About Us

F.A.I.T.H. FINDING ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTIONS THROUGH HEALING

F.A.I.T.H. Behavioral Services and Wellness Center was founded in 2017 with the intent of servicing the community with mental health services, recovery services and overall wellness services. In early 2018, F.A.I.T.H. was contacted about the need for transportation services. It was then that the transportation took a front seat, and behavioral services took a back seat. In 2019 F.A.I.T.H. Wellness Services was created. The non-profit was initially formed to service those who had transportation and food insecurities. It now offers additional services.

F.A.I.T.H. was created by two strong women, a mother and daughter partnership, who come from a family with a history of community service and charity. Brenda and Iesha Chaney are continuing a family tradition of entrepreneurship. The Chaney family is full of visionaries, who put the work in and turn visions into reality. For every business the family creates, they make sure it has a tie into the community, a way that the business can give back. Childcare for lower income families, transportation for seniors and rural communities, restaurants with food services for elderly and rural communities, wellness and mental health services, job training programs such as the Expertise Cosmetology New Paths Program that is housed in the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center. The Chaney Family is devoted to the communities they live in and serve and will leave a legacy for generations.

Leaders in Our Field

Years of training, years of experience, and a commitment to excellence. We are a skilled team of experts, possessing an impeccable record of success and a reputation that precedes us. Diligence, persistence, and the highest standards for professional conduct are what we bring to the table. F.A.I.T.H. It’s a name that means excellence. It’s a name you can trust.

Iesha Chaney is the co-founder and COO of F.A.I.T.H. Behavioral Services and Wellness Center. Being the eldest child, she was raised by a single mother and grandmother who instilled family and community values. Rooted in Las Vegas, Nevada, she aimed to advocate for a healthier and supported community. Not realizing it at the time, her start to philanthropy would begin at Smart Start Child Care Center, where she would be a teacher's aide creating positive impacts and assisting with the Smart Start Food Program.

In 2012 Iesha made the decision to go back to school and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Criminal Justice. Completing this goal led her to also achieve a Master’s Degree in Psychology. During this time, a conversation sparked an idea that became F.A.I.T.H. Behavioral Services and Wellness Center becoming a reality in 2017. Being certified as a Qualified Mental Health Associate and a Peer Recovery Support Specialist Supervisor allowed Iesha to organize a business alongside her mother. Providing resources to uplift their community by offering life skills training, employment training and opportunities, financial education, PTSD counseling, wellness and recovery coaching, peer support, and services from F.A.I.T.H. 's Food Program and Nonemergency Medical Transportation.

On June 19, 2023 was the beginning of F.A.I.T.H. ‘s Juneteenth Freedom Festival, which not only gives the community a day to celebrate freedom with live music, local performers, and food but allows other community service providers to provide information and offer their services. In 2025, Iesha’s work was not unnoticed and was chosen to be an Honorary Philanthropist. Today, with a staff of 30+ covering multiple states, she continues to move forward, unfortunately without her mother and business partner. Taking the knowledge she’s gained from her grandparents James and Willia Mae Chaney and mother Brenda Chaney, she has become an entrepreneur, giving life to other business ventures.

Brenda Chaney has worked as an administrator for the past 20 years. During her tenure as an administrator, she assisted in the administration of programs to benefit the low income and disadvantaged persons in the State of Nevada. The programs included directing the delivery of vendor supplies and equipment. Through the operation of food programs for the United States Department of Education and the State of Nevada she worked for nearly 7 years the delivery of food and supplies to food sites to disseminate foods to underprivileged children. This entailed the selection vendor for supplies and the coordination of delivery to various food sites.

The responsibilities in the administration of the food program were to ensure that the drivers were compliant in possessing a valid driver’s license, insurance, health card, CPR and first aid. The duties also included making sure that the delivery trucks were equipped with first aid kits, valid commercial insurance, commercial temperature monitoring devices, dollies and adequate refrigeration. To maintain transparency in delivery operations, compliance was adopted to comply with local, state and federal agencies. Brenda safeguarded and maintained records required by the organization.

In addition, Brenda worked with community leaders to coordinate efforts to transport citizens to their respective polling sites in Southern Nevada. These efforts included transporting eligible voters to early voting and election day sites to increase the number of persons who participate in the election process. Most recently, Brenda surveyed the residents from disadvantaged and rural areas to address the lack of transportation to and from medical necessity appointments. Since, COVID-19 there exists a widening gap in transportation services. Due to the lack of qualified drivers many patients are unable to receive transport to much needed medical appointments.

Brenda has worked with local and federal agencies to attempt to bridge the gap in services that are necessary to promote programs that bring self-sufficiency and well-being to Nevada residents. As Managing Member of F.A.I.T.H., Brenda has secured memorandums of understanding to facilitate behavioral health services to its patients and wrap around services that would include transporting to various doctors’ appointments to encourage good health and preventive care.