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Condition Management Program Pairs Tailoring Technology With Trusted Relationships Between Black Barbers, Stylists, and Their Clients

Condition management programs, such as Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES), can be highly effective when...

App for Chronic Condition Management Deployed by ProChange

ProChange Behavior Solutions recently deployed its latest custom behavior change app for chronic condition management! In...

ProChange To Leverage Behavior Change Science to Mitigate Climate Change in Their Latest NIH Award

The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences recently awarded ProChange Behavior Solutions a Phase I Small...

Kerry E. Evers, Ph.D. Recognized as One of the Most Influential Women Leaders in Health Promotion

ProChange Behavior Solutions is proud to announce that Dr. Kerry E. Evers, Co-President and CEO, has been recognized by the...

In Memory of James O. Prochaska, Ph.D.

It deeply saddens us to share that Dr. James O. Prochaska, our extraordinary, visionary founder, died on July 9, 2023, at...

Pro-Change Receives NIDA SBIR Contract

South Kingstown, RI. (August 13, 2014)   Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. has received its first Small Business Innovation Research Contract from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Phase I contract was awarded for the topic "Technological Tools to Facilitate Implementation of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Prevention Interventions among the Military." The project aims not only to...

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Dr. Sara Johnson Talks About Coaction, Culture, and Behavior Change

South Kingstown, RI. (July 9, 2014) - In the July/August 2014 issue of the Health Promotion Practitioner, Sara Johnson, Ph.D., Senior Vice President at Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. is interviewed by Paul Terry, Ph.D., EVP and Chief Science Officer at StayWell Health Management. Dr. Terry writes that one of the most transformative research areas for health promotion relates to "coaction" -...

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Pro-Change’s Tailored Text Messaging Program Enhancement Receives Rave Reviews

South Kingstown, RI. (June 12, 2014) - As part of a larger trial, U. S. Veterans who received the full Pro-Change Smoking Cessation Program, plus the new text messaging enhancement, were asked what they liked most about the program. The overwhelming majority indicated that the text messaging they received was one of the program's highlights; with 72% indicating that the texts helped move them...

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Pro-Change Partners with VAL Health Rewards to Make Care New England “Healthy Together”

South Kingstown, RI. (June 2, 2014) - On May 19th, Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. and VAL Health Rewards launched the Healthy Together program at Care New England Health System (CNE). Healthy Together is designed to help entire families adopt regular exercise and healthy eating habits. Employees of CNE and their families will have access to Pro-Change's award-winning digital coaching programs...

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Pro-Change Programs are Part of a Collaborative Grant for Alaska Native Men and Women

South Kingstown, RI. (May 21, 2014) - The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year research project grant (R01) to study the effect of disease prevention counseling delivered via telemedicine within rural villages in the Bristol Bay Area of Alaska. Participants will be Alaska Native men and women who smoke cigarettes and have at least...

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Pro-Change’s Kerry Evers Invited Speaker at The HxRefactored Conference

South Kingstown, RI. (May 7, 2014) - Kerry Evers, PhD, Senior Vice President at Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., has been invited to present at the HxRefactored Conference in Brooklyn, NY, on how the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM) theory can be incorporated into the latest technology. The theme of the May 13-14, 2014 Conference is HxRefactored: Bringing Designers and...

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Pro-Change Chairing Symposium on the Use of Mobile Health with Special Populations at The Society of Behavioral Medicine

South Kingstown, RI. (April 17, 2014) -Drs. Leanne Mauriello and Kerry Evers will be presenting as part of a Symposium, "The Use of mHealth with Special Populations: Theory, Research and Practice" at the 35th annual meeting and scientific sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 25th. Dr.Mauriello's presentation, "Using mHealth to Deliver Behavior...

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Five Pro-Changers Present at The Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference

South Kingstown, RI. (March 20, 2014) - From March 24 - 28, 2014 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, five Pro-Changers will present an Intensive Training Seminar and Concurrent Sessions on the Conference theme, "What Works Best in Health Promotion? Perspectives of the Top Program Managers and Scientists." James O. Prochaska, PhD and Janice M. Prochaska, PhD will lead a two-day...

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Pro-Change Partners with Bearface Instructional Technologies

South Kingstown, RI. (March 5, 2014) - Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with Bearface Instructional Technologies, LLC to integrate Pro-Change's URAC award-winning LifeStyle Management Suite into Bearface's learning and assessment system products. The mission of Bearface is to provide high quality learning and assessment systems that engage students, enable...

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