You Are Your Own First Client - February 12, 2027

Michele Stewart-Copes is CEO of SEET Consultants, LLC, System for Education Equity & Transition and a national trainer and consultant in system of care and culturally responsive coaching. She holds the National Supervisor/Coach Wraparound Certification, a Master of Science degree in Guidance & Counseling and a Master of Social Work degree. She developed and managed the nation’s first successful wraparound effort within an inner-city area, focused on Puerto Rican and African American neighborhoods in Hartford, CT. She has provided wraparound training and coaching in twenty states and Canada.

 As Community Coordinator with the Department of Public Health Office of Minority Health, she formulated the behavioral health agenda for the Multicultural Health Advisory Commission. While chairing the Workforce Development Committee of the Connecticut Multicultural Health Partnership she organized behavioral health policy planning and identified mental health service gaps. As Senior Coach and Trainer for the international consulting firm, Vroon VanDenBerg LLP, she facilitated the work of the U.S. National Wraparound Initiative, NWI.

 As Adjunct Professor, she taught the Cultural & Linguistic Competency class in the Master of Public Health Program at Southern Connecticut State University. As Trainer with the World of Difference Office of the Anti-Defamation League, she worked with teachers and students to increase cross cultural skills. She was appointed to the Community Development and the Ethics Commission of New Britain, the National Partnership for Action’s New England Regional Health Equity Council, is a Fellow of the Connecticut Faith Based Community Development Leadership Institute, is a member of the Governor’s Council on Women & Girls Steering Committee and was the first African American elected to the New Britain Board of Education.

 As a contractor with Carelon Behavioral Health, she trains, develops, implements, and evaluates culturally responsive organizational policies and procedures based on CLAS, Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services, standards to improve behavioral health outcomes for families. She is a senior trainer for the New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center. SEET Consultants LLC, is a certified vendor with Brown University and the CT Department of Administrative Services Supplier Diversity Program.

Tyrone Jackson, CTCC, CPRS, CHW, is a Master Reiki Practitioner, life and spiritual coach, consultant, breathwork practitioner, philosopher, and teacher. He is the owner of Honoring The Self, where he provides coaching and instruction in holistic approaches to personal growth, wellness, well-being, meditation, and Reiki. For the past year, he has served as Wellness Coordinator at RI Children, Youth, and Families. Previously, he spent four years with the Parent Support Network of RI, through 2025, as a Spiritual Wellness and Policy Advisor, supporting families navigating children’s behavioral health services within the Rhode Island System of Care and contributing to related policy efforts. His experience also includes supporting fathers as a co-facilitator with the RI Fatherhood Initiative, advancing wellness and personal growth, elevating the importance of lived experience through the RI Health Planning Committee, and co-facilitating Certified Peer Recovery Specialist training.

 Tyrone has advocated before Rhode Island state policy committees for the inclusion of lived-experience perspectives in policy decision-making. He works to highlight the need for individuals with lived experience to have a meaningful role on system-of-care boards and in related meetings. A central goal of his training work is to advance trauma literacy through personal growth and self-awareness, helping strengthen the resilience and effectiveness of professionals in human services and individuals in other fields.

 Tyrone’s work is dedicated to empowering individuals and advancing holistic well-being. Through his coaching practice, training, advocacy, and community engagement, he seeks to create meaningful, positive change in the lives of others.