PAX at Nationwide Children's Hospital
What is PAX?
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.
PAX strategies are preventative and appropriate for all children. Research shows that children from PAX classrooms have improved mental health and school outcomes.
- PAX Good Behavior Game is implemented by teachers and other school staff as part of routine instruction. Staff receive training from a certified professional on the delivery of universal, classroom-based strategies that can easily be integrated into the daily school environment.
- PAX Tools are used by adults (e.g., caregivers and youth workers) in settings outside of schools.
For more information about PAX Good Behavior Game and PAX Tools, including long-term outcomes associated with PAX Good Behavior Game, visit the PAXIS Institute website.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital partners with select elementary schools to deliver the PAX Good Behavior Game.
Partner schools receive training from PAXIS Institute and may also receive assistance from partnering organizations and/or Nationwide Children’s PAX Prevention team. The team is trained to provide support for teachers and school administration in effectively delivering the program to students. They may also work closely with schools to share resources and referrals for students who require additional behavioral health or school support.
In collaboration with many partners across the state, Nationwide Children’s has provided consultation support for PAX Good Behavior Game efforts in nine counties and close to 600 classrooms over the last six years. Our support has helped improve classroom functioning, as evidenced by reductions in reported and observed behavioral concerns within classrooms.
Nationwide Children’s PAX Prevention team is trained to deliver community workshops in PAX Tools. Our team can deliver PAX Tools workshops and/or provide support to other organizations in delivery of workshops. Some of the settings and populations these workshops benefit include:
- Caregivers
- Staff who work in youth serving agencies
- Camp counselors
- After-school settings
- Select non-teaching staff in schools (e.g., transportation staff)
Statewide Supports and Resources
With support from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, with a grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Nationwide Children’s is leading a statewide project that includes conducting an evaluation of PAX GBG and PAX Tools in Ohio and piloting infrastructure activities to inform recommendations.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Miami University Discovery Center and collaborating project partners are conducting a statewide assessment to better understand PAX Good Behavior Game® and PAX Tools implementation, reach, successes, challenges, funding and needs. There are opportunities to have your voice heard via surveys, interviews and focus groups.
Are you a:
- PAX-trained K-6 teacher?
- PAX administrator?
- PAX Tools user?
- PAX Partner?
- PAX Tools Community Educator?
- PAX Leader of a Community Organization?
If yes, you can participate in the survey linked below.
This project includes activities designed to sustain PAX Good Behavior Game and PAX Tools. Many of these pilot activities inform strategies that can help schools, community organizations and other statewide agencies maintain PAX in Ohio.
Opportunities are listed below. To learn more, please contact us at PaxGoodBehaviorGame@NationwideChildrens.org.
PAX Trainings
PAX Good Behavior Game teacher trainings, PAX Heroes, Next Steps and PAX Partner trainings are offered to help sustain the program in schools where teachers have already been trained. PAX Tools Community Educator Trainings are being offered to support the delivery of PAX Tools workshops. Trainings are being offered at no cost and available statewide. There are also opportunities for site-specific trainings.
- Click here to view training opportunities. Additional opportunities will be added in the future.
- Email our team to learn more about limited site-specific training opportunities.
View PAX Training Opportunities
Professional Development - Consultation Skills for PAX Partners and PAX Tools Community Educators
PAX Partners can play an important role in sustaining PAX Good Behavior Game efforts. This grant will pilot professional development modules about school-based consultation strategies. Similarly, PAX Tools Community Educators, who are trained to present PAX Tools workshops, are important to sustaining PAX Tools efforts. Content will include topics such as, considerations in delivering feedback to professionals, implementation support and equity considerations in consultation.
- If you are interested in being one of the first to pilot these professional development modules and join a community of practice for PAX Partners on effective consultation skills, please complete our participant interest form.
Complete Professional Development Module Interest Form
Communities of Practice
A Community of Practice brings together professionals around a particular topic or interest and is a space for shared learning, discussion and connection. This project includes:
- A statewide community of practice, with the goal of determining the future needs for support and shared learning. If you are interested in joining one of the upcoming sessions, please use this link to choose the sessions that interest you.
- In the spring, we will launch community of practice sessions focused on PAX Partners and practices they can implement in their respective organizations.
PAX Forum
Forum will be held in September 2024. More details to follow. Please contact PaxGoodBehaviorGame@NationwideChildrens.org for more information about the PAX Forum.
Nationwide Children’s partners with: Discovery Center, Miami University; Ohio University Center for Intervention Research in Schools; PAXIS Institute; Miami University School-Based Center of Excellence; Ohio Mental Health Network for School Success; Prevention Action Alliance; and Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
The statewide evaluation and infrastructure efforts are funded by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services with a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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