Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-Visiting Program (MECSH) Staff Education and Experience

Home visits are provided by registered nurses with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and experience with and postgraduate training in child and family health nursing (or equivalent). Supervisors must be formally trained and/or have extensive experience with reflective clinical practice, a process of contemplating experiences while they are happening and retrospectively. Health and human services professionals who support the program site must be trained to meet their profession’s local registration requirements. The developer does not have minimum requirements regarding the education or experience of management staff; agencies implement MECSH using their existing management systems.