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The PAX Good Behavior Game® and PAX Tools give adults in schools and community settings strategies to help prevent behavioral health concerns and promote positive relationships.

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Helping Ohio Preschoolers Excel

Helping Ohio Preschoolers Excel (previously known as the Ohio Preschool Expulsion Prevention Partnership) is an evidence-informed, statewide program that connects early learning professionals who work with children ages 0-8 to long-term support.

Kindergarten Readiness Rates Are Shockingly Low

Only 1 in 3 children in Franklin County, Ohio who are entering kindergarten actually demonstrate readiness to enter kindergarten. That’s often understood as an educational issue, but it may have more to do with social determinants of health.

Expanding a Nurse Visitation Program to New Ohio Counties

The Nurse-Family Partnership, which pairs specially trained nurses with pregnant women to support maternal and baby health, is coming to Athens, Morgan, Muskingum and Guernsey counties.

What Experts Know About Youth Suicide Prevention

Experts from Nationwide Children’s Center for Suicide Prevention and Research have helped create a free book exploring the most pressing issues in suicide prevention. Learn how you can download your own copy.

Youth Most at Risk for Suicide Feel Supported by “Caring Contacts”

Patients hospitalized for suicidality are 300x more at risk of suicide in the first week after hospital discharge, and 200x more at risk over the first month, compared to the general population. Nationwide Children’s is the first children’s hospital to study how a positive texting service after discharge may help these youth.

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Study Shows Text Messages Help Youth at Risk For Suicide Feel Supported After Discharge

In a study published today in the JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, faculty at the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research (CSPR) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital described the implementation of an automated Caring Contacts texting system and found the intervention helped youth at risk for suicide feel hopeful and supported during a period of heightened risk. According to the study, this intervention and similar efforts to improve care transitions are critical to improving youth suicide prevention outcomes.

Pediatric Suicide Prevention and Risk Detection

Preventing youth suicide can happen in a primary care pediatrician’s office, at school or in community settings – not just in a mental health clinic. Nationwide Children’s Hospital is identifying opportunities to detect suicide risk and prevent suicide across different kinds of systems.

Preschool for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

Nationwide Children’s has partnered with Head Start in Franklin County to launch a Therapeutic Interagency Preschool designed to provide educational, developmental and mental health support services to preschoolers who have experienced severe abuse or neglect.