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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
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 Childhood Friendship Project
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to reduce aggression and victimization and increase prosocial behavior in young children through the use of puppets, interactive classroom activities, and other elements that focus on friendship-making skills and dealing with physical and relational aggression.

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 Learning in Mathematics (ELM)
Insufficient Evidence

A 120-lesson in-school core mathematics program for kindergarten aged children designed to promote a broad and comprehensive knowledge base in mathematics.

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.

EasyPeasy Parenting App
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed to improve child development for disadvantaged children in the early years through more effective parental engagement.

eBody Project
Not Dissemination Ready

A multi-session, online intervention designed to prevent the onset of eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating among young women with body image concerns.

eCHECKUP TO GO
Insufficient Evidence

A brief, web-based program that aims to reduce alcohol use and the negative consequences of drinking in adolescents by focusing on changing perceptions of social drinking norms among peers.

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.

Education in Alimentation
Insufficient Evidence

A health education intervention designed for primary school students to improve lifestyle choices and reduce obesity.

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.

Effective Black Parenting Program (EBPP)
Insufficient Evidence

A cognitive-behavioral parenting skill training designed to improve 1) parenting practices and child-parent relationships, 2) child behavior problems and competencies, and 3) child school adjustment and performance.

EFFEKT-E
Insufficient Evidence

A multi-component program designed for families with a depressive parent to reduce the risk factors associated with a depressive parent and improve children’s social competence.

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.

Eigenstandig Werden (Becoming Independent)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to promote health and personality development in adolescents, particularly aiming at preventing substance-related addiction and bullying.

El Joven Noble
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to reduce violence and aggression in youth by establishing and maintaining healthy relationships with self, family, intimate partners, community, and culture.

El Paso Coordinated Approach to Child Health (El Paso CATCH)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to reduce overweight and overweight rates among elementary school children through a health and physical education curriculum, as well as improvements in cafeteria meal quality.

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.

Electronically Monitored Release Preparation
Insufficient Evidence

A probation service that aims to prepare criminal offenders for release through electronically-monitored home detention or work supervision.

Elemental
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to prevent and reduce sexual assault.

Embedded Story-Structure (ESS) Routine
Inconclusive Evidence

A summer school program designed to improve at-risk students’ reading comprehension.

Emergency Department Means Restriction
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program designed to help parents and adult caregivers of at-risk youth recognize the importance of taking immediate, new action to restrict access to firearms, alcohol, and prescription and over-the-counter drugs in the home.

Emergency Room Intervention for Adolescent Females
Insufficient Evidence

A program designed for adolescent girls who are admitted to the emergency room after attempting suicide to increase attendance in outpatient treatment following discharge from the emergency room and to reduce future suicide attempts.

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.

Emotion-Based Prevention Program (EBP)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to promote the well-being and positive interactions of at-risk children by teaching emotion regulation.

Emotional Intelligence training for Adolescents (INTEMO)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to improve psychosocial adjustment among adolescents by developing abilities to manage their emotions.

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.

eNew Beginnings Program
Under Review

A web-based program for separated and divorced families that aims to improve parent-child relationship quality and decrease child mental health problems.

Engage in Education-London (EiE-L)
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that aims to reduce school exclusions, such as suspensions and expulsions, and problem behaviors by improving social communication and broader social skills among high-risk adolescents.

Engaging Moms
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to help women enrolled in drug court successfully complete their drug court obligations and reunite families that have been separated and improve family functioning.

Enhanced Language and Literacy Success (ELLS)
Under Review

A preschool program that aims to foster the language and literacy development of 4-year-old children from low-income homes.

Enhanced Physical Education in Emilia Romagna
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program that seeks to improve physical fitness, reduce body weight, and increase physical activities by enhancing physical education in school.

Enhanced Thinking Skills (ETS)
Inconclusive Evidence

A cognitive-skills program to reduce reconviction rates among criminal offenders in England and Wales.

enhancing Missouri’s Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies (eMINTS)
Under Review

An intensive professional development program designed to help teachers develop student-centered, purposeful instruction fostered by technology utilization.

Enhancing Relationships in School Communities (ERIS)
Insufficient Evidence

A professional development program designed to enhance relationships and reduce conflict among teachers, students, and parents.

Enough Snuff
Insufficient Evidence

A smokeless tobacco cessation program designed to assist users in quitting their use of smokeless tobacco.

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.

EQUIP (EQUIPping Youth To Help One Another)
Insufficient Evidence

A program that aims to encourage young people to think and act responsibly and equip them with the life skills to do so, using a peer-helping approach.

Erlangen-Nuremberg Development and Prevention Study
Insufficient Evidence

An intervention designed to reduce child behavior problems, externalizing, internalizing, and delinquency through skills training for children and parents.

Errorless Compliance Training
Insufficient Evidence

A parent training program that aims to reduce noncompliance and externalizing problems in oppositional children while minimizing confrontational parent-child interactions.

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.

Everybody’s Different
Insufficient Evidence

A school-based program designed to prevent eating disorders (ED) by improving students’ self-esteem.

Expect Respect
Insufficient Evidence

A selective prevention strategy designed to prevent and reduce dating violence among at-risk middle and high school students.

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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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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is
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.