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Eliminating Homelessness
Among Nevada’s Youth

Homelessness among youth is a growing crisis in the Las Vegas Valley. For over 20 years, the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) has provided Southern Nevada’s homeless youth with help, hope, and the support needed to rebuild their lives.

NPHY Housing Expansion Campaign

Give Homeless Youth
a Place to Sleep.
It’s More Than Just a Bed.

Learn more about the NPHY Housing Expansion Campaign

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Are you a young person, ages 12 – 20, with nowhere to sleep tonight?  Are you running away or afraid you’re going to get kicked out? Are you in an unstable housing situation or couchsurfing with friends? Are you in need of a place to stay, food, clothing, hygiene supplies, or someone to talk to? Do you feel unsafe?

NPHY is here to help! Call our crisis hotline 24-hours-a-day at 1-866-U-ARE-SAFE (1-866-827-3723) to get connected to immediate help.

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Call our Crisis Hotline at 1-866-U-ARE-SAFE

If you need a safe place to go right now, you can also walk into any Terrible Herbst convenience store, City of Las Vegas Fire Station, Las Vegas-Clark County Library, Henderson Library, or get onto any Regional Transportation Commission bus and ask for a safe place and you will receive immediate help.

If it’s between 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, you can also walk in to our Drop-In Center, located at 4981 Shirley Street, Las Vegas, NV 89119 (near the intersection of Tropicana Ave. and Maryland Parkway, across Tropicana from the Thomas & Mack Center) to speak to a case manager and get access to food, clothing, hygiene supplies, and bus passes, assistance with identification documents, help with school and work, and connections to a safe place to stay.

What We Do

NPHY is the most comprehensive service provider for the thousands of young people experiencing homelessness in our community, providing access to life-changing services for homeless youth 24 hours a day at virtually every street corner in Southern Nevada. NPHY’s wraparound programs stabilize young people’s lives, meeting their immediate needs and providing a safe, supportive environment and a path to self-sufficiency. NPHY’s individualized, holistic services empower young people to not only achieve long-term independence, but to craft the futures they want for themselves.

Strengthening and complementing our high-quality direct services for homeless youth, NPHY is dedicated to advocating for the Vegas Valley’s homeless youth population and serves as a leader in systems-level efforts to eliminate homelessness among Nevada’s youth.

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Volunteer With Us

We can’t do this without you. NPHY offers a variety of volunteer opportunities for both individuals and groups to make a positive impact in the lives of young people experiencing homelessness.

Individuals can volunteer at NPHY by filing, cleaning, and re-stocking our food, hygiene and clothing pantries, sharing your skills and talents with the youth we serve, mentoring homeless and at-risk young people and/or participating in special projects. If you are interested in volunteering with NPHY as an individual, you must attend a mandatory orientation session. NPHY’s volunteer orientations take place virtually on a monthly basis. To RSVP for an upcoming orientation, or for more information, please email volunteer@nphy.org.

Groups can volunteer at NPHY by cooking meals for our youth at our Drop-In Center, providing survival supplies to youth on the streets at our weekly signature outreach event, building hygiene kits or sack lunches, and/or participating in a variety of special projects and engagement opportunities. If you’d like to get a group together to do a volunteer project for NPHY, please email volunteer@nphy.org. NPHY welcomes corporate, civic, church, and other groups for all kinds of special volunteer projects, at your location or ours. We look forward to seeing you!

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Join Our Team

Join our talented, diverse team dedicated to combatting youth homelessness in Southern Nevada. NPHY is always seeking qualified applicants with a passion for providing empowering, holistic services to young people. NPHY offers paid personal leave, medical, vision, and dental coverage, retirement benefits, and a positive, family-style work environment. NPHY is an equal opportunity employer and encourages diverse candidates to apply. For more information, or to apply, e-mail hr@nphy.org.

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Give to NPHY

Your support makes it possible for us to provide critical, life-saving services round-the-clock to Southern Nevada’s homeless youth. To make a tax-deductible donation to NPHY, click below.

NPHY is also always in need of in-kind donations of supplies, such as gift cards to restaurants and grocery stores, new or gently-used clothing, hygiene supplies, and frozen, snack, and non-perishable foods. In-kind donations can be dropped off Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at our Drop-In Center at 4981 Shirley Street, Las Vegas, NV 89119.

Keep in Touch

Questions? Ideas? Suggestions? Let us know! Submit the form below or call us at 702-383-1332.

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Nicholas Barr, Ph.DAssistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Social Work

Dr. Barr is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Social Work. He received his BA in comparative religion from Columbia University, where he studied Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. As a Princeton in Asia fellow, he worked in education and development in Laos before earning his MSW with a concentration in adult mental health at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then worked as a clinical social worker for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health before completing his PhD at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. Dr. Barr’s research focuses on improving understanding of risk and protective factors for populations with an elevated likelihood of traumatic experiences, like homeless young adults and military service members.

Yorri Berry-HarrisModerator

Yorri Berry-Harris presently serves as the Director of Partnerships at the National Network for Youth where she oversees the National Youth Advisory Council (NYAC) to educate policymakers, service providers and community officials about youth and young adult homelessness in America and advocate for solutions. Nominated in 2019 by Governor Larry Hogan to serve on the Children’s Justice Act Committee, she is a passionate youth advocate committed to elevating the voices of young people across the globe. She has over a decade of combined youth development, project management, program design, and organizational oversight experience in both the private and public sectors.