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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
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.

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 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.

Choosing the Best
Inconclusive Evidence

An abstinence education program designed to promote sexual abstinence among middle and high school students through social, cognitive, and inductive learning activities.

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 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.

Classroom Centered Intervention
Not Dissemination Ready

A school-based intervention designed to reduce the proximal targets of poor achievement, concentration problems, aggression, and shy behaviors by enhancing teachers’ behavior management and instructional skills.

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).

Climate Schools
Inconclusive Evidence

Multiple web-based programs that aim to reduce the use of cannabis, alcohol, ecstasy, and new psychoactive substances among middle and high school students.

Coaching Boys into Men
Inconclusive Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce dating violence by improving intentions to intervene in dating violence, recognition of abusive behaviors, attitudes toward gender equality, behaviors as a bystander, and abuse perpetration among high school male athletes.

Cogmed Computerized Training Program (RoboMemo)
Inconclusive Evidence

A skills-training program that aims to improve executive functions such as the use of working memory and the ability to focus on academic tasks through computerized cognitive training.

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 Behavior Therapy plus Emotion Regulation
Inconclusive Evidence

The program aims to decrease or prevent problem drinking and improve emotional regulation among college students with interpersonal trauma histories.

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Children of Depressed Parents
Inconclusive Evidence

A family-based cognitive-behavioral intervention that aims to enhance effective parenting in mothers and fathers with depression and prevent or reduce mental risks among children of depressed parents.

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 Prevention Program for Depression
Not Dissemination Ready

A group-based intervention designed to prevent depression among at-risk adolescents with non-clinical symptoms of depression through cognitive restructuring and problem-solving techniques.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Offenders in Custody
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to address a variety of mental health needs among adolescents in custody of the juvenile justice system.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorder
Insufficient Evidence

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

Cognitive Intervention for Stress and Anxiety Management
Inconclusive Evidence

A multi-phase school-based program designed to help adolescent boys cope with stress and anxiety.

Cognitive Mediation Training
Inconclusive Evidence

A group-based program designed to modify supportive beliefs about aggression utilization among incarcerated adolescents by focusing on social problem-solving skills.

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 Skills / Cognitieve Vaardigheden (CoVa)
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-skills program designed to reduce reconviction rates among criminal offenders in the Netherlands.

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 Tutor Algebra I
Inconclusive Evidence

A technology-based curriculum that aims to improve the algebraic proficiency of middle and high school students through computer tutorials and student-centered classroom activities.

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.

Cognitively Enhanced Home Visitation Intervention (HV+)
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitively-enhanced home-visitation program designed to promote positive child outcomes and parenting practices.

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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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currently funded by Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) and historically has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.