LAS VEGAS, Sept. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nevada
Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) and Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:
LVS) today announced the fifth annual Southern Nevada Youth
Homelessness Summit will take place on November 4 at the UNLV Greenspun Hall Auditorium
with a simultaneous live webcast for virtual attendance.
Summit 2021, also sponsored by the UNLV Greenspun College of
Urban Affairs and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, will bring together
community sector leaders and youth with lived experience of
homelessness in a day-long forum designed to harness new
understandings and approaches emerging during the global pandemic
and through racial justice developments to refine and adapt the
strategies outlined in the Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth
Homelessness.
"Through the tremendous challenges our community has faced
during the past year and a half, we've found unexpected
opportunities to re-think how to better serve vulnerable youth,"
said Arash Ghafoori, CEO, NPHY. "As
service providers and community leaders become more creative in
tackling new problems, innovative solutions are coming to the
forefront. We have a huge opportunity to evolve the Movement to End
Youth Homelessness to better serve vulnerable youth, and Summit
2021 will begin that process."
Summit 2021 plans include:
- A featured panel discussion to identify new resources and
promising practices for solving the youth homelessness crisis,
including Nevada Assemblyman Howard
Watts; Clark County
Commissioner Justin Jones;
Chris James, state
coordinator for education services for youth experiencing
homelessness at the Nevada Department of Education; Tim Burch, Clark
County Administrator of Human Services; Christina Vela, Chief Executive Director,
St. Jude's Ranch for Children; and Theresa Butler, outreach coordinator for
Young Adults in Charge (YAC). Robert
Ulmer, Ph.D., dean of the University Nevada Las Vegas
Greenspun College of Urban Affairs will moderate.
- An update on the Movement to End Youth Homelessness from
NPHY
- An educational and thought-provoking performance by young
leaders with lived experience of homelessness
- An interactive community input session to outline new
priorities for the Movement
The Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit was established in
2017 to address the region's severe youth homelessness crisis. For
years, Las Vegas/Clark County has ranked in the top major
metropolitan areas with the largest numbers of unaccompanied
homeless children and youth, according to the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. Nevada also has had one of the highest rates
of unsheltered homeless children and youth living alone on the
streets, with the overwhelming majority of these youth located in
Southern Nevada.
In 2018, the community came together at the second annual Summit
to introduce the first-ever Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth
Homelessness, outlining solutions for sustainable change. While the
Plan achieved numerous successes in its initial years, recent
events have both necessitated adjustments and revealed new
opportunities to address the current environment and risk factors
for youth homelessness.
"Truly solving this crisis and creating a safety net for
vulnerable youth will take every organization – public and private
– as well as all citizens working together to ensure no young
person has to face a lack of shelter or the resources they need to
grow and flourish," said Ron Reese,
senior vice president of global communications and corporate
affairs at Sands. "We challenge the community to get involved in
one of our region's most critical issues."
Summit 2021 will follow safety protocols for in-person
attendance at UNLV, including requiring
attendees to wear face coverings, and a livestream will provide a
virtual option for attendance. To register for the in-person and
virtual options or for more information, attendees can visit
nphy.org/summit21.
About Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY)
For the past 20 years, NPHY has been the most comprehensive service
provider for the thousands of homeless youth in Southern Nevada, serving hundreds of youth
through our core programs and touching the lives of thousands more
through outreach each year. NPHY's programs stabilize homeless
teens' lives, meeting their immediate needs and providing a safe,
supportive environment and a path to self-sufficiency. Through
our work with homeless youth, NPHY creates productive, healthy
adults who contribute to society. Strengthening and complementing
our high-quality direct services for homeless youth, NPHY is
dedicated to advocating with and for the Vegas Valley's homeless
youth population and serves as a leader in systems-level efforts to
eliminate homelessness among Nevada's youth. For more information or to
support our life-changing work for homeless youth, please
visit www.nphy.org.
About Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS)
Las Vegas
Sands is the world's preeminent developer and operator of
world-class Integrated Resorts. We deliver unrivaled economic
benefits to the communities in which we operate.
Sands created the meetings, incentives, convention and
exhibition (MICE)-based Integrated Resort. Our industry-leading
Integrated Resorts provide substantial contributions to our host
communities including growth in leisure and business tourism,
sustained job creation and ongoing financial opportunities for
local small and medium-sized businesses.
Our properties include The Venetian Resort and Sands Expo in
Las Vegas, and the iconic
Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Through majority ownership
in Sands China Ltd., we have developed the largest portfolio
of properties on the Cotai Strip in Macao, including The Venetian Macao, The Plaza
and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, The Londoner Macao and The Parisian
Macao, as well as the Sands Macao
on the Macao Peninsula.
Sands is dedicated to being a good corporate citizen, anchored
by the core tenets of serving people, planet and communities. We
deliver a great working environment for our team members worldwide,
drive social impact through the Sands Cares community engagement
and charitable giving program and lead in environmental performance
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Contacts:
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Lanette
Rivera
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Kristin
Koca
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Nevada Partnership
for Homeless Youth
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Las Vegas
Sands
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summit@nphy.org
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Kristin.Koca@sands.com
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702-969-2196
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702-414-3218
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