PAX Tools: Behavioral Support Programming for Youth Workers

08/01/2025 | PAXIS Institute |

PAX Tools is a collection of trauma-informed strategies for adults who work with or care for young people. The strategies in PAX Tools derive from evidence-based kernels, the fundamental unit of behavioral influence. Providing a menu of independent strategies offers advantages to many stakeholders and practitioners across the youth system of care. This includes youth workers, who are traditionally underserved in training and access to evidence-based programming as compared to caregivers, educators, and human service professionals. This article examines the origins and development of PAX Tools, provides evidence of positive initial outcomes for participant and practitioner, and proposes dissemination and implementation of the intervention at a population level.

Citation: Fruth, Jason & Irving, Carmen & Fechner, Andrea & Embry, Dennis. (2023). PAX Tools: Behavioral Support Programming for Youth Workers.

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