The Movement: The Movement Inspires Nevada Solutions
Friday, November 14th
Historic Fifth Street School
401 S. Fourth Street
Las Vegas, NV
- Early bird registration through September 19, 2025: $100
- Conference Registration On or After September 20, 2025: $175
Join us for the 9th annual Summit as we explore this pivotal moment we are facing in Nevada and nationwide. While a lot of on-the-ground progress has been made in the last year across Nevada, young people, service providers, government agencies, and so many others are responding to shifting realities, exacerbated challenges, and looming uncertainties. We need Nevada to step up because the solution lies with us!
It’s time to take care of each other and take care of our youth. At the 2025 Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit, in partnership with young leaders, we will reflect on exciting progress from the past year, while working together on locally-driven solutions to uplift young people during these changing times. The future is in our hands – our community is the solution!
Featured at Summit 2025
Summit 2025 will feature:
Our Statewide Approach
In order to make systemic change, we knew we could no longer focus our work on Southern Nevada alone – we needed to go statewide to create real, lasting change! In 2023, we decided to take the Summit statewide and hosted the first-ever Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit, which was critical in laying the foundation for statewide solutions.
Why Statewide
- The scope of the youth homelessness crisis is statewide. Going statewide continues powering the Movement to End Youth Homelessness in the entire state of NEVADA.
- The Movement’s state-level policy work, such as passing Nevada state laws, affects and requires collaboration across the state – our policy work is more responsive to identified needs, more likely to come to fruition, and more successfully implemented when we align across the state.
- There are incredible organizations working throughout the state, and we must join forces to bring more ideas and solutions to the table – because the issue of youth homelessness is bigger than any one sector and bigger than any one region.
- As part of this growth, we are bringing new partners on board to create a statewide response to youth homelessness, which will culminate in the Movement’s Nevada Plan to End Youth Homelessness — slated to be launched in 2026.
2025 Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit Committee
To expand our work statewide, a steering committee is spearheading content planning and participant engagement for Summit 2025. Committee members:
Arash Ghafoori, NPHY
Melissa Jacobowitz, NPHY
Lanette Rivera, NPHY
Kessa Lee, Eddy House
Trevor Macaluso, Eddy House
Kim Moore, Shannon West Homeless Youth Center
Brenda Barnes, Clark County Social Service
Lisa Falcetti, Lisa Falcetti Communications (LFC)
Meg Pike, Clark County School District Title I HOPE
Catrina Grigsby-Thedford, Nevada Homeless Alliance
Christina Vela, St. Jude’s Ranch for Children
Michael Flores, University of Nevada, Reno
Nariya, NPHY Ambassador/Youth Leaders
Dr. Robert Ulmer, UNLV Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
Sponsorship Opportunities for the
2025 Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit
The Summit has brought together thousands of community members (Over 400 attendees anticipated for 2025) from a wide range of industries, including private businesses, healthcare, government, education, direct-service nonprofits, and more!
If you’d like to become a sponsor of Nevada’s premiere youth homelessness advocacy event, please email Lanette Rivera at summit@nphy.org.
Check out highlights from last year's Summit!
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Click Here For A Recap From Summit 2024