About the Blueprints Conference

THE GOAL

The goal of the conference is to disseminate science-based information on programs that have the highest standards for promoting education, behavior, emotional well-being, physical health and positive relationships. This conference will provide support, guidance, and tools by program experts to help practitioners implement these programs successfully in their own communities.

THE PURPOSE

The purpose of bringing developers and practitioners of evidence-based programs together in one location is to provide a first-class conference that offers continuing education and networking opportunities. This conference sets a foundation for future collaboration among those interested in the promotion of evidence-based programs.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• State child welfare, juvenile justice, education, mental and behavioral health, and public directors seeking to invest in evidence-based programs for children
• Public school district administrators with oversight for program planning
• Federal agencies with oversight for children’s programs
• Foundations supporting research and practice on children’s issues
• Policymakers interested in programs they should support
• Community-based programs and advocacy organizations/advocates
• Researchers and program developers – understanding standards and information about similar programs

About Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

Blueprints (formerly Blueprints for Violence Prevention) began in 1996 and is hosted at the University of Colorado Boulder—Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV). With over a decade of funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Blueprints maintained a focus on violence and drug use outcomes. Through funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation it has recently expanded its scope to include mental and physical health, self-regulation, and educational achievement outcomes.

Blueprints’ standards for certifying model and promising programs are widely recognized as the most rigorous in use. Program effectiveness is based upon an initial review by CSPV and a final review and recommendation from a distinguished advisory board, comprised of six experts in the field of youth development. Users can have confidence in the ability of the certified programs to change targeted behavior and developmental outcomes.

The Blueprints model programs are:

• Brief Alcohol Screening Intervention for College Students (BASICS)
• Functional-Family Therapy (FFT)
• LifeSkills Training (LST)
• Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
• Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)
• Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)
• Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)
• Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND)

The Blueprints promising programs are:

• Adolescents Coping with Depression
• Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS)
• Be Proud Be Responsible
• Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Bright Bodies
• Cognitive Behavioral IV for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)
• Communities That Care
• Coping Power
• Early Literacy and Learning
• EFFEKT
• Familias Unidas
• Good Behavior Game (GBG)
• Guiding Good Choices (GGC)
• Highscope Preschool
• Incredible Years - Teacher
• Incredible Years - Child Treatment
• Incredible Years - Parent
• Inshape
• Olweus Bullying Prevention
• Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Peer Assisted Learning (PALS)
• Positive Family Support-Family Check-Up (Formerly Adolescent Transitions)
• Project Northland
• Quick Reads
• Raising Healthy Children
• Safe Dates
• Story Talk: Interactive Book Reading
• Steps to Respect
• SPORT
• Strengthening Families 10-14
• Strong African American Families (SAAF)
• Success for All
• Targeted Reading
• Triple P (System)
• Wyman's Teen Outreach

For more information about Blueprints for Violence Prevention, please contact Sharon Mihalic at 303-492-2137 or via email at sharon.mihalic@colorado.edu.