Bright Futures

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Bright Futures is a national health promotion and prevention initiative, led by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported, in part, by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)​, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)​. The Bright Futures Guidelines provide theory-based and evidence-driven guidance for all preventive care screenings and well-child visits. Bright Futures content can be incorporated into many public health programs such as home visiting, child care, school-based health clinics, and many others. Materials developed especially for families are also available.​  

 Features
  • For Professionals

    • Bright Futures Implementation Tip Sheets

      These NEW and UPDATED tip sheets offer practical advice to help you integrate the Bright Futures approach, tools and resources into your daily practice.Learn more

    • Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit, 2nd Edition NEW!

      Completely updated Toolkit corresponding with the Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition, with key documents that work as an integrated system to assist a health care professional carry out an efficient Bright Futures health supervision visit.Learn more

    • Bright Futures Guidelines

      At your fingertips, this manual provides the most respected recommendations for the top 12 areas of child development in 1 volume, along with the most up-to-date well-child supervision standards by visit. PDF versions are now available for reference.Learn more

    • Medical Screening Reference Tables

      The tables provide an easy-to-use reference table for each Bright Futures well-child visit. Each table compiles the relevant history, risk assessment questions, and action to take if the risk assessment shows a positive result.Learn more

    • Bright Futures Webinars

      Make sure to sign up for the latest Bright Futures webinars beginning in April 2017. Learn about the revised and updated Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition from the editors themselves. Learn more

    • Bright Futures EQIPP Courses

      These courses are designed to help physicians interpret the Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents into everyday practice, with practical suggestions for implementation.Learn more

    • Implementing Bright Futures in Public Health

      Professionals can hear recorded audio stories of Bright Futures implementations and read highlights of how Bright Futures is being used by state agencies as the standard for well-child care and as essential content throughout many public health programs. Learn more

    • Performing Preventive Services

      Designed to accompany Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 3rd Edition, this manual provides effective ways to deliver the preventive services that are suggested in the Guidelines.Learn more
  • For Families

    • The Well-Child Visit: Why Go and What to Expect

      This NEW handout, The Well-Child Visit: Why Go and What to Expect, helps families prepare for their regular check-ups. This tip sheet is available in English and Spanish.Learn more

    • Bright Futures Activity Book—Available in English and Spanish

      To encourage parent-child interaction, the Bright Futures Activity Book provides a fun, informative, and interactive overview of the 10 themes from the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 3rd Edition.Learn more

 Highlights and Announcements

  • November 11, 2019

    CATCH Grant Opportunities

    ​Grants of up to $10,000 for pediatricians and fellowship trainees and $2,000 for pediatric residents are available for innovative initiatives.

    For more information, click here. 

  • November 11, 2019

    ​HPV Vaccination Update Webinar Recording Available

    The 2019 HPV Vaccination Update: Support for Your Office Efforts webinar recording is available, and you can earn credit for enduring CME and MOC Part 2. It focuses on the most recent HPV associated cancer statistics, motivational interviewing tips for talking with parents, and understanding the FDA's decision to extend the use of the vaccine up to 45 years of age. Watch the recording here.

  • November 8, 2019

    PCO Webinar—Introducing the New ADHD Clinical Practice Guideline from the AAP

    Don't miss this this month's free Pediatric Care Online (PCO) webinar:

    Introducing the NEW AAP Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Children and Adolescents 

    Friday, November 22, 2019 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST

    The objectives of this webinar include:

    1. Review the 2019 ADHD clinical practice guideline revision and its Key Action Statements.

    2. Describe the clinical care algorithm for primary care management.

    3. Assess existing barriers to care—do they provide opportunities?

    To view the webinar on Friday, November 22, please click here or use the following url: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1270510&tp_key=f429e2eebb

  • November 8, 2019

    New AAP Resource: Supporting Youth who are Addicted to Nicotine

    The AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence and Section on Tobacco Control are pleased to share a new resource, "Supporting Youth who are Addicted to Nicotine: Advice for Pediatricians." This resource is intended to help pediatricians talk with youth about nicotine addiction, and support them in attempts to quit using tobacco and e-cigarettes. You can access the resource here. For more information about addressing tobacco and e-cigarettes in practice, please visit the AAP Richmond Center webpage. 

  • November 7, 2019

    ​Webinar: Addressing Health Disparities in the LGBTQ Community

    This webinar explored the drivers of health disparities in the LGBTQ+ community, and what we can do to close those gaps through initiatives inside and outside of the health system. Speakers discussed:

    • How discrimination and violence leveled at the LGBTQ+ community translates into stress and physical health problems
    • An evidence-based toolkit for medical students and providers shown to improve clinical skills like gender affirming care
      (CME credit available)

    Findings from the first national survey on LGBTQ youth mental health and resources to address high rates of mental illness and suicidal ideations

  • November 4, 2019

    ​View the new Young Leaders Visualize Heath Equity Art Gallery

    The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) asked young leaders, age 5-26, to illustrate how the social determinants of health — factors in the environment where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age — shape their lives and the lives of those closest to them.

    The resulting art gallery, Young Leaders Visualize Health Equity (YLVHE), features over 175 submissions, including paintings, drawings, poems, and videos, with valuable insights from young people across the country.  

    Click here to view the art gallery. 

  • November 1, 2019

    ​New Resource from the Adolescent Health Initiative (AHI)

    AHI has developed a new Community Resource Guide for health centers. This guide is a simple, writeable PDF that sites can customize with sections including sexual health services, mental health services, afterschool programs, school-based health, or nutrition services. Health centers and youth-serving community-based organizations alike can populate the template with their community’s resources and either make it available for adolescents, or use it for their own internal use

    To access this resource, and view other resources from the Adolescent Health Initiative, click here. 

  • November 1, 2019

    ​Webinar: Health in Rural America: Innovative Solutions to Address Disparities

    Date: November 13, 2019

    Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm ET

    This webinar will explore:

    • The current rural health landscape and federal strategies to improve rural health
    • Innovative initiatives to respond to unmet social needs, address provider shortages and expand telehealth in Arkansas and Texas
    • The impact of rurality on maternal and child health and approaches to managing access issues

  • November 1, 2019

    ​AAP News: Top 10 Ways Busy Pediatricians Can Support Breastfeeding

    The CDC Breastfeeding Report Card showed that initiation rates are high at 83.2%. However, less than 50% of those infants were exclusively breastfed through 3 months.

    This AAP News article highlights 10 important strategies that pediatricians can use to support breast feeding. 

    Click here to access the article. 

  • November 1, 2019

    ​Webinar: Pediatric Coding Updates--Stay Current for 2020

    Date: Nov. 11, 2019

    Time: 12pm CT

    Presenter: David Kanter, MD, CPC, FAAP 

    Several new updates to the ICD-10-CM and CPT code set will greatly impact pediatrics. To avoid denials and payment delays, be sure you are up to date on the current coding! 

    This webinar will go over relevant pediatric ICD-10CM codes such as travel counseling, more specific codes for adenosine deaminase [ADA] deficiency and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and many others. Specific examples on the use of the most common CPT codes for pediatrics will be presented. 

    Learn more and register here.

  • November 1, 2019

    ​AAP Richmond Center Funding Opportunity: New Investigator Grants

    The AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence is happy to announce a call for applicants for the New Investigator Grant Program. New Investigator grants are designed to stimulate involvement of pediatricians and other child health researchers in innovative research to protect children from tobacco smoke exposure. The program provides one-year grants of up to $12,000 to new faculty, fellows, and residents to conduct research related to children and secondhand/thirdhand smoke. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis; preference is given to studies with the potential to lead to future, larger-scale research. Preliminary applications are due Dec. 2, 2019. Selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals, which will be due Feb. 7, 2020. 

    For more information, visit the Richmond Center Website.

  • October 31, 2019

    ​Recruiting for Healthy Weight Quality Improvement Projects​

    The AAP's Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight (in partnership with the Bright Futures National Center) is excited to offer two brief, virtual quality improvement projects for pediatric practice/clinic teams, that will kick off in January of 2020. The project offerings will focus on:

    • Option 1: Improving obesity risk assessment and prevention (focused on children ages 2 and above) in the Childhood Obesity in Primary Care (COPC) Project
    • Option 2: Improving early feeding assessment, counseling and obesity prevention (focused on children under age 2) in the Optimize Infant and Toddler Feeding for Obesity Prevention Project.

    During each project, participating teams collaborate with one another and receive education, coaching, and resources from national experts in obesity prevention, assessment, and counseling. Pediatricians who meet participation requirements may be eligible for Maintenance of Certification points and CME credits (if approved).

    We are recruiting teams that represent diverse types of practices/clinics (eg, Community Health Centers/Federally Qualified Health Centers, group or solo practices, medical school-affiliated, government, non-government, or non-profit clinics, etc.), patient populations and geographic locations, that are interested in making practice changes to improve their obesity assessment and prevention care.  Teams will be selected based on a brief, online application. The application period for both will close on November 25, 2019.

    We encourage you to learn more about each project before applying since each team will be asked to select only one of the two projects at the beginning of the online application.  
    For more information about both projects and/or to apply for one of the projects, please click here: https://ihcw.aap.org/Pages/QI.aspx 

    If you have any questions about either of these projects, please contact Stephanie Womack at swomack@aap.org or 630.626.6612. 

  • October 22, 2019

    ​What's the Latest with the Flu - October 2019

    The AAP policy statement "Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Children, 2019–2020" offers updated recommendations for routine use of seasonal influenza vaccines and antiviral medications for the prevention and treatment of influenza in children. The AAP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continue to recommend annual influenza immunization of all children without medical contraindications, starting at 6 months of age.

    The AAP launched a new “Say Boo to the Flu” social media campaign that includes graphics for Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. The AAP will use #FluBeforeBoo to encourage everyone to get their flu shot before Halloween. The AAP will also be utilizing the hashtags #Ivax2Protect, #VaccinesWork, and #FightFlu throughout the 2019-2020 flu season. Visit the AAP Immunizations web page for additional information and sample tweets that can be shared on your own social media accounts.

    For more information about flu prevention at the AAP, visit www.aap.org/disasters/flu.

  • October 22, 2019

    ​New Infographic: Addressing Social Determinants of Health

    ​The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) released a new infographic titled "Addressing Social Determinants of Health Can Improve Community Health & Reduce Costs". The infographic offers an overview of the social determinants of health, their implications for health outcomes and costs, and solutions to address unmet needs.

    To see this infographic, and other infographics by the NIHCM, click here. 

  • October 21, 2019

    Safe and Sound: Responding to the Experiences of Children Adopted or in Foster Care

    Children and youth who have experienced trauma and adversity need the adults in their lives to recognize and understand how those events may affect their lives—especially their development and behavior. Safe and Sound: Responding to the Experiences of Children Adopted or in Foster Care was developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics with support from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and Jockey Being Family. This informational series targets the adults in the lives of these children and youth: parents, caseworkers, early education and child care providers, teachers, counselors, and others. The series examines—from diverse perspectives—the effects of early trauma, strategies on how to address the effects, and resources for more information and help.

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