Summit 2020: The Movement Fights Back

2020 was a challenging year for all of us. For young people experiencing homelessness, COVID-19 exacerbated already difficult circumstances and created new hardships around housing, employment, education, healthcare and so much more. The events of 2020 also brought into sharp focus how systemic racism and oppression shape the youth homelessness crisis in our region and around the country.

These events fueled the fourth annual Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit, a virtual conference series presented by Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth and Sands Cares, and drove our work as we continued the Movement to End Youth Homelessness in Southern Nevada. Summit 2020 addressed the most pressing issues affecting young people experiencing homelessness through virtual panels on COVID-19 and systemic racism.

Although we were unable to meet in-person, the Movement and our progress toward achieving the goals outlined in the Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth Homelessness did not stop. Our fight only became more urgent during this unprecedented time, and the Movement and Summit 2020 brought our community together once again for inspiration and to build solutions in the fight to end youth homelessness.

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