized Drinking Feedback: With Motivational Interviewing |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based counseling program that aims to reduce heavy drinking among college students. |
Brief Psychoeducational Parenting Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based brief psychoeducational program that aims to reduce negative parent-child interactions and thereby reduce aggression and other negative behavioral outcomes among children. |
Brief Sleep Intervention |
Insufficient Evidence | A home-based training program that aims to promote academic performance and the transition to school through behavioral strategies designed to improve sleep. |
Brief Strategic Family Therapy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family-focused intervention designed to improve youths’ behavioral problems by improving family interactions that are presumed to be directly related to the children’s symptoms. |
Bright Beginnings |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum that aims to improve math, reading, and language skills in children three through five years of age by providing instruction that addresses the cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development of young children. |
Bright Start |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce excessive weight gain among children of American Indian descent by increasing physical activity and healthy eating habits during kindergarten and first grade. |
Brooklyn Mediation |
Insufficient Evidence | An adult crime prevention program that aims to reduce recidivism in interpersonal crime by mediating the dispute between the defendant and the complainant. |
Bucharest Early Intervention Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Buddy System |
Inconclusive Evidence | A behavior modification system that aims to reduce delinquency among adolescents 11-17 years of age with behavioral problems. |
Building a Lasting Love (BALL) |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief violence prevention program designed to reduce relationship violence among inner-city African American adolescent girls. |
Building Assets-Reducing Risks (BARR) |
Under Review | A school-based program that aims to help incoming freshmen make a successful transition to high school by increasing attendance, decreasing behavioral problems, and improving academic performance. |
Building Blocks |
Inconclusive Evidence | A mathematics curriculum development program that aims to improve mathematical knowledge among preschool students who are at increased risk of later failure in school. |
Building Resiliency and Vocational Excellence (BRAVE) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to address economic disadvantages and prevent adolescent involvement with alcohol, drugs, and violence. |
Bulli & Pupe (Bullies and Dolls) Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce violence and aggression among adolescents by teaching participants about the negative effects of bullying and enhancing their empathy and perspective taking skills. |
Bully Busters |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based psychoeducational prevention program designed to increase teacher knowledge of bullying intervention skills and self-efficacy and reduce classroom incidents of bullying by creating a safe learning environment. |
Bully Proofing Your School |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based bullying prevention program designed to reduce bullying behaviors and increase students’ sense of safety at school by promoting protective skills, clear and consistent rules, zero tolerance for bullying, and mobilization of the “caring majority” of students. |
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