PAX Good Behavior Game

The Greene County ESC’s Nationally Trained PAX GBG™ Partners support teacher’s implementation of PAX Good Behavior Game™ through in-classroom modeling, coaching, data collection & analysis. PAX Partners work with teachers and administrators to integrate PAX into existing PBIS strategies and programing. Integration brings the PBIS philosophy to life in the everyday activities and interventions teachers use throughout their teaching day. This helps teachers grow nurturing classroom environments, foster social-emotional health and dramatically improve students’ attention and focus to academic tasks.

 

The PAX Good Behavior Game™ (PAX GBG) teaches students self-regulation, self-control and self-management while collaborating with others for peace, productivity, health & happiness.

 

PAX GBG™ is an environmental intervention used in the classroom with children to create an environment that is conducive to learning. PAX GBG™ nurtures self-regulation in peer-contexts in order to improve attention and reduce impulsivity, thus wiring the brain during any school activity for long-term gain. PAX GBG™ is designed to reduce off-task behavior; increase attentiveness; and decrease aggressive and disruptive behavior and shy and withdrawn behavior. The intervention has been shown to improve academic success, as well as mental health and substance use outcomes later in life.

 

Amanda is the ESC’s Grant Manager. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies and Sociology from the University of Delaware in 2008, and received a Master’s Degree in Law and Social Policy from the University of Delaware in 2011. She previously worked as the Sexual Assault Network of Delaware Coordinator, collaborating with multiple statewide stakeholders on addressing the needs of sexual assault victims as well as the sexual assault prevention. For over 2 years she managed substance abuse prevention programs, including statewide Fetal Alcohol Spectrum disorders and Alcohol Prevention among young adults and teens, as well creating as a statewide coalition to promote substance abuse prevention. Prior to that, she was a community health educator, conducting sexual health and wellness presentations ranging from STI/Pregnancy prevention to healthy relationships. Amanda also worked with college campus groups on volunteer opportunities in the community. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Benjamin McLukie Memorial award at the University of Delaware as an outstanding senior Sociology major, as well as the Nellie Thompson Rudd Award for scholarship, leadership and service in Women’s Studies. She moved to Ohio from the state of Delaware in January of 2014, and shortly after joined the ESC to manage the Safe Schools / Healthy Students Grant.

SSHS Grant Manager

(937) 767-1303 x 1124

Anya is a Licensed Independent Social Worker Supervisor in the State of Ohio and is an Ohio Department of Education School Social Work certification. She has been working in the mental health field since 1989, has been with the Greene ESC since 1996, and has been the Program Supervisor for the School-Based Mental Health Program since it began in 2000. Anya is responsible for the School-based Mental Health Program’s development, implementation, and clinical supervision, as well as consultation and crisis support with all eight Greene County school districts. The School-Based Mental Health Program is designed to provide mental health counseling services to the children in the natural environment of the school.

Anya has been an Adjunct Instructor at Wright State University since 2002, teaching courses in the Departments of Social Work and Teacher Education. In addition, Anya became a certified National Trainer and Partner of the PAX Good Behavior Game™ in 2006, a certified trainer of TECIP (Traumatic Event Crisis Intervention Plan) in 2012, and Trauma Informed Care trainer in 2014. Anya is currently involved in two SAMHSA grants, one which has been funded since 2010, the Prevention Practice in Schools Grant which is implementing the PAX Good Behavior Game™, and a Safe Schools Healthy Students grant implemented with OMHAS starting in 2013 which focuses on 5 elements related to enhancing the social emotional well being of youth in Greene County.

School-Based Mental Health Program Director

(937) 767-1303 ext. 1131