Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:30am - 12:45pm
Room 609
Concurrent Session:
Model Coherency: A Look Inside Its Most Recent Formulation
Model Coherency: A Look Inside Its Most Recent Formulation
A coherent service model is derived from the real, primary, and urgent needs of the people to be served, and all of its processes would match harmoniously with each other and with the content so as to facilitate effective address of those needs. The model coherency tool can be used to teach SRV, to design services, and to assess service programs. Since the release of Dr. Wolfensberger’s three volume text, Model coherency: The key to human service quality, a number of SRV practitioners have committed to studying and utilizing the SRV-related service construct of Model Coherency. In addition to providing a brief overview of the construct itself, this presentation will detail how Model Coherency has been used since the 2021 publication, why the construct is significant, and how one might use the concept. The presenters will share key lessons that have been learned such as the benefits of using Model Coherency in the evaluation of ‘soft services’ and other complex service models.
Presenters
Erica Baker-Tinsley​
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Erica Baker-Tinsley is a Professor and Coordinator of the Developmental Services Worker Program at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Before this, she worked as a Family Support Coordinator providing support to people with intellectual disabilities and their families. Over the past 25 years, she has been involved in teaching SRV to service workers, administrators, families, and students at both high school and post-secondary levels. Erica is committed to community development approaches where all members are welcomed and supported and has engaged in advocacy work promoting inclusive education, food security, and affordable, secure housing. Erica has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Disability Studies from Ryerson University and a Master of Arts Degree in Community Development from the University of Victoria. She is currently a Board Director of the Southern Ontario Training Group, and a member of the North American SRV Council.​
Marc Tumeinski
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Marc Tumeinski, PhD, is a trainer with the SRV Implementation Project, helping to teach workshops throughout the US and Canada primarily. As a service worker, he has supported children and adults with physical and/or intellectual impairments, as well as mental disorder, at home, school and work. Marc is particularly interested in the use of PASSING as an SRV teaching and evaluation tool and has developed multiple formats for preparing PASSING team leaders and report writers, and for using PASSING. He has also began studying, teaching and using the most recent formulation of the Model Coherency construct developed by Wolfensberger. Marc is the founding Editor of The SRV Journal and of SRV News and Reviews, published twice a year, containing original articles, vignettes, book and film reviews, etc. on topics related to SRV and PASSING.