APPENDICES

Resources

Bright Futures Education Center and
Pediatric Implementation Project

The Bright Futures Education Center (BFEC) implements strategies to enhance health professionals’ prevention and health promotion efforts for infants, children, and adolescents, as well as to enhance health professionals’ recognition and implementation of the Bright Futures guidelines. BFEC activities include revising Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents; providing training and continuing education on prevention and health promotion content and philosophy; updating key Bright Futures guidelines and tools; developing and implementing an evaluation plan to assess and monitor efforts; creating and distributing a tool kit of Bright Futures materials; and tracking collaboration and partnerships of key child health constituencies and Bright Futures supporters. The Bright Futures Pediatric Implementation Project (PIP) aims to improve prevention and health promotion practices among all child and adolescent health professionals through the effective implementation of the Bright Futures guidelines by developing practical strategies and tools to overcome obstacles to prevention and health promotion services within the medical home and to improve access to these services for children at the community and system levels. The BFEC and the PIP are funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau and are located at the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Bright Futures Education Center and Pediatric Implementation Project
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Boulevard
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098
(847) 434-4223
(847) 228-7320 (fax)
E-mail: brightfutures@aap.org
Web site: http://www.brightfutures.aap.org