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Intersections: the 2017 Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit

Many people in Southern Nevada don’t know about youth homelessness. Many members of our community also don’t realize the both broad and deep impacts that youth homelessness has on our community’s safety and well-being and on many other issues they care about. Additionally, many organizations throughout our community want to collaborate with one another on youth homelessness and related issues, and do collaborate, but oftentimes in limited ways or inside their own systems.

To accelerate community awareness around youth homelessness and bring diverse participants together around this urgent issue, the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) and Sands Cares, the corporate giving program of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., worked together to present Intersections: the 2017 Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit on November 2, 2017 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV. With support from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Greenspun College of Urban Affairs and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the 2017 Summit was the first of its kind in the region to bring community leaders together across sectors to tackle this pressing, complex issue head-on.

The 2017 Summit marked the beginning of a year-long planning process to convene service providers, civic leaders, government officials, and members of the business community to build the Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth Homelessness, an integrated, community-wide response to youth homelessness in the Las Vegas Valley. Once drafted, the plan will be unveiled at the second annual Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit in November 2018

 

Our Summit Partners

Highlights

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A welcome by Ron Reese, Senior Vice President of Global Communications and Corporate Affairs, Las Vegas Sands Corp.
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An overview of the regional landscape by local expert, Arash Ghafoori, Executive Director of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY), and the official kick-off of the Movement to End Youth Homelessness in Southern Nevada
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The release of “The State of Youth Homelessness in Southern Nevada,” a regional assessment of youth homelessness by an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Greenspun College of Urban Affairs.  Download the white paper PDF
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A review of the national policy landscape by Darla Bardine, J.D., Executive Director of the National Network for Youth (NN4Y), the United States’ largest public education and policy advocacy organization devoted to homeless youth
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A moving personal account of youth homelessness by NPHY alumnus, Giuseppe Pizano
A private screening of the documentary film Lost In America, which follows director Rotimi Rainwater’s journey to shine a light on youth homelessness in America, and a Q&A with the director
Interactive focus group sessions exploring the intersections between youth homelessness and other key community issue areas, including human trafficking, education, immigration and LGBTQ issues

Support Letters

Nevada’s Governor Brian Sandoval
United States Senators Catherine Cortez Masto
Dean Heller
Mayor of the City of Las Vegas Carolyn Goodman
Chair of the Clark County Commission, Steve Sisolak

Nevada’s Governor
Brian Sandoval

United States Senator
Catherine Cortez Masto

United States Senator
Dean Heller
Mayor of the City of Las Vegas Carolyn Goodman

Chair of the Clark County Commission, Steve Sisolak

Proclamations

Clark County
City of Las Vegas
Clark County

City of Las Vegas