PDF READ Blueprints for Violence Prevention | Identifying programs that have been proven effective is essential to preventing juvenile violence and delinquency The Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative developed by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of ColoradoBoulder and supported by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has developed and implemented research based criteria for evaluating program effectiveness Given limited resources communities seek to ensure that the programs they implement will produce the desired resus After reviewing more than programs the Blueprints initiative has identified model programs and promising programs that prevent violence and drug use and treat youth with problem behaviors To further assess the effectiveness of the Blueprints programs OJJDP funded replications of Blueprints programs nationwide delivering training and technical assistance to sites replicating of the Blueprints model violence prevention programs and to another sites