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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence University of Colorado Boulder www.colorado.edu/cspv. Overview. Blueprints Background Blueprints Criteria Program Registries Advantages of Evidence-Based Programs Blueprints Website

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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

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  1. Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence University of Colorado Boulder www.colorado.edu/cspv

  2. Overview • Blueprints Background • Blueprints Criteria • Program Registries • Advantages of Evidence-Based Programs • Blueprints Website • Blueprints Contact Information

  3. Blueprints Background • 1996: With OJJDP funding, began identifying effective youth violence, delinquency, and drug prevention programs • 2011: With Annie E. Casey Foundation funding, expanded outcomes to academic, emotional well-being, and physical health programs

  4. Blueprints Background • About 1,200 youth prevention programs have been reviewed. • 37 programs meet the promising program criteria. • 10 programs meet the model program criteria: • Brief Alcohol Screening for College Students (BASICS) • Functional Family Therapy (FFT) • LifeSkills Training (LST) • Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) • Multisystemic Therapy (MST) • New Beginnings (for children of divorce) • Nurse-Family Partnership • Positive Action • Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) • Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) • Detailed information about each program available at http://www.blueprintsprograms.com

  5. Defining Evidence-Based • Tension in Setting a Standard • Low Standard – more programs, greater risk of failure • High Standard – fewer programs, greater certainty when going to scale (Blueprints) • Blueprints Standard Widely Recognized as Most Rigorous • Exhaustive literature search • Internal review • External review – advisory board

  6. Blueprints Criteria • Model Program Criteria • Strong research design - two randomized control trials (RCT), or one RCT & one quasi-experimental design • Effects sustained at least 1 year post-treatment • Promising Program Criteria • Strong research design – one randomized control trial, or two quasi-experimental design studies

  7. Blueprints Criteria • Evaluation Quality • Selection bias • Baseline equivalence • Sample Ns described at each stage • Differential attrition • Intent to treat analysis • Analysis at proper level • Measures valid and reliable • Measures independent from delivery of intervention

  8. Blueprints Criteria • Intervention Specificity – clearly identifies • Targeted outcomes • Targeted risk and protective factors • Theoretical mechanisms (program components) • Targeted population • Intervention Impact • Preponderance of evidence from high-quality study - Consistent across multiple outcomes and reporters • No evidence of harmful effects • Behavioral outcomes (not attitudes)

  9. Blueprints Criteria • Dissemination Readiness • Organizational capacity • Materials • Training and TA • Quality assurance (fidelity)

  10. Program Registries Program registries: • Vary in focus (specific outcomes) • Vary in criteria • Vary in labeling Resource: Matrix of Federal and Privately Rated Programs (on Blueprints website, Resources page, at http://blueprintsprograms.com/resources/Matrix.pdf)

  11. Matrix Example

  12. Matrix Example

  13. Advantages of Evidence-Based Programs • Assurance that program works • Cost-benefit data available - WSIPP modest portfolio of EBPs will save nearly $480 million over 20 years • Packaged/manualized materials available • Training and TA available • Quality assurance (fidelity)

  14. Blueprints Website www.blueprintsprograms.com Easy-to-use program searches identifying programs that match • Risk and protective factors • Outcomes achieved • Type of program • Targeted population (gender, ethnicity, age)

  15. Blueprints Website Each Blueprints program has information on: • program description and goals • risk and protective factors • logic model • outcomes achieved • training and technical assistance • contact information • costs and funding strategies • cost-benefit • full write-ups describing all program evaluations

  16. Blueprints Conference • Every two years • April 14-16, 2014, in Denver, CO • Brings together program developers, implementers, policy-makers, and others interested in EBPs

  17. Contact Information • Sharon Mihalic, Blueprints Director Sharon.Mihalic@colorado.edu 303-492-2137 • Delbert Elliott, PI Delbert.Elliott@colorado.edu University of Colorado Boulder 483 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 www.blueprintsprograms.com www.colorado.edu/cspv

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