Tufts Community Health Workers Engaging in Integrated Care (COHERE)

Apply to our Spring 2025 COHERE Program here!

Tufts Community Health Workers Engaging in Integrated Care (COHERE) is a program to train Tufts’ neighboring community members that have been economically and socially marginalized to become community health workers (CHWs). Our efforts aim to support community capacity building and health systems strengthening. The overall mission for Tufts COHERE is to increase the diversity of community members that become CHWs to promote health equity and improve health care access in underserved communities. Our commitment is to improve the linguistic capacity and representation of marginalized identities within the health care workforce serving our neighborhoods.

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. To learn more about the importance of CHWs within patient-centered, transdisciplinary primary care models, read Tufts Center for Health Systems and Policy’s 2020 report.

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. Funding is provided by the Tufts Public Health Program and HRSA Grant #T29HP46737.

Learn more about the different tracks within the COHERE training program and how to apply!

Track 1: New CHWs
Track 2: Upskilling Current CHWs
Track 3: Boston EMS apprenticeship
How to apply  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Contact information: cohere@tufts.edu