Intersectionality, Food Systems, Mental Health and Spirituality Research (Tufts COHERE)

I am co-founder of the Tufts COHERE project. This is a HRSA-funded community health worker (CHW) training program.

CHWs have a deep understanding of the communities they serve and bridge members of their communities to health care and social services. CHWs play a significant role in improving the quality of and access to health care, providing cultural understanding, and enhancing communication between communities and health care services.

The Tufts COHERE program is approved by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Certification of Community Health Workers as a certified training program as of August 2022.

Community Health Workers Engaging in Integrated Care (COHERE) is a program to train Tufts’ neighboring BIPOC community members to become community health workers (CHWs) to support community capacity building and health systems strengthening.

The COHERE program, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, will be piloted in Spring 2021. The program is housed within the Center for Health Systems and Policy (CHSP) at Tufts University School of Medicine as part of its commitment to support improvements in patient and community-centered health care, transform care delivery, and address health inequities.

To learn more about this program, visit us at:

https://sites.tufts.edu/chsp/education-and-training/community-health-workers-engaging-in-integrated-care-cohere/

“Salvation fits into a unified view of the entire world, and yet it is also gritty, localized, and contextual. It is grounded in concrete experiences of the world. It must always look, feel, and taste like something.”
― Monica A. Coleman, Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology.