"More Than Breadcrumbs"
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The Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY), Southern Nevada's most comprehensive service provider for homeless youth, is partnering with Sin City Opera to bring awareness to the serious problem of youth homelessness in Southern Nevada.
Throughout Sin City Opera's May 2015 run of Hansel & Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, NPHY and Sin City Opera hope to create a platform to engage the Las Vegas Valley in discussions around this critical community issue, while building support for NPHY's transformative services for homeless youth.
Hansel and Gretel is a poignant vehicle for the discussion of youth homelessness: in the beloved fairy tale and in this English-language opera, Hansel and Gretel deal with a variety of issues homeless youth in our community face, such as being separated from their families and coming face-to-face with dangerous influences and circumstances precisely when they are feeling lost and most vulnerable.
As members of the Southern Nevada community, we are inviting you to participate in this dialogue and to get involved. You can help in the following ways:
1) Donate on this page to support NPHY's critical work for homeless youth. NPHY does not simply provide homeless youth with food, clothing, hygiene supplies, and other survival services, but with the holisitc tools, resources, and support that homeless youth need to become successful, self-sufficient young adults. In addition to meeting homeless youths' survival needs, NPHY provides youth with family reunification services, counseling, life skills classes, transitional housing, education and employment assistance, intensive case management, and more, to help homeless youth build toward sustainable futures. Your donation will support these services and ensure that Southern Nevada's homeless youth have "More than Breadcrumbs" on their journeys to long-term independence.
2) Attend a showing of Sin City Opera's Hansel and Gretel May 15th - 24th at the Winchester Cultural Center and bring gift cards for homeless youth. Each performance of the English-language opera will be an opportunity for education and dialogue around this important issue. In addition, audience members can bring restaurant, fast food and convenience store gift cards to be donated and be entered into a chance to win a prize at the show: these gift cards ensure that homeless youth can get a hot meal, regardless of their living situation or access to a kitchen. Sin City Opera will also be soliciting donations from sponsors and audience members for the new Music & Art Room at NPHY's newly expanded Drop-In Center.
Performances will occur on May 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd at 7:00 PM and 24th at 2:00 PM at the Winchester Cultural Center, located at 3130 McLeod Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89121. Tickets are $10 online and $15 the day of the performance and can be purchased at www.sincityopera.com.
On an average day last year, 2,368 unaccompanied homeless children and youth could be found wandering Southern Nevada's streets or living in homeless shelters. In the 2013 - 2014 school year, 9,284 homeless youth were enrolled in the Clark County School District, a frightening 34% increase over the prior year.
Every day a homeless youth spends on the streets increases their likelihood of engaging in substance abuse, developing serious mental and physical health problems, contracting sexuallytransmitted diseases, experiencing unwanted pregnancies, going to prison, getting involved in gangs, dropping out of high school, and becoming a homeless adult. Help us to get Southern Nevada's thousands of homeless youth off the streets today before they become tomorrow's homeless adults: your support turns individual lives around while saving significant future costs to our community.
Throughout Sin City Opera's May 2015 run of Hansel & Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, NPHY and Sin City Opera hope to create a platform to engage the Las Vegas Valley in discussions around this critical community issue, while building support for NPHY's transformative services for homeless youth.
Hansel and Gretel is a poignant vehicle for the discussion of youth homelessness: in the beloved fairy tale and in this English-language opera, Hansel and Gretel deal with a variety of issues homeless youth in our community face, such as being separated from their families and coming face-to-face with dangerous influences and circumstances precisely when they are feeling lost and most vulnerable.
As members of the Southern Nevada community, we are inviting you to participate in this dialogue and to get involved. You can help in the following ways:
1) Donate on this page to support NPHY's critical work for homeless youth. NPHY does not simply provide homeless youth with food, clothing, hygiene supplies, and other survival services, but with the holisitc tools, resources, and support that homeless youth need to become successful, self-sufficient young adults. In addition to meeting homeless youths' survival needs, NPHY provides youth with family reunification services, counseling, life skills classes, transitional housing, education and employment assistance, intensive case management, and more, to help homeless youth build toward sustainable futures. Your donation will support these services and ensure that Southern Nevada's homeless youth have "More than Breadcrumbs" on their journeys to long-term independence.
2) Attend a showing of Sin City Opera's Hansel and Gretel May 15th - 24th at the Winchester Cultural Center and bring gift cards for homeless youth. Each performance of the English-language opera will be an opportunity for education and dialogue around this important issue. In addition, audience members can bring restaurant, fast food and convenience store gift cards to be donated and be entered into a chance to win a prize at the show: these gift cards ensure that homeless youth can get a hot meal, regardless of their living situation or access to a kitchen. Sin City Opera will also be soliciting donations from sponsors and audience members for the new Music & Art Room at NPHY's newly expanded Drop-In Center.
Performances will occur on May 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd at 7:00 PM and 24th at 2:00 PM at the Winchester Cultural Center, located at 3130 McLeod Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89121. Tickets are $10 online and $15 the day of the performance and can be purchased at www.sincityopera.com.
On an average day last year, 2,368 unaccompanied homeless children and youth could be found wandering Southern Nevada's streets or living in homeless shelters. In the 2013 - 2014 school year, 9,284 homeless youth were enrolled in the Clark County School District, a frightening 34% increase over the prior year.
Every day a homeless youth spends on the streets increases their likelihood of engaging in substance abuse, developing serious mental and physical health problems, contracting sexuallytransmitted diseases, experiencing unwanted pregnancies, going to prison, getting involved in gangs, dropping out of high school, and becoming a homeless adult. Help us to get Southern Nevada's thousands of homeless youth off the streets today before they become tomorrow's homeless adults: your support turns individual lives around while saving significant future costs to our community.
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Nphy Staff
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Las Vegas, NV
Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
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