Bright
Futures: Nutrition Resources
Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition (2nd
ed.) (2002)
Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition (2nd
ed.) (2002) emphasizes prevention and early recognition
of nutrition concerns and provides developmentally
appropriate nutrition supervision guidelines
for infancy through adolescence. The guide contains
strategies and tools to help health professionals
provide nutrition supervision (including screening,
assessment, and counseling) and promote partnerships
with families and communities. In addition, the
guide presents the latest information on special
nutrition issues and concerns such as hyperlipidemia,
hypertension, iron-deficiency anemia, eating
disorders, obesity, sport nutrition, and vegetarian
eating practices. Tools include indicators of
nutrition risk, tips for fostering a positive
body image, and federal food assistance and nutrition
programs.
The
second edition includes recent changes in nutrition
practice and policy and a special issue chapter on
human immunodeficiency virus. In addition, the second
edition contains reproducible master copies of nutrition
questionnaires appropriate for use with families
with infants, children, and adolescents as well as
CDC growth charts.
Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition Pocket Guide (2002)
Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition Pocket Guide (2002)
is designed for health professionals and students and
serves as a quick reference for the publication Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition. It includes background
material, nutrition supervision, special issues and
concerns, and tools.
Order
Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition Pocket Guide
Click
here to view Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition
Pocket Guide
Bright
Futures Nutrition Family Fact Sheets (2002)
Bright
Futures Nutrition Family Fact Sheets (2002) are
a series of fact sheets for families that highlight
content from the publication Bright Futures in Practice:
Nutrition. These illustrated fact sheets provide information
in a question and answer format. The series are organized
by developmentally periods (birth-5 months, 6-11 months,
1-2 years, 3-4 years, 5-10 years, and 11-21 years).
The fact sheets were focus tested with families and
health professionals and edited at a 6 grade reading
level.
Click
here to view the Bright Futures Nutrition Family
Fact Sheets (English)
Click
here to view the Bright Futures Nutrition Family
Fact Sheets (Spanish)
Bright
Notes Newsletter
Bright
Notes, the newsletter for the Bright Futures
project, highlights some of the exciting and innovative
ways the nutrition guide is being used around the
country and includes project updates and descriptions
of new resources.
Bright
Futures for WIC Nutrition Services
Miller
S. 2000.
This
educator's guide provides an overview of the concepts
on which Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition is
based and explains how these concepts can be used to
train WIC personnel and develop nutrition education
materials for them. It is divided into three sections,
each of which includes relevant excerpts from Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition, commentary, and
discussion questions. The first section describes the
Bright Futures developmental approach, which is based
on the unique social and psychological characteristics
of each developmental period. The second section explains
how to promote partnerships among health professionals,
families, and communities. The third section defines
desired outcomes and outcome evaluation. This project
was sponsored by the Supplemental Food Programs Division,
Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Visit
the WIC Web site to download Bright Futures for
WIC Nutrition Services as PDF files.
Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition Newsletter Inserts
Miller
S. 2000.
These
four newsletter inserts introduce Bright Futures
in Practice: Nutrition and address how the guide
can be used in WIC. The one-page inserts can be used
in a variety of ways: (1) in state and local newsletters,
(2) as in-service handouts, (3) for posting on Web
sites, and (4) in staff mailings. This project was
sponsored by the Supplemental Food Programs Division,
Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
 Download
Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition Newsletter
Inserts as PDF files.
Maximizing
Resources for Results! Extending Bright Futures Through
Community-Based Nutrition Planning
Gregory
SP. 2000.
This
training kit introduces two publications, Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition and Moving to
the Future: Developing Community-Based Nutrition Services,
and discusses how to use them as models for implementing
nutrition services. The kit includes (1) a manual that
provides a training curriculum, activities, and trainer
tips; (2) a diskette containing electronic copies of
the training curriculum and the companion PowerPoint
slide presentation; (3) printed copies of the PowerPoint
slides; and (4) a videotape containing excerpts from Moving
to the Future: Developing Community-Based Nutrition
Services. This "train-the-trainer" program
was developed, implemented, and evaluated in U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services Region IV. The project
was sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau,
Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, as a continuing
education grant to the University of North Carolina/University
of Tennessee Public Health Nutrition Graduate Training
Project.
Please
visit the University of Tennessee Public Health
Nutrition Graduate Training Project site to download
PDF files.
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