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Bright Futures Family Materials

The following materials are available on the
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Bright Futures Nutrition Family Fact Sheets
Description:
Winner of the 2003 American Dietary Association’s Nutrition Circle of Excellence Award, Bright Futures Nutrition Family Fact Sheets provide families with important and easy-to-read information concerning their infants, child’s, or adolescent’s nutrition as well as resources for nutrition information. Also available in Spanish.


Product Highlights:
This information was adapted from Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition and is organized by age to provide families with all the latest information concerning nutrition and issues related to it. This can help families discuss with health professionals issues and concerns they have about their child’s nutrition.

Bright Futures Encounter Forms for Families
Description:
Bright Futures Encounter Forms for Families are forms that outline what to expect at a given well-child visit as well as suggested developmentally appropriate topics that parents may want to discuss with their pediatrician. Also available in Spanish.

Product Highlights:
Bright Futures Encounter Forms for Families help parents learn what to expect at each well-child visit and how to prepare for the next visit in terms of the types of questions and concerns to talk over with their pediatrician or health professional as well as ways to prepare for the next stage of development.

Bright Futures Activity Book
Description:
The Bright Futures Activity Book is a coloring book that teaches young children about health and safety. Also available in Spanish.

Product Highlights:
This product provides information about nutrition, fitness, self-expression, safety and oral health in a fun, child-friendly way. It promotes great discussions while encouraging reading, coloring, drawing, and filling in the blanks.

Bright Futures: What to Expect and When to Seek Help
A set of Bright Futures tools designed to help families and service providers from a range of disciplines support the healthy social and emotional development of children and adolescents.

Product Highlights:

The tools are based on Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health, the four developmental tools offer framework for providers and families to begin a conversation together about how best to support healthy social and emotional development in children and teens.

Bright Futures Family Tip Sheets
Description:
The Bright Futures Family Tip Sheets are divided into the four stages of development: infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. For each stage, there are 6 pages of information on topics such as health professional visits, social development, safety and physical activity, as well as information specific to the developmental stage.

Product Highlights:
This information can provide families with important and easy-to-read information on their children’s health as well as increase awareness of developmental changes children experience as they grow.

Bright Futures Health Record
Description:
Bright Futures Health Record is a convenient form for parents to record information about a child’s growth and development and immunizations from birth through age 6. Also available in Spanish.

Product Highlights:
This health record also lists issues that the family may want to discuss with their health professional in a family friendly format.

Last Updated July 15, 2008

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