PAX Texas
PAX is Proven Prevention
Pax collection of trainings offers strategies (kernels) for educators and youth serving professionals to improve children’s behavior, self-regulation, and well-being.
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What is PAX
Are you an educator? This video will show you PAX in a classroom setting.
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Training Opportunities
Do you need to train a campus or district? Please email us at paxgbg@esc13.net
School-based
The PAX Good Behavior Game® (PAX GBG) is not a set of lessons or a curriculum, but strategies teachers use throughout their normal school day to build students’ behavioral skills and stamina for focused attention and on-task behavior.
This 6-hour training is designed for teachers, support staff and school administrators
is offered in live virtual, in-person, and self-paced online formats.
We offer Early Childhood, Elementary or Adolescent specialized variations.
PAX Good Behavior Game for Elementary
Provides classroom based strategies to educators & staff to implement evidence-based Kernels to decrease problematic behavior, improve academic performance, & increase student engagement.
Grades Kindergarten-6th
PAX Good Behavior Game for Early Childhood
This is a school-based, classroom preventive intervention implemented by educators to teach students self-regulation; now available in a specialized variation targeting early childhood.
Children aged 3-5
PAX Good Behavior Game for Adolescents
PAX Good Behavior Game for Adolescents addresses the unique social and neurobiological changes that youth undergo during adolescence targeting middle and high school.
Grades 7th-12th
School-based Advanced
Once you have taken Good Behavior Game training, we offer 3 additional advanced courses that can improve classroom skills, help with tier 2 or 3 behavior or support the PAX Good Behavior Game implementation for your campus or district.
PAX Next Steps Training
Targets teachers already trained in PAX Good Behavior Game. This training helps participants recalibrate implementation and expand upon strategies for improved outcomes.
PAX HEROES
Provides experienced PAX Teachers strategies for use with students in PAX classrooms who demonstrate more intensive behavioral needs selecting targeted Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports to improve their behavioral and academic performance.
PAX Partner Training
Provides coaching and professional development for staff to guide & support PAX GBG implementation, collect data, troubleshoot, expand implementation, and integrate PAX GBG with other school-wide initiatives.
Community-based
Once you have taken Good Behavior Game training, we offer 3 additional advanced courses that can improve classroom skills, help with tier 2 or 3 behavior or support the PAX Good Behavior Game implementation for your campus or district.
PAX Tools For Human Services
PAX Tools for Human Services is a collection of trauma-informed evidence-based behavioral strategies for adults Professionals working in behavior health, case management, child life, child welfare, juvenile justice, peer support, social work, and wrap around. These strategies promote the development of self-regulation in youth, reduce conflict between youth and adults, and viewing behavior as a skill set.
Community Educator Training
PAX Community Educator is a collection of trauma-informed evidence-based behavioral strategies designed to support young people and adults who care for them. These strategies improve relationships, collaboration, self-regulation and foster a sense of empowerment. People who work as parent & health educators, prevention specialists, volunteer coordinators, and extension educators who participate in this training can present PAX Tools Workshops locally to families of all kinds – parents, guardians, grandparents, caregivers, kinship & foster parents.
PAX Tools For Youth Workers
Provides trauma-informed, evidence-based strategies for those working with youth in the community during out-of-school time. PAX Tools for Youth Workers is a collection of research based strategies to improve cooperation and self- regulation in children.
PAX Tools For Caregivers
PAX Tools for Caregivers is a workshop where caregivers learn simple, trauma-informed strategies to help children build self-control, reduce challenging behaviors, and strengthen adult-child relationships. This is designed for parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, kinship care providers or other caregivers.
PAX Tools for Youth Development
PAX Tools for Youth Development is a collection of trauma-informed evidence-based behavioral strategies for site directors and full-time staff who work with young people in out-of-school time programs like ACE, Boys and Girls Clubs and YMCA.
PAX Videos
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PAX Tools
Do you work with children and families? This video will describe how PAX works for those who support children.
Funding made possible (in part) by grant award number H79TI085747 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and with the support of The Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The views expressed in training materials, publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services or Texas Health and Human Services Commission; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. or Texas Government.