System-Level Transformation
Since 2017, the Movement has made systems-level planning a top priority, driving impactful changes across key areas such as breaking down barriers, strengthening vital resources, and increasing access to support. By redesigning community processes, fostering collaboration across sectors, and addressing the many interconnected systems that impact youth experiencing homelessness, we are advancing our mission to end youth homelessness. Here’s how we’re making a difference:
System-Level Planning
The Movement has been at the forefront of community planning processes since 2018. We’ve brought together young leaders with lived experience of homelessness, hundreds of Nevada-based stakeholders across sectors, and national experts to create our community’s roadmaps to end youth homelessness. Additionally, we’ve led and participated in processes to build needs assessments that help us better understand the landscape of youth homelessness in communities across our state.
The Movement’s plans and assessments include:
Youth Experiencing Homelessness Statewide Study (June 2025): a two-year, state-funded study that serves as the Movement’s statewide needs assessment
Southern Nevada Assessment of Youth Needs (November 2022): a community-based assessment of the landscape of youth homelessness in Clark County
Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth Homelessness (October 2018): Clark County’s north star on how to end youth homelessness, created by the Movement and approved as the Southern Nevada Homelessness Continuum of Care and City of Las Vegas’ official plans to address youth homelessness
Research
The Movement also collaborates with higher education institutions, research centers, and national organizations to better understand the causes and consequences of youth homelessness.
Our research briefs and academic articles include the following:
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Systems Leadership
The Movement and NPHY also lead efforts to transform and reenvision systems that affect young people experiencing homelessness to ensure they receive high-quality, tailored support. Current examples include:
Youth Homelessness System Improvement Grant (YHSI)
In 2024, due to the Movement’s work, NPHY was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to lead systems change projects across Nevada, bringing additional federal resources to our state. As a first step, the grant is facilitating the creation and strengthening of regional and statewide Youth Action Boards to ensure youth with lived experiences of homelessness can provide leadership on solutions and systemic change. The YHSI grant also will help fund the development of Nevada’s first standalone plan to end youth homelessness. NPHY and the Movement are leading this statewide initiative with partners across all regions of Nevada.
Southern Nevada Youth Coordinated Entry System
The Movement is working on designing and implementing several strategies to increase young people’s access to resources. One of the Movement’s current priorities in this area is supporting the youth homelessness component of Southern Nevada’s coordinated entry system, a federally-mandated process that connects people in need with housing resources. In the current iteration of the system, young people have experienced barriers to accessing housing, including long wait times and inaccessible requirements. NPHY and the Movement are working with young leaders, Clark County, and social service agencies to improve and streamline this process to ensure young people are connected with life-saving housing quickly, efficiently, and fairly.