The Blueprint for Violence Prevention was a research program developed at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at University of Colorado in Boulder. Its goal was to identify model violence-preventing programs for implementation in Colorado. After reviewing over 600 programs the Blueprints Initiative found 11 programs it identified as model programs and 21 which it considered were promising. The research project selected programs based upon evidence of a deterrent effect, sustained effect, multiple site replication, cost-benefit analysis

Cost-benefit analysis

Cost–benefit analysis , sometimes called benefit–cost analysis , is a systematic process for calculating and comparing benefits and costs of a project for two purposes: to determine if it is a sound investment , to see how it compares with alternate projects...

, and other mediating factors. This project was funded buy the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

Model programs

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
  Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
  Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is a 501 non-profit organization whose mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors that try to have a measurable impact on youth....
  
  
• Bullying Prevention Program
• Functional Family Therapy
• Incredible Years: Parent, Teacher, and Child Training Series
• Life Skills Training
  Life Skills-Based Education
  Life skills have been defined by the World Health Organization as “abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life”...
  
  
• Midwestern Prevention Project
• Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
  Foster care
  Foster care is the term used for a system in which a minor who has been made a ward is placed in the private home of a state certified caregiver referred to as a "foster parent"....
  
  
• Multisystemic Therapy
  Multisystemic therapy
  Multisystemic Therapy is an intensive, family-focused and community-based treatment program for chronic and violent youth...
  
  
• Nurse-Family Partnership
• Project Towards No Drug Abuse
• Promoting Alternative Treatment Strategies

Promising programs

• Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids
• Brief Strategic Family Therapy
  Strategic Family Therapy
  Strategic therapy is one of the major models of both family and brief psychotherapy. It was inspired by the work of Milton Erickson, MD and Don Jackson, MD and has been associated with the work of Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes , the Brief Therapy Team at the Mental Research Institute Strategic...
  
  
• CASASTART
• Fast Track
• Good Behavior Game
• Guiding Good Choices
• High/ Scope Perry Pre-school
• Houston Child Development Center
• I Can Problem Solve
• Intensive Protection Supervision
• Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers
• Preventive Intervention
• Preventive Treatment Program
• Project Northland
• Promoting Action Through Holistic Education
• School Transitional Environment Program
• Seattle Social Development Project
• Strengthening Parents Program: Parents and Children 10-14
• Student Training Through Urban Strategies
• Syracuse Family Development Program
• Yale Child Welfare Project