Kellye Winbush Fairley

Kellye M. Winbush is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst with expertise in leading change across the systems, in collaboration with other leaders. She is the Owner/Founder of Key to Hope, LLC. Key to Hope is an organization that provides quality behavioral therapeutic services to adults, adolescents, and children living with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and traumatic brain injury through the DHS Medicaid waiver program. The lists of businesses she’s partnered with through Key to Hope are: I Can Dream Center, Posen-Robbins School District 143.5, South Chicago Parents and Friends, Progressive Therapeutics, Blue Island Citizens for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (Blue Cap), Solid Ground Behavior Services, Good Sheppard, Anixter Center, Community Alternatives Unlimited, Community Service Options, Suburban Access.

She held a contract with Progressive Careers and Housing Inc and was hired on as a full-time employee to help them bring their behavioral services in-house. She played a rather important role in reinstating the department that had been previously dismantled due to changes within the company. Kellye built out the departmental operations and got it up and fully functioning in a span of 30 days. She created a uniform system for a team of behavior analysts to apply to their caseloads in regard to everyday operations. She augmented the behavior data collection across the agency. She assisted in the selection, onboarding and mentoring of clinical and support staff thus aiding the Illinois state credentialing process.

She has been previously associated with various organizations. She also has a background in clinical psychology. She has developed strong physician relationships and engendered trust. Her past success in physician alignment with the history of developing physician leaders and therapists in assisting with coordination of care efforts makes her stand out from the crowd. She has gained her Master of Arts Clinical Psychology w/ Applied Behavioral Analytic Specialization from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL and Bachelor of Arts Psychology from Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA. She is a doctoral candidate of clinical psychology at Roosevelt University.