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ProChange’s Most Recent NCQA Certifications Highlight a Continued Commitment to Best Practices and Quality in Wellness & Health Promotion
ProChange is pleased to announce that we have yet again achieved two NCQA Wellness & Health Promotion (WHP) Certifications for Health Appraisals and Self-Management Tools. NCQA Certification is a voluntary review that ProChange engages in every two years. The process involves a rigorous review of the key functions wellness and health promotion organizations perform that are of interest to...
ProChange’s Behavior Change Science and Tailoring Technology Drive New SELF Program
ProChange is proud to announce that the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) is launching Strategies to Embrace Living with Lupus Fearlessly (SELF), a new online self-management program designed to help people with lupus build and enhance skills in four pillars of lupus self-management:1. Managing symptoms 2. Managing stress 3. Managing medications 4. Working with their health care teamSELF is the...
Pro-Change Teams Up with the Rhode Island Department of Health to Promote COVID-19 Vaccines & Boosters
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) selected Pro-Change to infuse best practices from behavior change science into ongoing messaging to promote COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. The RIDOH and Pro-Change teams recognize that the individuals who have not yet been vaccinated are not a homogeneous group. Thus, targeted messages designed to meet people where they are in their decision-making...
“Change is in the Air” with host Dr. Kerry Evers on: The Behavior Change Architect Podcast
Pro-Change is excited to announce that Co-President and CEO Kerry Evers, Ph.D. has launched “The Behavior Change Architect” podcast. Having spent 30 years working in the behavior change field, Dr. Evers is excited to come together with other leaders in the field to create a mutual understanding so that, through conversations and stories, we can collaboratively build an innovative framework for...
University of Iowa to Implement Pro-Change Health Risk Assessment and Resilience Program
The University of Iowa has selected Pro-Change as its health risk assessment provider for University employees, including faculty and staff. By implementing the Pro-Change Health Risk Intervention (HRI), the University will be providing much more than the typical question and answer health risk assessment. In addition to assessing a comprehensive range of traditional health risks, the HRI...
Recharge Resilience Webinar
Who could use a recharge? Learn how to assess and influence drivers of resiliencefeat. Dr. Kerry Evers— 12-1pm (EST) Nov. 17th, 2021 Resilience—an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (Merriam-Webster). It’s a word we hear a lot lately. But is it really that important? The answer is YES! People with higher resilience have lower rates of depression, greater life...
Pro-Change to Develop Bilingual Two-Way Text Messaging Program to Increase Engagement with the Diabetes Prevention Program
Pro-Change has received a two-year contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and pilot a personalized, two-way text messaging program to combat the impact of the growing diabetes epidemic. The bilingual program will be offered in both English and Spanish and is designed to increase engagement in the CDC’s Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). More than 88 million...
Reset, Rethink & Reconnect for Higher Resilience
Resilience is a buzzword lately—and with good reason. Individuals with higher resilience are 4 times more likely to have excellent physical and mental health, 65% less likely to experience productivity loss, and 79% less likely to be depressed. The key question is how we can help individuals and organizations build resilience to bounce back in the face of...
Introducing the Resilience Evaluation Measure
Brief, valid assessments are critical for the successful implementation of behavior change solutions. They provide the necessary building blocks to appropriately tailor messaging and allow us to consistently track impact over time. Pro-Change recently developed and validated its Resilience Evaluation Measure© (REM), a 9-item survey that assesses three key drivers of resilience: mindset, meaning,...
Pro-Change Tapped by Med-IQ to Develop Two-Way SMS Program for Severe Asthma
Pro-Change was recently selected by Med-IQ, an award-winning accredited medical education provider, to create an innovative two-way text messaging communication campaign for individuals with severe uncontrolled asthma. Uncontrolled asthma is expected to be associated with health care costs of more than $300 billion and a loss of 15 million quality-adjusted life years over the next 20 years in...