This Plan is the result of a collaborative community effort by individuals and organizations, led by the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY); Las Vegas Sands; Clark County Social Service, the SNH CoC collaborative applicant; the SNH CoC Planning Working Group, represented by the City of Las Vegas; the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Greenspun College of Urban Affairs; and Young Adults in Charge (YAC), Southern Nevada’s Youth Action Board.

In November 2017, our community came together for the first annual Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit, presented by NPHY and Las Vegas Sands. This community-wide event served as a kickoff to the Movement to End Youth Homelessness in Southern Nevada (the Movement), an initiative to build a focused and sustained effort to end youth homelessness in the region. The Movement was tasked with producing the first-ever Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth Homelessness.

The Movement’s decision-making structure was based on four core teams working in coordination. Young Adults in Charge was established to ensure that voices of youth led the drafting of the Plan from the very beginning. This group began by meeting monthly, and then elected to meet weekly as its membership grew. YAC representatives also participated in meetings of the Joint Decision-Making Team (JDMT), which was comprised of Movement leaders, including Plan funders, and was tasked with reviewing all Plan components and making final determinations about what content to include. The Planning Team, made up of key community stakeholders and youth-serving providers, acted as the driver of the Plan throughout much of the process, synthesizing and packaging all information and recommendations for JDMT to consider. Finally, an expanded version of the SNH CoC Youth Working Group (YWG+) was made up of members of the SNH CoC’s existing Youth Working Group and newly invited subject matter experts. This group provided community input throughout the process, along with others who were brought in to address specific topics. To keep up with progress on the Plan, visit the Movement at www.nphy.org/themovement.