Program areas at Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
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 conducts aggressive and multi-pronged outreach to prevent Youth homelessness, identify Youth experiencing homelessness, provide life- sustaining supplies and information to Youth currently living on the streets, educate the community-at-large about Youth homelessness, and advocate with and for Homeless Youth at the local, state, and federal levels.
Nphy's housing program encompasses two offerings: the independent living program (ilp) and transitional and rapid re-housing program (th-rrh). Youth in the housing program either live in nphy-owned multi-site condos or receive rental assistance to live in apartments throughout clark county. In addition to providing Youth with stable housing and meeting their basic needs, this program offers wraparound services to empower young people experiencing homelessness to succeed in school, grow their income, build self-sufficiency skills, and achieve long-lasting housing stability.
The safe place 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, las vegas-clark county and henderson libraries, and city of las vegas fire stations to provide safe spaces for Youth to ask for and receive help; shortly after 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 program 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.