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 | ||
|---|---|---|
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC; now known as Reading Wings) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based curriculum that aims to promote reading and writing skills among elementary school children through an emphasis on cooperative learning. |
Coordinated Approach to Child Health – Early Childhood (CATCH-EC) |
Insufficient Evidence | This preschool-based healthy lifestyle promotion program aims to reduce obesity in young children by developing habits of eating healthy foods and engaging in physical activity at both preschool and home. |
Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based health promotion program designed to decrease the fat and sodium content of children’s diets, increase physical activity, and prevent tobacco use. |
COPE Healthy Lifestyles TEEN |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral and skill-building program designed to improve children’s body mass index (BMI), mental health, social skills, and academic outcomes. |
Coping and Promoting Strength |
Inconclusive Evidence | A family-based intervention designed to prevent the onset and severity of anxiety symptoms among children with anxious parents. |
Coping and Support Training (CAST) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A skills training program designed to increase personal and social assets while decreasing suicidal behaviors and related risk factors. |
Coping Cat ‘Dutch Adaptation’ |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to reduce anxiety in children. |
Coping Cat Program for Anxiety and Autism |
Inconclusive Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to reduce anxiety among children and young adolescents who have been diagnosed with anxiety disorders. |
Coping Inside |
Insufficient Evidence | A cognitive-behavioral program that aims to provide youth with appropriate coping skills to manage their symptoms of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
Coping Power – Internet Enhanced |
Insufficient Evidence | A preventative group intervention that targets at-risk children in the late elementary grades and aims to reduce aggressive attitudes and behaviors among all school children. |
Coping Skills Training (Type 2 Diabetes prevention) |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes among inner-city minority youth through exercise and nutritional education and coping skills training. |
Coping with Stress |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based cognitive-behavioral program designed to prevent depressive symptoms in adolescents. |
Coping with Work and Family Stress |
Inconclusive Evidence | A skills training program that aims to teach participants adaptive coping strategies for managing work and family stress. |
Correctional Education Association College of the Air (CEA/COA) |
Insufficient Evidence | A two-year, post-secondary academic intervention, implemented in state prisons, that aims to increase incarcerated students’ performance on measures of critical thinking skills, credit acquisition, achievement motivation, educational aspirations, personal development, and institutional climate. |
Correctional Education Program (Adult Practice) |
Insufficient Evidence | A correctional education program designed to promote post-release employment and reduce recidivism. |
Corrective Reading |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to improve the decoding and comprehension skills of struggling readers of all ages through direct instruction on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. |
Cottage Community Care Pilot Project |
Insufficient Evidence | A family-support program designed to improve family functioning through enrollment in a family support/child protection initiative, which links trained volunteers with “vulnerable” first time parents. |
Count on Me |
Insufficient Evidence | A violence prevention program designed to promote coexistence and modify student attitudes toward school violence through the use of class-based group discussion techniques. |
CRAFT Project |
Insufficient Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment (CAPSLE) |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to create a learning conducive climate within schools by reducing school violence and bullying, instilling in each student a feeling of worth and self-respect, and teaching children effective problem-solving and coping skills. |
Creating Lasting Family Connections |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program designed to increase individual, family, and community protective factors that might delay the onset and reduce the frequency of substance use. |
Creating Lasting Family Connections Fatherhood Program: Family Reintegration (CLFCFP) |
Insufficient Evidence | A community-based program to reduce recidivism and risky behaviors for those reentering society. |
Creative Dance and Movement Program |
Inconclusive Evidence | A dance program that seeks to improve the social competence of preschool children. |
CREST: Multistage Therapeutic Community for Drug Offenders |
Insufficient Evidence | An adult crime program that aims to break the cycle of recidivism and substance abuse among drug offenders though a multistage therapeutic community treatment approach that targets the offender’s alcohol and drug use during the incarceration, work release, and parole periods. |
Cretan Health and Nutrition Education Programme |
Insufficient Evidence | A health education program that aims to reduce the risk of later development of cardiovascular disease by promoting health dietary and lifestyle habits among children. |
Criando con Amor, Promoviendo Armonia y Superacion (CAPAS — Raising Children with Love, Promoting Harmony and Self-Improvement) |
Insufficient Evidence | A group-based parent training program, designed for the Spanish-speaking Latina/o community, that aims to reduce behavioral problems in children. |
Crisis Intervention Services Project (CRISP) |
Insufficient Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Crossover Youth Practice Model |
Inconclusive Evidence | A juvenile justice program that aims to reduce recidivism among maltreated youth through earlier individualized treatment, family engagement, and improved communication and coordination with child welfare and juvenile justice systems. |
CSF Buxmont Academy |
Insufficient Evidence | A transitional program designed to help at-risk or adjudicated youth, through restorative principles, to positively change their attitudes in order to be happier, more productive individuals. |
Cuidate |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based program that aims to reduce teen pregnancy and increase the prevalence of sexual health behaviors among Hispanic youth by changing attitudes, knowledge, skills, and intentions to engage in safe sexual behaviors. |
Cure Violence/CeaseFire (Practice) |
Inconclusive Evidence | This community-based intervention uses a public health approach to reduce gun violence and violent crime by changing norms surrounding violence in high risk individuals and neighborhoods. |
Curiosity Corner |
Inconclusive Evidence | A comprehensive preschool program designed to develop higher quality learning environments and increase language ability among 3- and 4-year-olds who are at risk of school failure due to poverty. |
Curriculum-Based Support Group Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to decrease early onset substance use, antisocial attitudes (including attitudes and intentions favorable to substance use), and rebellious behavior. |
Cyber Friendly Schools (CFS) |
Insufficient Evidence | An activity-based, whole-school program designed to reduce and prevent cyber-bullying among middle- and secondary-school students through in-class activities and targeted improvements to the school environment. |
D.A.R.E. Plus |
Inconclusive Evidence | A school-based curriculum that aims to provide skills in handling violent situations and recognizing and resisting influences to use drugs by placing emphasis on peer influences, parental involvement, supervised after-school activities, and neighborhood community organizing. The program also focuses on character-building and becoming a citizen in our communities. |
D.A.R.E.’s Revised Elementary School Curriculum |
Insufficient Evidence | A revised school-based curriculum that seeks to promote active learning by enhancing students’ participation in lessons that include opportunities for students to 1) apply their decision-making skills to drug offers, 2) learn to cope with pressures faced in adolescence, and 3) develop an understanding of the low prevalence of peers’ substance use. |
D.C. Superior Court Drug Intervention Programs |
Inconclusive Evidence | A diversion program that uses two different court-based procedures to identify drug-involved offenders soon after arrest and encourage drug desistance through a combination of treatment, incentives, and sanctions. |
Dads Matter |
Insufficient Evidence | The program aims to improve father-child and mother-father relationships, reduce parent stress, and reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect by engaging fathers in perinatal home visits. |
Daily Behavior Report Cards |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program that aims to decrease students’ disruptive classroom behavior through delivery of regular email reports from teachers to parents. |
Dallas Anti-Gang Initiative |
Insufficient Evidence | An anti-gang initiative that aims to reduce gang violence by placing police officers in areas known to be frequented by violent gangs and incorporating several different enforcement strategies, including saturation patrols, truancy enforcement, and curfew monitoring. |
Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender Program |
Insufficient Evidence | Aims to reduce the risk of recidivism and violence among prisoners with a mental disorder and a high risk of reoffending by improving the identification process and providing additional mental health treatment post-release. |
DARE |
Inconclusive Evidence | A drug use prevention program delivered to students by local police officers. |
Dare to be You (DTBY) |
Insufficient Evidence | A multi-level prevention program designed to alter developmental trajectories that result in substance abuse. The program also aims to decrease the use of harsh punishment and improve behavior, interactions with parents, and developmental milestones of high-risk preschool-aged children. |
Dat-e Adolescence |
Insufficient Evidence | A school-based program for reducing dating violence. |
Date SMART |
Inconclusive Evidence | A skill-based group intervention aimed at reducing dating violence and sexual risk behavior in adolescent girls with prior exposure to physical dating violence. |
Dating Matters |
Insufficient Evidence | A program to promote healthy teen relationships and reduce teen dating violence through school-based classroom learning and community-based parent training. |
Dealing with Conflict |
Insufficient Evidence | Need content to fill out |
Decreasing Sedentary Behaviors to Treat Obesity |
Insufficient Evidence | An obesity prevention program designed to promote healthy weight in children and their parents through nutritional instruction, sedentary behavior reduction, and physical activity training. |
Delaware County Transition Program |
Insufficient Evidence | A transition program that aims to reduce recidivism by providing case management and reentry support to probationers with mental health and substance abuse issues. |
Delaware Therapeutic Community |
Insufficient Evidence | A work-release program designed to reduce drug relapse among parolees with previous substance abuse issues. |
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