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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Doodle Den |
Inconclusive Evidence | An after-school literacy program that aims to promote children’s regular school attendance, engagement in learning outside of school, and overall literacy skills by improving children’s confidence and the home environment. |
DreamBox Learning |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based program designed to help elementary school students master key mathematics concepts, increase mathematical achievement, and accelerate overall student learning. |
Drug Court: Chester County |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transitional program that aims to reduce recidivism and substance abuse among drug-involved offenders through the use of drug treatment courts that focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment and encourage greater collaboration between the defense, prosecution, and treatment team than is usual. |
Drug Court: Dane County |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transitional program that aims to reduce recidivism among drug-involved offenders by avoiding traditional courts and instead utilizing drug treatment courts, which focus on identifying and treating the underlying causes of criminal behavior, such as substance dependence or anger management issues. |
Drug Court: DWI |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transitional program that aims to reduce recidivism among offenders with driving while intoxicated (DWI) convictions by allowing for rehabilitation and treatment in an outpatient setting, rather than in a jail setting. |
Drug Court: Maricopa County First Time Drug Offender (Adult) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A transitional program that aims to: 1) decrease substance use and recidivism by increasing the availability of treatment for probationers; 2) increase the accountability of offenders by providing a more structured system of supervision and sanctions; and 3) reduce system overcrowding. |
Drug Court: Tarrant County |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-faceted treatment approach that aims to break the cycle of recidivism and substance abuse among minor drug offenders by directly targeting drug use and criminal behavior while simultaneously encouraging their participation in the broader community. |
Drug Education in Victorian Schools (DEVS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug education program that aims to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use by emphasizing harm reduction and abstinence. Secondary goals include increasing knowledge of the harmful effects of substances and communication with parents while decreasing substance-favoring attitudes. |
Drug Use Prevention for Sexual Minority Youth |
Inconclusive Evidence | A computer-based program designed to prevent substance abuse, including tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use, among sexual minority youth. |
Dual Enrollment |
Inconclusive Evidence | A college readiness strategy for increasing postsecondary participation and completion rates. The term dual enrollment, also known as dual credit and concurrent enrollment, refers to the broad array of programs available to high school students that allow them to enroll in college-level coursework and simultaneously earn high school and college credit. |
Duluth Model for Domestic Violence Offenders |
Inconclusive Evidence | A prison-based curriculum intended to prevent repeat arrests for domestic violence offenders. |
Dutch Obesity Intervention in Teenagers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component health promotion program that aims to prevent excessive weight gain in teenagers by increasing awareness of and inducing behavioral changes surrounding energy intake and energy output. |
Dyadic Literacy Learning with Executive Functions Support |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program intended to increase early phonological awareness and letter recognition skills in kindergarten children. |
e-LifeSkills Training (e-LST) Middle School |
Inconclusive Evidence | A hybrid digital prevention program that aims to prevent teenage substance use by increasing student health knowledge, skills knowledge, and life skills. |
Earlscourt Social Skills Group Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program designed to improve prosocial behavior, self-control and social skills of moderately aggressive, noncompliant children. |
Early Childhood Consultation Partnership |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher training program designed to improve teachers’ skills in managing problematic externalizing behaviors among preschool children, and in return, to decrease and ultimately eliminate preschool expulsion. |
Early Head Start |
Inconclusive Evidence | A child development program that aims to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance the development of very young children, promote healthy family functioning, and to increase school readiness in children of families with low income. |
Early Risers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to provide education and skills training to children at heightened risk for development of antisocial behavior. |
Early Talk Boost |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based early literacy program that increases speaking and listening skills for pre-school children who have possible language delays. |
Early Truancy Prevention Project (ETPP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A teacher-training program that aims to prevent primary school absenteeism by facilitating greater teacher-parent interaction to uncover reasons for poor attendance and put in place action plans for addressing these barriers throughout the school year. |
Educare |
Inconclusive Evidence | An early head start program that combines early childhood care and education with parent training to foster language, motor skills, social, and cognitive development. |
Educator-Implemented Vocabulary Development for Preschoolers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A storybook program aimed at stimulating vocabulary development in preschoolers who are at-risk for poor vocabulary development. |
eHealth Familias Unidas |
Inconclusive Evidence | An online, family-based intervention that seeks to prevent drug use and risky sex among Hispanic adolescents by improving family functioning. |
EL Summer School |
Inconclusive Evidence | To help high school students who are recent immigrants and English learners keep pace academically by taking take extra courses in the summer. |
Embedded Story-Structure (ESS) Routine |
Inconclusive Evidence | A summer school program designed to improve at-risk students’ reading comprehension. |
Emotion Understanding |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program that aims to improve elementary-school children’s social cognition, emotion comprehension, and empathy through engaging in conversations on emotion understanding. |
Emotional Literacy to Reduce Bullying |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve the emotional literacy of students who bully others and help students develop self-awareness, learn about self-regulation, enhance empathy, and improve social skills. |
Employment Reentry Program — Minnesota |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to help offenders avoid recidivism by finding and retaining employment after release from prison. |
Enhanced Thinking Skills (ETS) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-skills program to reduce reconviction rates among criminal offenders in England and Wales. |
EPEC (Empowering parents, empowering communities) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program that aims to teach hard-to-reach parents effective parenting skills and ultimately to reduce the occurrence and severity of child behavior problems. |
Ethnic Studies Curriculum and Pedagogy |
Inconclusive Evidence | A curriculum designed to increase commitment to social justice, improve self-esteem, close achievement gaps, and reduce dropout rates of minority high school students. |
European Smoking Prevention Framework Approach (ESFA) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-level program designed to prevent the onset of smoking in adolescents. |
Event Specific Prevention: 21st birthday drinking |
Inconclusive Evidence | A Web-based personalized feedback program aimed at reducing the number of drinks college students will have on their 21st birthday. |
Every Classroom, Every Day |
Inconclusive Evidence | A two-year instructional improvement intervention designed to increase high school student achievement in math and English/language arts. |
Explore Your Horizons |
Inconclusive Evidence | A career education program designed for high school students that provides guidance, information, and encouragement to help both students and parents develop and realize post-secondary education goals. |
Expressive Writing Intervention (for physical aggression) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based intervention designed to increase emotional regulation and reduce aggressive behavior of at-risk youth through expressive writing. |
Extended Reading Intervention for High Schoolers |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve reading skills and class performance among high school students with reading problems. |
Failure Free Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A language development program that aims to improve the reading skills of nonreaders (K-12) through direct instruction of reading comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. |
Families and Schools Together (FAST) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A multi-component program designed to prevent school failure, delinquency, aggression and substance abuse in at-risk elementary school children. |
Families First Home Visiting Program (FFHV) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A home visitation program to reduce child maltreatment injury and removal of children from their home while encouraging healthy child development. |
Families for Safe Dates |
Inconclusive Evidence | A program designed to decrease dating abuse perpetration and victimization in adolescents . |
Family Bereavement Program (FBP) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to reduce problematic grief responses of parentally bereaved youths. |
Family Centered Treatment (FCT) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family-driven therapeutic model that aims to re-introduce delinquent youth into their communities and prevent future recidivism in a more cost-effective way than traditional residential services. |
Family Check-Up – School |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based family-centered tiered intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior and risk for substance abuse and depression and improve family management practices and communication skills, as well as adolescents’ self-regulation skills and prosocial behaviors. |
Family Connects |
Inconclusive Evidence | A postnatal home visitation program that aims to promote infant health and well-being and reduce the need for infant emergency medical care. |
Family Critical Time Intervention (FCTI) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A community-based service model designed to prevent mental health problems and improve school outcomes in homeless children and adolescents by providing structured support and guidance for newly homeless families. |
Family Effectiveness Training |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family therapy program that aims to correct maladaptive family interactions and strengthen the family, ultimately aiming at decreasing drug abuse of at-risk Hispanic adolescents. |
Family Group Cognitive-Behavioral Preventive Intervention |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family group cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to enhance effective parenting in mothers and fathers with depression and to improve the coping skills of children and adolescents. |
Family Matters |
Inconclusive Evidence | Family directed program aimed at preventing adolescent tobacco and alcohol use. |
Family Spirit |
Inconclusive Evidence | A parent training program designed to increase mothers’ parenting knowledge, involvement, and stimulation of the child in the home environment, which over time would positively have an impact on children’s social, emotional and behavioral development. |
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