WHAT WE DO

Since 2001, NPHY’s best practice programs have helped thousands of homeless youth graduate from high school, enroll in college, embark on careers, find their passions, build supportive social networks, obtain safe and stable housing, and realize brighter futures.

How Do We Do This?

Our Three Strategic Priorities & Six Areas of Impact

1

Meeting Urgent Needs

Emergency Intervention and Assistance

2

Building Pathways to
Independence

2. Housing Solutions

3. Education and Employment Assistance

4. Physical, Emotional, and Social Well-Being

3

Leading the Movement
to End Youth
Homelessness

(Systems-Level Advocacy)

5. Youth Leadership Development

6. Systems-Level Advocacy

IMPACT #1

Emergency Intervention and Assistance

Our multi-pronged emergency intervention efforts meet young people where they are by addressing their immediate survival needs and building trusted relationships to get them off the streets for good.

Youth Outreach – NPHY’s youth outreach team connects with youth directly on the streets or in unstable housing situations, providing them with basic needs items, while building rapport to assist youth in obtaining life-saving services.
Safe Place – The first of its kind in Clark County, the NPHY Safe Place program offers mobile crisis intervention and an entry point to our comprehensive services around-the-clock at virtually every street corner in Southern Nevada.
Drop-In Center – The NPHY DIC offers youth facing housing insecurity a respite from the streets and basic needs resources, case management, connections to our other programs, and more.
Emergency Shelter – NPHY’s Emergency Shelters provide a safe place to sleep, food, hygiene supplies, and clothing.

IMPACT #2

Housing Solutions

NPHY works with each youth to determine if family reunification is a secure and viable option, either with the youth’s most recent caregiver or another safe, supportive relative. When not possible, we offer housing solutions that include transitional housing programs and rapid re-housing.

Operation Go Home – If family reunification is safe and possible, NPHY covers the costs of bus or plane fare for a youth to move in with a supportive adult relative anywhere in North America.
Independent Living Program – Through our ILP, youth live in one of our confidentially-located apartments while receiving intensive case management and wraparound support, helping them build a foundation for self-sufficiency and long-term success.
Rapid Re-Housing – NPHY’s Rapid Re-Housing program offers youth rental assistance to live in apartments throughout Clark County. Youth also benefit from supportive services that help them maintain permanent housing.

IMPACT #3

Education and Employment Assistance

Completing educational goals and obtaining stable employment is the primary way we ensure youth stay off the streets, achieving stability and their life goals.

Education Support – NPHY offers a range of educational support to ensure youth can participate and succeed in school, like clothing and school supplies, computers, tuition and textbook assistance, and tutoring.
Employment Support – We offer guidance with job searches, interviews, resume development, and more. 
Assistance to Get Around – e ability to travel to and from school, a workplace, our facilities, and other locations is essential for client success. NPHY offers bus passes and rides.
Basic and Life Skills Training – Our skills training includes classes on daily living, financial literacy, and more.

IMPACT #4

Health and Wellness Services

NPHY helps youth move beyond challenging circumstances to craft the futures they want by supporting and promoting their physical, social, and emotional well-being.

Case Management – All youth who enter our programs receive dedicated case management services to identify and build on their strengths and help them plan for the future and set goals.
Engage Me – The NPHY Engage Me program hosts a wide range of engagement activities to help young people find their passions, inspire creativity, and develop team-building skills and confidence.
Therapy Services – NPHY offers therapy with licensed clinicians to promote youths’ social and emotional well-being.
Healthcare Medical Services – We work with vital partners to provide young people experiencing homelessness with critical physical health medical services on-site at the NPHY Drop-In Center.

IMPACT #5

Youth Leadership Development

Investing in youth has a quantifiable and exponential impact on creating healthy communities. When we affect youth, we impact society.

NPHY’s multiple youth leadership development projects empower, educate, and inspire homeless youth to advocate for themselves and their peers, develop self-sufficiency skills, grow their self-esteem, and positively contribute to the local community.

NPHY Ambassadors – NPHY offers this innovative leadership program to assist youth in developing skills in public speaking, and community-building.
NPHY Youth Council – Occurring monthly, the NPHY Youth Council is a forum for young people enrolled in NPHY housing programs to provide feedback and shape activities.
Systems-Level advocacy  Leadership – NPHY facilitates a variety of opportunities for young people to participate in and lead systems improvement efforts.

IMPACT #6

Systems-Level Advocacy

Youth homelessness is at the crossroads of many issues our community cares about. NPHY works to address the impact of youth homelessness on  young people to find solutions for lasting change. Our efforts and accomplishments include:

Launching The Movement to End Youth Homelessness in Nevada, a focused, sustained, community-wide effort to attack youth homelessness from all angles.
Hosting the annual Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit since 2017 with Sands Cares, UNLV Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Leading the comprehensive community-wide process to create the first Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth Homelessness in 2018.
Leading statewide processes that made it possible for young people to obtain vital documents and critical medical services.
Creating The Movement Institute, a series of community trainings.

Christina’s Story

At the age of 9, Christina* lost her mother. At 17, she lost her father. With nowhere to turn, she lived in her family’s house alone, scraping together money from odd jobs to pay the mortgage and bills until she was unable to make ends meet. Couch-surfing soon turned into sleeping on the streets.

After two months sleeping under a bridge each night, Christina went to a Terrible Herbst gas station, NPHY’s Safe Place partner, for help. Within thirty minutes, an NPHY Crisis Responder arrived and took her to the NPHY Drop-In Center, where she received food, hygiene supplies and clothing. Christina then stayed in NPHY’s Emergency Shelter, before moving into NPHY’s comprehensive Independent Living Program.

Over the next several months, NPHY provided Christina with more than a roof over her head. She received educational and vocational assistance, weekly life skills classes, counseling and the daily support of her case manager, who helped her to apply to the Job Corps vocational training program. Christina was able to move to San Diego where she now works in her chosen field of underwater welding.