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Multi-sector Workforce Development with Population-level Prevention
Jason Fruth, Carmen Irving, Andrea Fechner, Dennis Embry

Abstract
Workforce development and retention provide significant barriers for education, human services, and out-of-school time sectors. PAX Good Behavior Game and PAX Tools provide a proposed solution to the unique development and retention needs in these fields. PAX Good Behavior Game and PAX Tools are trauma-informed, evidence-based preventive interventions with proven effectiveness in randomized efficacy trials, real-world applications, and now, population-level implementations. Beginning in 2019, the state of Texas Health and Human Services Commission supported a statewide initiative to provide training in PAX programming to educators, human service professionals, and youth development professionals. This provided skills training in improving outcomes for over 10,000 Texas youth-serving professionals. The ongoing initiative and subsequent PAX programming elicited positive perceptions from participants, including appropriateness for the setting and population as well as support for the needs of the young people they serve – especially those with behavioral needs.

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