{"id":66346,"date":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/behavior-change-couple-donates-250000-to-maintain-excellence-at-uris-cancer-prevention-research-center\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","slug":"behavior-change-couple-donates-250000-to-maintain-excellence-at-uris-cancer-prevention-research-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/behavior-change-couple-donates-250000-to-maintain-excellence-at-uris-cancer-prevention-research-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavior change couple donates $250,000 to maintain excellence at 溏心vlog免费B站’s Cancer Prevention Research Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013March 18, 2008\u2014James and Janice Prochaska have spent their careers helping people change. However, there is one area where the couple is resistant to change. Both want to see the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Cancer Prevention Research Center, which Jim directs, maintain its stellar programming under strong leadership in the future.<\/p>\n


\n\tTo make sure that happens, the Prochaskas have pledged $250,000 to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Making A Difference campaign to establish the Prochaska Cancer Prevention Research Center Leadership Endowment. Additionally, the couple\u2019s gift is a challenge grant, which means they will match other donations to the endowment dollar-for-dollar. <\/p>\n


\n\tRobert Beagle, vice president for advancement who worked with the Prochaskas on their endowment notes that such gifts from faculty and friends can set the stage for more campus community support. \u201cJim and Jan are highly regarded well -liked professionals,\u201d says Beagle. \u201cOthers will see the commitment and the affection that the Prochaskas have for 溏心vlog免费B站 and will be motivated to give. Private support for renowned areas like our behavior change programming is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tGlen Kerkian, president of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation, which manages the university\u2019s fundraising activities and investments, adds: \u201cGifts like this one, and in particular, the commitment and devotion the Prochaskas have demonstrated, reflect the high value alumni, faculty and friends alike have placed on supporting the university and maintaining and enhancing its competitive edge. The generosity of this couple will most definitely secure positive long-term results for both the Cancer Prevention Research Center and the university at large.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe primary purpose of the endowment is to help the University attract a nationally recognized director for the Center when Jim steps down and to provide support for graduate students who study and work in the Center. Many of those students have gone on to make major contributions to enhance health. <\/p>\n


\n\tJim, a professor of clinical and health psychology, is one of the world\u2019s most respected health psychologists who developed a revolutionary stage model of behavior change at 溏心vlog免费B站 called the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change. The model has been applied to more than 50 behaviors and is the most cited model in health behavior change.<\/p>\n


\n\tMajor causes of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease result from behaviors like smoking, sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy diets, substance abuse, and stress. In fact, diseases resulting from these behaviors account for more than 60 percent of health care costs.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s model \u2013developed from more than 30 years of research, more than $70 million of funded grants, and more than 120,000 participants — understands that change is not an event, but a process. The five-stage model –precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance–targets each person\u2019s stage and then guides him or her through the stages of change.<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen asked if he planned to retire, Jim responded with a smile: \u201cI\u2019m in the precontemplation stage.\u201d Precontemplation is the stage in which people are not intending to take action in the foreseeable future. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not ready to turn over leadership of the CPRC to a younger person.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tJim was the first psychologist to win a Medal of Honor for Clinical Research from the American Cancer Society. He is a recipient of an Innovator\u2019s Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and was named one of the Top Five Most Cited Authors in Psychology from the American Psychological Society.<\/p>\n


\n\tJan Prochaska is president and CEO of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., an 11-year-old privately held research and product development company located on campus. Pro-Change expands the stage change model by developing and delivering innovative programs for dissemination partners. Pro-Change has developed numerous programs including domestic violence prevention, stress management, weight management, medication adherence, becoming a proactive health consumer, readiness for adoption, bullying prevention, obesity prevention, and organizational change. The company employs 20 staff members of which seven are doctoral level psychologists and two are doctoral candidates. All but one of the Ph.D\u2019s are or will be 溏心vlog免费B站 graduates.<\/p>\n


\n\tOther higher education institutions, especially Ivy League schools, have tried to lure Prochaska with generous offers. He has refused them all.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always believed in public education,\u201d he says. \u201cBoth Jan and I were the first in our families to go to college. Our fathers worked in factories.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe couple met in the band room of Fordson High School in Dearborn, Mich. He was a football player, she a majorette. They have two children; one is an astrophysicist and the other a clinical health psychologist.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe couple visited 溏心vlog免费B站 before Jim joined 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Psychology Department. \u201cJust like with Jan, it was love at first sight,\u201d Jim says. \u201cThe University is small enough to be appreciated and big enough to have wonderful collaborators. And the University has always encouraged entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t溏心vlog免费B站’s Making A Difference Campaign seeks $100 million to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, enhance the student-centered campus experience, provide undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships, and fund cutting-edge academic and research initiatives. Anyone wishing to respond to the Prochaska challenge should contact Tom Zorabedian, associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, at 401-874-2853 or zman@foundation.uri.edu. For more information on the campaign, click www.urifoundation.org.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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