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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers Bright Ideas, the Bright Futures newsletter, to health professionals, public and private partners with key health constituencies, and communities and families interested in promoting and improving the health, education, and well-being of infants, children, and adolescents. The newsletter is intended as a forum for sharing information about Bright Futures and health promotion and preventive service strategies. Bright Ideas is funded through cooperative agreement (#U04 MC 07853) from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, to the AAP. Bright Futures Steering Committee Paula M. Duncan, MD, FAAP, Chairperson, Bright Futures: Steering Committee Betsy Anderson, Federation for Children with Special Needs, Family Voices Mary Margaret Gottesman, PhD, RN, CPNP, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Joseph F. Hagan, Jr, MD, FAAP Judith S. Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN, American Pediatrics Association, Mary Story, PhD, RD, American Dietetic Association Jack Swanson, MD, FAAP Eric M. Wall, MD, MPH, American Academy of Family Physicians Federal Liaison Christopher DeGraw, MD, MPH, FAAP, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration AAP Staff V. Fan Tait, MD, FAAP, Principal Investigator, Bright Futures Education Center and Pediatric Implementation Project Edward Zimmerman, MS, Coprincipal Investigator, Bright Futures Education Center Darcy Steinberg-Hastings, MPH, Director and Coprincipal Investigator, Bright Futures Education Center and Pediatric Implementation Project Jane Bassewitz, MA, Manager, Bright Futures, Education Center Amy Pirretti, MS, Manager, Bright Futures Materials Development and Promotion Maryjo Reynolds, Product Manager, Bright Futures Sandy Szott, Program Assistant, Bright Futures Education Center Effie Tonkovic, Program Assistant, Bright Futures Education Center Copyright © 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics Any part of this newsletter may be reproduced for noncommercial educational purposes. The recommendations contained in this newsletter and in the mentioned publications do not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care. Variations, taking into account individual circumstances, may be appropriate. This newsletter discusses titles published by organizations other than the American Academy of Pediatrics. Statements and opinions expressed in these publications are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Letter from the Bright Futures Steering Committee Chairperson W e are delighted to bring you this update on our activities since the last newsletter. Most importantly, we have completed another piece in the Bright Futures family of materials. First came the Guidelines themselves and its accompanying Bright Futures Family Pocket Guide. Now, I’m pleased to announce the release of the Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit. This Kit provides essential materials that will help practitioners carry out the Guidelines efficiently and effectively. The Kit contains pre-visit questionnaires, documentation forms, patient/parent handouts, practice management tools, and screening and assessment tools. Read all about the Kit in the feature article on page 1. We couldn’t have put this valuable resource together without the help and expertise of the many child health professionals who developed and reviewed all the materials. My sincere gratitude and thanks go to all of you. Several states and communities are putting Bright Futures into practice in innovative ways, and this issue of the newsletter highlights these activities in Virginia and Dodge County, Wisconsin. Also featured in this issue is a story about the Bright Futures Family Pocket Guide, developed by Family Voices as a way to translate highlights of the Bright Futures Guidelines into a “family-friendly” resource for parents and other caregivers. Several other exciting new publications are also described in this newsletter, including Building Your Medical Home Toolkit, Tools for Working with Practices to Improve Preventive Care Using Bright Futures, Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition, and Coding for Pediatric Preventive Care 2010. I’m also happy to announce that the Bright Futures Activity Book has won a silver National Health Information Award from the Health Information Resource Center. Congratulations to those who developed this wonderful resource for parents and children! Young investigators are being encouraged to conduct research on the effectiveness of health supervision in primary care through the Academic Pediatric Association Bright Futures Young Investigators Awards Program. Details of the program are described on page 7, and the deadline for applications is October 25, 2009. Looking to the future, our work will continue to promote Bright Futures activities at the national, state, and local levels through workshops, presentations, and joint projects. We are developing a quality improvement project addressing oral health risk assessment in primary care practice. A second quality improvement project, the Bright Futures EQIPP module, will allow clinicians and their medical home teams to measurably improve their delivery of preventive services. We’ll provide more details as these projects unfold. We also want to know how you use the Guidelines and the new Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit. Do these Guidelines, tools, and resources make your work easier? Have you come up with a creative way to promote the Bright Futures messages? Have you incorporated the Guidelines and tools into your workplace? Submit your stories at the Bright Futures Web site, brightfutures.aap.org, or via e-mail at brightfutures@aap.org. We will feature some of the stories in future publications and possibly on our Web site so others can benefit from your experiences. With warmest regards, Paula M. Duncan, MD, FAAP Chairperson, Bright Futures Steering Committee
Bright Futures in Wisconsin: County’s Success Expands to State Level I n the past year, public health professionals in Dodge County, Wisconsin have worked closely with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to implement Bright Futures in their local county health system. This effort was set into motion by Gretchen Klug, RN, a public health nurse in Dodge County who was looking for an innovative way to organize and promote maternal–child health programs in her county, as well as provide a consistent framework for prevention activities that could be easily communicated to other health care practitioners. Ms. Klug was looking for a strong, credible standard of care that local public health nurses could use to support the preventive care available to children and families in their county. She was impressed by both the approach of Bright Futures and the materials available, and contacted the AAP for guidance in implementing Bright Futures in Dodge County. “This is what public health already does. Bright Futures provides us a framework, puts it into the context of what is important, and validates what public health departments have been doing for a long time” Ms. Klug said. Bright Futures staff began working with Ms. Klug and Southern Regional office staff for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, to develop a regional Bright Futures training, which was conducted in June 2008. More recently, a full-day Bright Futures training was presented at a statewide public health nursing preconference in Wisconsin. These trainings provided participants with an overview of the Bright Futures approach to preventive health care. Participants came out of the training with an understanding that effective health promotion and disease prevention require the coordinated efforts of both medical and non-medical professionals and agencies. And they saw the special role that public health nurses have in providing this coordinated preventive care. Although Bright Futures only has been in place in Dodge County for little more than a year, positive outcomes already have been observed from its implementation, including: Participants have embraced the Bright Futures approach to preventive care Bright Futures health promotion themes are evident in their daily work with families Physicians and other health care practitioners are more aware of the services that the county’s public health nurses can and do provide Although any new program faces hurdles, Ms. Klug said that Bright Futures has been very well received in Dodge County. “The AAP gives us credibility and reliability. We have been focusing on the 10 health promotion themes in Bright Futures for a long time and now the AAP has tied it all together for us.” Bright Futures now has been implemented in Dodge County because Ms. Klug took the initiative to seek out tools that support public health programs that focus on preventive care in her county. And now the Bright Futures effort has grown beyond the local level championed at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services by Murray Katcher, MD, the state’s Chief Medical Officer for Community Health Promotion and Ann Stueck, a public health nursing consultant. The next step in Wisconsin is a series of live Webcasts jointly sponsored by the AAP and the state Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health, Family Health Section. These Webcasts will focus on the needs of public health nurses and each will feature a specific Bright Futures theme. Currently the following dates and topics have been scheduled: January 21, 2010 — Bright Futures on Promoting Oral Health March 11, 2010 — Bright Futures on Promoting Healthy Weight May 27, 2010 — Bright Futures on Promoting Healthy Nutrition Additional information on these Web casts will be available at http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/phnc/ LinksToWebcasts/index.htm. ■ Volume 6 / Issue 1 / 2009 brightfutures.aap.org 3
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