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Learning Collaboratives - Bright Futures
...to narrow
the gap between what is and what can be for the growing population
of children and youth with special health care needs. -
NICHQ
On November 20, 2004, 15 practices throughout the country
convened to attend the first workshop of the Bright Futures
Training Intervention With Office Staff to Improve Preventive
and Developmental Services in Practice. The goal of this
project is to develop and identify specific strategies and
tools that will enable a variety of practices to implement
Bright
Futures approaches that will enhance the delivery of
preventive and developmental services to children younger
than 5 years.
The Bright Futures staff is working with The Center for
Children's Healthcare Improvement at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill on this project. The practices will
be involved in a yearlong pilot test of a curriculum and
systems change toolkit aimed at applying a Bright Futures
framework to preventive and developmental services. The
pilot framework, made up of quality improvement office systems
approaches, consists of the following 6 components:
- Use of a preventive services summary sheet
- Use of structured tools to assess the child and family’s
developmental and behavioral needs
- Evaluation of parental strengths, involvement, and
needs including assessment of protective factors
- Use of recall and reminder systems
- Linking of the child and family to appropriate community
resources and responding to population based concerns
- Use of assessment strategies at well-child visits to
identify children with special health care needs and determine
appropriate follow-up
The pilot practices will receive training and support through
workshops, conference calls, and a group email list. In
between workshops and conference calls, the practices will
apply small change strategies based on quality improvement
concepts and collect data to
measure improvement. The data collection has been designed
to be easily incorporated into a practice’s daily
routine. Once the curriculum and toolkit have been finalized,
Bright Futures plans to disseminate the training on a broader
scale.
The Bright Futures Training Intervention is supported by
The Commonwealth Fund and the Maternal and Child Health
Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration. For
more information on this project, please contact Jane Bassewitz
at jbassewitz@aap.org.
You can also view an update on the project from the Bright
Futures Newsletter by clicking
here.
Last Updated
March 14, 2007
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