Nevada organizations partner to help homeless youth beat the heat

Nevada organizations partner to help homeless youth beat the heat

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- As temperatures begin to heat up in Nevada, organizations in the valley are partnering together to help a vulnerable part of the population. On Saturday, volunteers with the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth and Commercial Alliance Las Vegas met at the NPHY’s drop-in center on Shirley Street to pack summer readiness kits. “They have sunscreen in them. They have umbrellas, evaporative towels,” Arash Ghafoori, CEO of the Ne…

With more homeless youth on streets, San Diego opens larger shelter to serve them

A San Diego-area shelter that opened in 2022. (File photo courtesy of MayorTodd Gloria’s office) Local leaders Friday announced that a shelter program serving young adults in downtown San Diego has doubled its capacity. The city-funded Safe Shelter for Transition-Age Youth, or Safe STAY, program has served 21 people ages 18-24 across two interim sites. The new site, though, can serve 43 transition-age youth while replacing the interim sites. In …

City of San Diego opens new homeless shelter for young adults

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The city of San Diego's shelter for homeless young adults is set to double its capacity after moving into a new site, an underutilized office space in downtown. The new facility falls under the umbrella of the city's Safe STAY program for unhoused, transition-aged adults — or those between the ages of 18 and 24 — and will replace the existing 21 beds currently available across two interim sites that became available last…

City opens new homeless shelter for young adults, doubling current capacity

Local leaders Friday announced a shelter program serving unhoused young adults has a new site in downtown San Diego doubling its capacity.