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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:

1460 Programs
Program Rating Brief Description
Women on the Road to Health (WORTH)
Inconclusive Evidence

A program for community corrections settings that combines four in-person group sessions with either face-to-face learning or computerized self-paced modules, both designed to reduce the risk of intimate partner victimization among substance using women.

Work Release (Adult Practice)
Inconclusive Evidence

This is a transitional intervention to reduce post-release recidivism by allowing offenders to hold regular jobs in the community during the last few months of incarceration

Working on Womanhood (WOW)
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based group counseling program that seeks to improve the mental health of female adolescents by enhancing individual competencies to make positive and healthy decisions.

X:IT
Inconclusive Evidence

A year-long school-based program with a social influence approach that aims to reduce adolescent smoking through environmental, parental, and educational components.

Xtreme Reading
Inconclusive Evidence

A classroom-based program for struggling adolescent readers that aims to bring their reading skills up to proficiency.

Year Up Professional Training Corps
Inconclusive Evidence

A training and internship program that takes place on college campuses to help young people with limited post-secondary education learn how to work with technology, develop employment skills, extend their education, and obtain good jobs.

Young Parenthood Program (YPP)
Inconclusive Evidence

A community or home-based counseling program for expectant adolescent couples that is designed to improve positive parenting by supporting interpersonal skill development.

Youth COMPASS
Inconclusive Evidence

An online acceptance and commitment therapy program that aims to promote adolescent mental health through weekly modules and written feedback designed to encourage integrity, goal setting, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

Youth Fit 4 Life
Inconclusive Evidence

An after-school program with the aim of reducing and preventing childhood obesity through teaching self-regulation skills, presenting nutritional information, and participating in physical activity.

Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version II (YST-II)
Inconclusive Evidence

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.

Contact

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
University of Colorado Boulder
Institute of Behavioral Science
UCB 483, Boulder, CO 80309

Email: blueprints@colorado.edu

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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is currently funded by the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy and historically has received funding from Arnold Ventures, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.