The Bright Futures initiative is supported by a variety of materials, including detailed guidelines, questionnaires and assessments, to assist with implementing recommendations in Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 4th Edition. All materials are useful to a wide range of audiences:

  • Health care professionals in private and public health settings
  • Insurance companies
  • Parents and community members such as coaches, educators and child care professionals who participate in youth-oriented activities

Bright Futures Guidelines and Pocket Guide

An essential resource that provides health care professionals​ with updated background and recommendations for pediatric health promotion, health supervision, and anticipatory guidance for 31 age-based visits.

Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit, 2nd Edition

Health care professionals can use or adapt these materials to meet the needs of their practices and ensure they are following the recommendations presented in the Bright Futures Guidelines, 4th Edition when delivering care to patients and their families.

Bright Futures: Nutrition, 3rd Edition and Pocket Guide

Bright Futures: Nutrition, 3rd Edition focuses on health promotion and disease prevention for infants, children, adolescents, and families.

Presentations and Handouts

PowerPoint Presentations available for your use and customization when making presentations about Bright Futures.

Bright Futures Webinars

Various webinars by the editors of Bright Futures.

Bright Futures/AAP Periodicity Schedule (2024)

The Bright Futures/American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care, also known as the "Periodicity Schedule," is a schedule of screenings and assessments recommended at each well-child visit from infancy through adolescence.