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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 health supervision 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.
Bright Futures Guidelines provide a common framework for well-child care from birth to age 21.
With Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes!
Put Bright Futures into practice to promote health at the state and community levels.
Families use Bright Futures as a framework to partner with professionals about their children’s health.
Find information, tools and links to networks and resources for practitioners wishing to participate in quality improvement (QI) efforts. The information found here can be used at the practice level to address desired health outcomes of importance to the children and families in a particular practice, health care system, community or state.
Speakers with state health departments, AAP Chapters, clinicians and others who work in the field of maternal and child health share their lessons learned about the use of the Bright Futures Guidelines, tools and related resources in brief audio records.
See the latest in Bright Futures including new resources and opportunities by checking out our Bright Futures eNews page.
Find out how you can get in touch with us for more information about the Bright Futures National Center.
The AAP invites pediatric health care professionals to join the Maternal-infant Health and Opioid Use Round Table Discussions. This interactive series will delve into recovery-friendly care for parent-infant dyads with prenatal opioid exposure and/or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.
Presented by USPHS CDR Micah Woodard, LICSW, BCD, C-CATODSW, Indian Health Service Sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Indian Health Special Interest Group (SIG)
This webinar will provide an overview of how new approaches to School-Based behavioral health services can address disparities and inequities in access to care for American Indian and Alaska Native Youth. Child and teen health care providers have insufficient knowledge and experience providing individual and group-based preventive and therapeutic mental health services in school- and community-based settings. The presentation will cover case studies demonstrating applications of creative approaches that support at-risk youth. Methods and approaches to developing programs with minimal resources and expanded collaborative partnerships will also be discussed. Continuing Education Credit is available
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 @ 1 pm CST Register
The National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home (NRC-PFCMH) is offering a FREE PediaLink course, Addressing Equity for Black CYSHCN. This course examines factors impacting equitable health care for Black children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN).
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
The purpose of the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children program is to support innovative, community-based initiatives to improve the health of infants, children, adolescents, and their families in rural and other underserved communities by increasing their access to preventive care and services.
Technical assistance call is scheduled for Friday, July 29, 2022 2–3 pm ET. (Read the full announcement for more details.)
Watch a recorded coffee talk hosted by Lisa Shulman, MD, FAAP, and Sara Del Campo de Gonzalez, MD, FAAP. This video focuses on how to use and implement Learn the Signs. Act Early. communication tools within your practice. Practice implementation is demonstrated using case studies and questions and answers from audience members.
The AAP PediaLink course, Recovery-Friendly Care for Families Affected by Opioid Use Disorder, educates pediatric health care professionals about best practices in caring for, and supporting families affected by opioid use disorder after discharge from the birthing hospital, and through the infants’ third birthday. Course units are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit and Maintenance of Certification Part 2 points.
The 2022 Bright Futures/AAP Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care, also known as the Periodicity Schedule, will be published in the July 2022 issue of Pediatrics (released online on June 21st). The Bright Futures/AAP Periodicity Schedule is updated annually. Be sure to check the date in the top right corner to ensure that you are referencing the most updated version.
In addition to the 2022 Bright Futures/AAP Periodicity Schedule, the 2022 Coding for Pediatric Preventive Care booklet has been revised and is available online and in print. This complementary resource contains comprehensive listings of codes and services that coincide with the 2022 Bright Futures/AAP Periodicity Schedule.
If you have questions about the 2022 Bright Futures/AAP Periodicity Schedule or 2022 Coding booklet or would like to receive a few hard copies to share with your clinics, colleagues, students, or families, contact us.
The National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home (NRC-PFCMH) hosted a FREE 2-part webinar series examining the behavioral and mental health systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the role of medical home within that system.
In this Pediatrics On Call episode, Rachel Moon, MD, FAAP, associate editor of digital media for the journal Pediatrics, shares a research roundup from the May issue. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk with Richard Chung, MD, FAAP, member of the AAP Committee on Adolescence as well as the Bright Futures Steering Committee, about ways to assess mental health of children and teens within the medical home. Listen here for all of the podcast episodes.
The Bright Futures National Center is excited to announce the launch of a new PediaLink course titled, Bright Futures - Building Positive Parenting Skills Across Ages. The purpose of this course is to provide residents, nursing trainees and other pediatric health care professionals the knowledge and skills to provide parental support and advice. Pediatric health care professionals play a vital role in reinforcing parenting skills by providing developmentally appropriate parenting advice and support as well as modeling parenting skills during the health supervision visit. This course includes scenarios to apply key concepts to address common behavioral concerns and ameliorate parental stress. The course is free to the general public, including non-AAP members. Learners who will only be required to create an AAP login (if they don't already) to obtain access to the course.
Experts have joined forces to create this unique resource. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death in youth aged 10 - 24 years. This Blueprint highlights suicide risk-reducing strategies for use in pediatric care and youth community settings.
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