Welcome to the Bright Futures Well-Child Care Curriculum

This distance-learning curriculum, supported by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), consists of comprehensive training modules and provider resources intended for use by all health professionals who provide primary preventive care to infants, children, and adolescents.

With a focus on developmentally based and family-centered care, the curriculum addresses the content and delivery of well-child care, the core competencies of health promotion and disease prevention, and documentation of health care services.

Why a Bright Futures Curriculum?

Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents serves as the foundation for this curriculum. With an integrated view of physical health, as well as social and emotional well-being, the Bright Futures guidelines offer all who serve children and families a consistent standard of care and a shared vocabulary for delivery of care, needs assessment, training purposes, and policy development.

Building on the Bright Futures base, the curriculum is enriched with materials from the following national and professional groups:

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Office of Minority Health (OMH)
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD)
• American Dental Association (ADA)
• National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
• And many more