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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Bullying Literature Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based bullying prevention program that aims to promote bystander intervention, adaptive sociocognitive processes, and positive social skills. |
Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment |
Inconclusive Evidence | An interim maintenance program that aims to improve compliance and reduce drug use among opiate-dependent individuals. |
Burn and Earn |
Insufficient Evidence | A recreational program that aims to maintain or decrease Body Mass Index (BMI) among first-year college students through the establishment of healthy exercise habits. |
California Smokers' Helpline |
Inconclusive Evidence | A brief, telephone-based smoking cessation intervention that aims to increase abstinence rates and quit attempts through telephone counseling designed to help smokers develop successful coping strategies. |
Canadian Breathalyser Law |
Inconclusive Evidence | Legislation designed to deter driving under the influence of alcohol and reduce fatalities resulting from alcohol-related automobile accidents. |
Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiment |
Insufficient Evidence | A restorative justice program designed to reduce recidivism among juvenile and adult offenders by offering an alternative sentence to traditional adjudication. |
CARE (school organization program) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school organization program designed to help schools define problems and set organizational goals. |
Care Management Intervention for American Indian/Alaska Native Patients |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program that aims to provide culturally sensitive care management to physically injured American Indian and Alaska Native trauma survivors. |
Care, Assess, Respond, Empower (CARE) |
Not Dissemination Ready | A brief school-based protocol designed to decrease suicidal behaviors and related risk factors among adolescents in high school through brief motivational counseling. |
Career Beginnings |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that seeks to prepare youth for college and increase their enrollment and attendance in college and to prepare non-college-bound youth for vocational schooling. |
Career-Themed Programs of Study (POS) |
Insufficient Evidence | Legislatively-mandated programs designed to prepare upcoming high school graduates for college and a career. |
CareerStart |
Inconclusive Evidence | A universal instructional program that aims to increase academic achievement among early adolescents by increasing student engagement through career relevant instruction. |
Carescapes |
Inconclusive Evidence | A professional development training program that aims to improve the quality of home-based child-care and promote social competence and school readiness in children by training caregivers in responsiveness and monitoring skills. |
Caring School Community (formerly Child Development Project) |
Insufficient Evidence | An intensive classroom program designed to strengthen students’ connectedness to school in order to increase motivation for academic achievement while reducing delinquency, drug use, and violence. The program also strives to improve the school environment, enhance prosocial behavior, and boost children’s commitment to prosocial goals and values. |
CASASTART |
Inconclusive Evidence | A neighborhood-based strategy that aims to prevent drug use and delinquency among high-risk adolescents 11-13 years of age living in highly distressed neighborhoods. |
Catch Kids Club |
Insufficient Evidence | An after-school program designed to teach children the skills to make health dietary and physical activity choices at school, in the community, and at home through Youth Specialist interactions. |
Catch-Up Numeracy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based mentoring program that aims to help struggling pupils improve their performance in mathematics. |
Caught in the Crossfire |
Insufficient Evidence | A peer-based violence prevention program designed to: a) prevent retaliatory violence in injured adolescents; b) reduce entry and reentry into the criminal justice system; c) reduce the total number of youth injured and killed by interpersonal violence; d) promote alternatives to violence for youth; and e) provide positive peer role models. |
CeaseFire in South Carolina |
Insufficient Evidence | A crime prevention program that aims to reduce the prevalence of gun crime through targeted prosecution and increased public education. |
CEPIDEA |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to promote prosocial behavior among seventh graders through regular prosocial learning sessions and integration of prosocial material into classroom lessons. |
Challenge! |
Inconclusive Evidence | A manualized obesity prevention program that aims to reduce body mass and increase physical activity and healthy eating through individualized sessions and home and community activities. |
Challenging College Alcohol Abuse |
Insufficient Evidence | A social norms and environmental management program that aims to a) correct misperceptions, increase knowledge, and change attitudes about alcohol and drug use behaviors among undergraduate students; b) change policies and practices related to alcohol and drug use and abuse among campus fraternity and sorority chapters; c) change faculty, administration, parental, community, and policymaker perceptions to prevent perpetuation of alcohol and drug myths; and d) to increase restrictions on alcohol availability and monitor on- and off-campus distribution and consumption. |
Charlotte School Safety Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce crime in the Nation’s schools by changing the attitudes and behaviors of students and encouraging them to act as agents of change with new skills and knowledge. |
Check and Connect (C&C) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention to improve attendance, reduce dropout, and promote school engagement among urban high school youth who are at risk for learning problems or have learning or emotional/behavioral disabilities. |
Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to utilize the police in ways that allow them to be crime prevention mechanisms rather than reactors to crime. |
Chicago Child-Parent Center (CPC) Preschool Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A center-based early intervention that aims to increase school achievement by providing educational and family support services to at-risk children. |
Chicago Parent Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A group-based parent training program designed to promote positive parenting strategies and reduce problem behaviors among African American and Latino children two through four years of age attending day care centers that serve low-income families. |
Chicago Predictive Policing Project |
Inconclusive Evidence | A policing strategy that aims to reduce gun violence. |
Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to support children’s emotional and behavioral regulation and to reduce their risk of behavioral difficulties. |
Child Advocacy Centers |
Insufficient Evidence | Child-focused facility-based programs designed to improve the community collaborative response to child sexual abuse and the criminal justice processing of child sexual abuse cases. |
Child Anxiety Multi-Day Program (CAMP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An intensive cognitive behavioral intervention that aims to reduce the severity of separation anxiety disorder among young girls. |
Child-Parent Psychotherapy |
Insufficient Evidence | Relationship-based intervention for children aged birth through 5 years who are showing mental health or behavioral problems, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Goals include: 1) to reduce the occurrence and re-occurrence of abuse and neglect; 2) to enhance the child’s developmental functioning; 3) to improve the parent-child relationship; 4) to increase expeditious permanency placements; and 5) to develop a model for intervention and treatment that could potentially be replicated at different sites. |
ChildCARE |
Insufficient Evidence | A selective prevention program that aims to improve academic performance and school satisfaction among children whose parents are affected by HIV/AIDs by improving the resilience and coping mechanisms of the children and bolstering their family and community support systems. |
Children in Between (formerly Children in the Middle) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A skills-training program designed to reduce the risk of behavioral problems among children of divorced parents through reductions in stress and anxiety. |
Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A preventative school-based program that aims to create a supportive group in which children can freely share experiences, establish common bonds, clarify misconceptions, and acquire skills that enhance their capacity to cope with the stressful changes that divorce often poses. |
Children's Aftercare Re-entry Experience (CARE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce recidivism among youth offenders currently on parole or probation through individualized case management and goal setting. |
Children's Appetite Awareness Training (CAAT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | An obesity prevention program designed to reduce incidence rates of childhood obesity by improving children’s self-regulatory capacities. |
Children's Health, Activity and Nutrition: Get Educated! (CHANGE!) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to promote healthy weight among adolescents. |
Children's Support Group |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to teach children skills to better deal with divorce-related emotions and events. |
CHOICE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A voluntary drug and alcohol prevention program designed to prevent the initiation of alcohol use among middle school students. |
Christchurch Obesity Prevention Project in Schools (CHOPPS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to reduce soda consumption and promote water consumption in an effort to prevent childhood obesity. |
Chronic Truancy Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | An school- and community-based strategy designed to reduce absenteeism and other behavioral problems among chronically truant youth in the kindergarten and elementary grades. |
Cincinnati / Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) |
Insufficient Evidence | A neighborhood-level initiative that aims to reduce and prevent gang violence and gang-related homicides by identifying potential gang members and targeting them for education, job services, and support in an effort to provide a viable alternative to gang activity and membership. |
Circle of Life |
Inconclusive Evidence | A culturally-tailored program that aims to prevent HIV, STIs, sexual risk behaviors, and substance use initiation among middle school youth by increasing their knowledge of HIV and STIs; building communication, decision-making, peer resistance, and refusal skills; and encouraging personal responsibility. |
Circle of Security |
Inconclusive Evidence | An early intervention program designed to reduce the risk of insecure and disorganized attachments in children by training caregivers to increase sensitivity and responsiveness to child distress. |
Circles of Peace (CP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A restorative justice program that aims to reduce recidivism among domestic violence offenders through weekly mediated meetings taking place over the course of six months to one year. |
Citizenship Community Supervision |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based program that aims to reduce recidivism among medium- to high-risk offenders by enhancing motivation for treatment, modeling pro-social behaviors, and integrating offenders into the mainstream community. |
City Connects |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve academic outcomes among students in high-poverty urban elementary schools by addressing family, socioemotional, and health issues that can affect students’ ability to succeed. |
Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based universal prevention program that aims to promote appropriate classroom and on-task behavior in elementary school children through weekly sessions delivered by teachers in the regular classroom setting. |
Class-Wide Positive Behavioral Support |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based behavioral management program designed to promote a positive classroom climate at the secondary level. |
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