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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:

1445 Programs
Program Rating Brief Description
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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 Healthy Communities
Insufficient Evidence

A schoolwide culture-change program aimed at preventing and decreasing obesity in elementary-school children.

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.

Bullying Literature Project
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based bullying prevention program that aims to promote bystander intervention, adaptive sociocognitive processes, and positive social skills.

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.

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.

Career-Themed Programs of Study (POS)
Insufficient Evidence

Legislatively-mandated programs designed to prepare upcoming high school graduates for college and a career.

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.

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 My Breath
Insufficient Evidence

A brief, school-based program designed to prevent e-cigarette use initiation among middle school students by increasing social competence and refusal skills for prevention of tobacco use.

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.

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.

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.

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-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.

Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe (CHSUBS)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based curriculum that aims to protect children by teaching them the skills they need to prevent or interrupt child abuse, bullying, and neglect.

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.

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.

Class 1 Employment
Insufficient Evidence

A corrections-based employment program that uses partnerships with private sector businesses to increase post-incarceration employment and reduce recidivism.

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.

Click City: Tobacco
Insufficient Evidence

An interactive computer-based program designed to prevent tobacco use among youth by targeting the cognitive mechanisms that are theorized to be the first steps in smoking initiation (e.g., behavioral intentions, willingness).

Cognitive & Behavioral Family Therapies
Insufficient Evidence

Multi-component family therapies designed to reduce parent-child relationship conflicts and child non-compliance among teenagers diagnosed with ADHD and ODD.

Cognitive Accelertion through Science Education
Insufficient Evidence

Group-based activities that aim to promote student learning in the domains of scientific thinking, numeracy, spatial awareness, and socialization among children five through six years of age.

Cognitive and Social Skills Training Program
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based training program designed to promote social and cognitive skills among low-achieving high school students through rehearsal of modeled behavior.

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Child Welfare (CBIT-CW)
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-session group intervention that aims to reduce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and depression resulting from exposure to abuse among girls in the child welfare system.

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools with Cultural Adaptations (CBITS-CA)
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-session group intervention that aims to reduce the post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms of young offenders living in juvenile rehabilitation facilities.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorder
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approach that aims to reduce symptoms of anxiety in children.

Cognitive Self Change
Insufficient Evidence

A group-based treatment that aims to prevent adult recidivism by helping offenders recognize their own cognitive distortions and understand how these distortions result in criminal behavior.

Cognitive Training and Response Cost Procedures
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to modify aggressive behavior in elementary school children through numerous cognitive restructuring sessions.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorder (Individual vs. Group)
Insufficient Evidence

A therapeutic intervention designed to treat anxiety and other phobic disorders in children.

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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