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PAX Open House

“Welcome to PAXIS!”  This event is ideal for anyone wanting to know more about the PAX Good Behavior Game (GBG) or PAX Tools and for those currently implementing PAX in Washington State.  Dr. Dennis Embry, Lead Scientist and President of Paxis Institute will be this event’s keynote speaker. Jeanette Puskas, Lead International PAX Partner will provide a PAX overview with Q&A.  Washington state young adults will courageously share how PAX has changed their lives, with Claire Richardson, Director of Indigenous Programs, and Nancy Fiander, National PAX Trainer.  From an overview of the wide assortment of PAXIS Institute’s available resources to the latest news regarding current and future work of PAXIS Institute, this virtual Open House event will provide useful information for schools and communities.

Link to register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1504290649552705805.

Prior to the event, you can learn more about PAX GBG and PAX Tools in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShhtowDNbg&feature=youtu.be

Additional information can be found at www.paxis.org.

PAX GBG is the single most proven classroom based prevention intervention, that comes recommended by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, and the Institute of Medicine.  PAX GBG creates changes in behavior; and neurochemical, neural connectivity, and epigenetic make-up that strengthen inhibition, extend self-regulation, and improve social-emotional scaffolding. PAX is the only classroom-based strategy shown to cause the expression of brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) genes that serve as adaptive protections for young people through adulthood and into future generations.  The strategies in PAX GBG have been subjected to multiple randomized control trials and numerous peer-reviewed studies. PAX has shown to provide numerous early benefits and lifetime impacts.

Dennis D. Embry, Ph.D. is senior scientist at PAXIS Institute in Tucson Arizona and a co-investigator at Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention as well as co-investigator with the Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium, the University of Manitoba, University of South Carolina - Overseeing 50 major prevention projects in the US and Canada. He is a member of the SAMHSA/CSAP experts’ group, and a nominee for the president’s Advisory Council on Prevention for Health Care Reform. Current publications emphasize achieving sustainable, cost-efficient population-level prevention effects across physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. He is an emeritus National Research Advisory Council Senior fellow of New Zealand. Dr. Embry has personally created multiple interventions using both cultural wisdom and leading edge science to prevent multiple problems including ATOD. He has engaged in work with First People in New Zealand, the United States and Canada. He uses cultural wisdom and anthropology to inform choices of scientific strategies to better the lives of children, adolescents, families, and groups. His projects focus on simple strategies that lead to big changes. Dr. Embry marries that cultural wisdom with finding from evolutionary sciences, from his association with the National Science Foundation initiative called the EVOS Institute.   Growing up in considerable adversity and deemed “educable mentally retarded”, he uses his experiences to inform his work and tell the story of possibility for prevention for all. 

 

Date and Time: 
March 9, 2021 - 9:00am to March 29, 2024 - 3:05am
Location: 
via GoTo Webinar