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.