Visit the Bright Futures website to access a 3-volume set of materials that will facilitate implementation of Bright Futures in the office setting using quality improvement strategies. This comprehensive resource is available for download. You can check the 3-volume set online and download only desired tools, or download the entire set of materials.

The Bright Futures training and implementation materials were funded by The Commonwealth Fund with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Project staff members from the AAP and the Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (formerly Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement at the University of North Carolina) were involved in months of continual writing, rewriting and field testing of the 3-volume set. A brief description of each volume is provided below.

Volume 1: Improving Preventive Care in Your Office-Tools for Office

Improvement: http://www.brightfutures.aap.org/clinical/volume1.html

This volume is designed to guide physician offices and other clinical teams through the development and implementation of Bright Futures to enhance the preventive care for infants, children and adolescents. These tools can be adapted by clinical sites for the age of the child, the patient population, and the local community.

Examples of tools you can access include:

·          Tips for developing a preventive services prompting system

·          Strategies for designing a recall and reminder system

·          An overview of screening tools

·          Community resources checklist

Volume 2:  Working with Practices to Improve Preventive Care-A Leader's Guide:  http://www.brightfutures.aap.org/clinical/volume2.html

The Leader's Guide was developed specifically for use in implementing the Bright Futures Training Intervention (BFTI). It was adapted from the Breakthrough Series Collaborative Manual developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality. This step-by-step guide is written for the individual who has primary responsibility for overseeing the actual implementation of the BFTI project (see below for more background), known here as the project "leader". Although the primary audience is the leader, other project staff, if applicable, also will find this guide useful in the planning and implementation of the BFTI. This guide is to be used in conjunction with Volume 1; both were designed and pilot tested by the AAP with 15 diverse practice teams from nine states.

Volume 3: Training Materials to Improve Preventive Care in Office Practice - Bright Futures Workshop Materials: http://www.brightfutures.aap.org/clinical/volume3.html

This volume contains the workshop curriculum binder contents, slide presentations, and worksheets from the two 1-day workshops held during the pilot project of the BFTI, which focused on delivery of screening and preventive services for children under age 5.

Background Information

These materials represent an outgrowth from the year-long pilot project “Bright Futures Training Intervention With Office Staff” funded by The Commonwealth Fund. The pilot project tested a framework that included six office system components:

1) Using a preventive services prompting system

2) Using structures screening to assess developmental and behavioral needs

3) Evaluating parental strengths and needs

4) Using recall and reminder systems

5) Linking to community resources

6) Identifying children with special health care needs. 

The BFTI represents a unique "office systems" approach to improving the delivery of developmental screening and preventive services for children under age 5. This collaborative learning intervention involves engaging multidisciplinary office teams from primary care practices over a period of approximately one year.  The goal is to implement, in each office setting, six of the key components and strategies listed above that embody the Bright Futures philosophy. Lessons learned from the BFTI project has served as the foundation for the new EQIPP module entitled "Educating Quality Improvement in Pediatric Practices" coming in summer 2010.

For more information, access the journal article outlining the findings of the Bright Futures Training Intervention with office staff and view a multimedia presentation of the project findings at http://www.brightfutures.aap.org/clinical/training_and_implementation_materials.html.