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 | ||
|---|---|---|
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. |
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. |
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 Stars Challenge |
Insufficient Evidence | A classroom-based behavior management program designed to help students understand social norms for getting along through structured weekly activities. |
Allgemeine Lebenskompetenzen und Fertigkeiten (ALF; general life competencies and skills) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to lower substance affinity and reduce the number of child substance abuse cases. |
Alternative to Suspension for Violent Behavior |
Insufficient Evidence | A conflict resolution training program that aims to reduce further violence among violent adolescents and their parents through the development of social problem-solving and thinking skills. |
Alternatives to Violence |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to reduce prison infractions among inmates by developing strategies for violence avoidance. |
Amazing Alternatives! Home Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A primary prevention program designed to promote communication between parents and their children, improve parenting skills (such as monitoring and supervision), and reduce underage drinking. |
Amity In-Prison Therapeutic Community |
Insufficient Evidence | A therapeutic community approach designed to reduce recidivism by providing in-prison structure and support for incarcerated substance abusers. Treatment extends into communities through the use of aftercare facilities. |
Anasazi Foundation: The Making of a Walking |
Insufficient Evidence | A wilderness therapy program for adolescents 12-17 years of age with emotional, behavioral, or substance use problems. |
Anger and Other Emotions Management |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to reduce rates of recidivism among violent offenders by decreasing violent behavior and aggressive acts through skill-based training in pro-social behavior and emotion management. |
Anger Control Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based therapeutic approach designed to increase social-problem and self-control skills and reduce aggressive behavior among junior high students exhibiting high rates of classroom or community disruption. |
Anger Coping Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An anger management program that aims to reduce disruptive aggressive behavior and increase self-esteem among early adolescent boys in the classroom and home settings. |
Anger Management Therapy |
Insufficient Evidence | A brief group-based intervention that aims to reduce anger, aggression, and disruptive behavior among prisoners. |
Assertion Training |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based assertion training approach that aims to reduce aggression among adolescents. |
Assets for a Healthy Adolescence – Experiential Outdoor Service Learning (AHA-EOSL) |
Insufficient Evidence | An outdoor activities program that aims to increase peer and adult bonding, foster prosocial involvement, and reduce alcohol and marijuana use. |
Assisted Outpatient Treatment |
Insufficient Evidence | An involuntary outpatient program designed to reduce the risk of violence and arrest among individuals with serious mental illnesses. |
At-Risk Youth Mentoring Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive mentoring program that aims to reduce problem behaviors among at-risk youth. |
Auglaize County Transition Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An offender reentry program that aims to provide wraparound services to address the multidimensional problems faced by jail inmates upon release. |
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. |
Backdoor Electronic Monitoring |
Insufficient Evidence | Aims to reduce adult recidivism through an early prison release program with electronic monitoring. |
Be A Star Program |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to impact risk and factors that influence drug and alcohol use in 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 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 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. |
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. |
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. |
Behavior Support Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-wide behavioral support and discipline program that aims to reduce school detentions. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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