The Change Companies® is a national publishing, consulting, training and video company that works with leading industry experts to develop effective, evidence-based journaling materials that assist individuals in making positive life change. Their products and services are used in the fields of prevention, treatment, impaired driving, criminal justice, and healthcare. They collaborate with researchers, innovative program managers and hundreds of service providers to stay on the cutting edge of change in research and application models.

Don Kuhl, M.S., CEO founded The Change Companies® in 1988 and has served as its CEO since. He developed Interactive Journaling®. They assert the power of this model transcends any specific treatment or educational modality. Whether a program focuses on a 12-step approach, a cognitive-behavioral model, a motivational-enhancement strategy or a combination of change models, the Interactive Journaling® resources offer a simple delivery system for the provider of services and each program participant.

Interactive Journals are created using a highly graphic approach with color on every page and a blending of core behavior-change content in combination with targeted questioning designed to engage participants in exploring risks, needs and skill deficits, as well as strengths, resources and solutions to problem behaviors. It offers a range of Journaling materials specifically geared to enhance the organization and structure of youth treatment. It keeps young clients on target while accommodating their need to express the frustrations and fears that build during the challenges of treatment. The curricula is designed not only to enable programs to implement leading behavioral-change research, but to do so in a way that is accessible, meaningful and motivational for the program participant. In the course of gathering immediate and relevant information related to problems areas, participants can map out where they have been, where they are and where they wish to go.

[This information came from The Change Companies website]