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Simple Strategies for Teaching Kids Behavior

Do you want to reduce conflict? Have better relationships? Help your children manage their own behavior? You need PAX Tools!
  • PAX Tools is a collection of evidence-based, trauma informed strategies to improve cooperation and self-regulation with youth. PAX Tools draws on decades of science to create strategies that support parents, youth workers, and other caring adults to create a nurturing environment that ultimately helps kids thrive.
  • PAX Tools is intended for any caring adults who interact with children, such as parents, caregivers, professionals and volunteers. Caregivers who participate in PAX Tools trainings will receive the materials they need to effectively use PAX Tools with children, including the PAX Tools app.
  • The PAX Tools course is NOT designed for classroom teachers. 

According to over 40 years of research at places like Johns Hopkins University and Wright State University, for every 100 first graders that get the kernels in school through the PAX Good Behavior Game, we'd see some great results when they reach age 21: 
  • 7 more kids will not be smokers
  • 4 more kids will not be alcohol dependent
  • 12 more kids will not be drug dependent
  • 1 more kid will not commit violent crimes
  • 11 more kids will not need mental health services
  • 7 more girls will not feel suicidal
  • 9 more girls will graduate from high school
  • 7 more boys will attend college

What's in the PAX Toolkit?

​Tool #1 SHARED VISION ensures that young people and adults are on the same page with expectations as well as possible pitfalls for the upcoming activity.
 
Tool #2 LOW EMOTIONAL RESPONSE allows adults to provide instantaneous, neutral, nonverbal feedback for individuals without embarrassment or interruption of activity.
 
Tool #3 BEAT THE TIMER allows young people to block out distractions and stay on task to the finish.
 
Tool #4 RANDOM STICKS help in scenarios when children feel that adults are playing favorites or not being "fair."
 
Tool #5 MYSTERY MOTIVATORS jump start motivation for completing tasks and carrying out positive behavior.
 
Tool #6 KUDOS NOTES are written letters of appreciation that identify an increased behavior we want more of.
 
Tool #7 PAX BREAKS are used to stop growing tension, teach children and adults to recognize when they are getting upset, and provide emotional and physical space to calm down.
 
Tool #8 PAX AMENDS allow the adults and young people to use restorative consequences when natural and logical consequences are not available.
 
Tool #9 PAX FOCUS increases communication, expectations, and psychological safety between young people and adults as well as promotes youth self regulation.
For information about PAXTools training, email Julia Rose, Coordinator of Prevention, Education and Training, [email protected] 
​or call 937-761-2440.

24-Hour Crisis Hotline 800.351.7347

If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help,

​call the Tri-County CRISIS Hotline 800.351.7347
The 24-Hour Crisis Hotline serves residents of
Miami,
Darke, and Shelby counties in Ohio.

​Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Call or Text 988, chat at 988lifeline.org

In crisis but can't talk? Crisis Text Line
Text 4Hope to 741741

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Tri-County Board of Recovery and
​Mental Health Services
1280 N. County Road 25A, Suite #1
Troy, OH 45373
937.335.7727 | FAX 937.335.8816
​Email us at [email protected]

M-F 8:00AM - 4:30PM. Closed federal holidays.

Services provided are funded in whole or in part by your continued support of the Tri-County Mental Health Levy.
The Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer