Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Emergency Assistance, Homeless & Housing, Homeless Centers, Homeless Shelters, Human Services

Mission: The organization provides wraparound services to meet homeless youths' immediate, emergency needs and help them transition to long-term self- sufficiency. The organization's support comes primarily from government grants and corporate donations. Nevada partnership for homeless youth receives donations primarily from donors in the southern nevada region and provides services to those residing in the southern nevada region.

Programs: Nevada's only full-time drop-in center for homeless youth, the nphy drop-in center provides immediate needs items and respite from the streets to homeless youth, while building the trust and skills necessary for clients to transition to longer-term care and/or self-sufficiency. Nphy's drop-in center is the hub of all of our programs, connecting youth to further services while providing them with survival, educational, employment, therapeutic, recreational, and other resources at our comprehensive, centrally-located facility.

nphy's independent living program is a transitional living program for unaccompanied homeless youth. The objective of the program is to not only move youth out of homelessness by providing clients with housing, transportation, food, and clothing, but also to help each youth construct a road-map that will lead to long-term independence and success. Each program participant is required to enroll in school or work full-time, make daily contact with their case manager, and attend weekly counseling sessions and life skills classes. The youth in this program live in confidentially- located, scattered-site condos owned by nphy. Nphy coordinates each youth's exit from the housing program and offers six months of aftercare services, so that all clients successfully transition to self-sufficiency.

nphy conducts aggressive and multi-pronged outreach to prevent youth homelessness, provide life-sustaining supplies and information to youth currently living on the streets, educate the community-at-large about teen homelessness, and advocate on behalf of homeless youth at the local and state levels. Nphy's street outreach team goes directly to the streets to provide street youth with food, hygiene supplies, information, and build trust.

the safe place program and mobile crisis intervention program provides round-the-clock mobile crisis intervention services to any youth in crisis and an entry point to nphy's full continuum of care at virtually every street corner in clark county. Nphy partners with terrible herbst convenience stores, rtc buses, and city of las vegas fire stations to provide safe spaces for youth to ask for and receive help; within thirty minutes of a safe place call, an nphy crisis responder arrives to the site, conducts an assessment, and transports the youth in need to an appropriate location to receive services. Nphy's emergency shelter provides homeless youth with much-needed temporary shelter and emergency services while helping them transition to stable housing. Nphy's operation go home program reunifies unaccompanied homeless youth with supportive family members throughout north america, when possible.