A city-county partnership plans to bring a $3.5 million project, dubbed the Historic Westside Leaders Park, to land near the southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Lake Mead boulevards.
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The innovative public-private partnership between Clark County and Health Plan of Nevada aims to get medically fragile homeless into shelter and stave off serious illness.
The program will provide “holistic” treatment and housing for people undergoing substance abuse treatment and will cover even the uninsured.
The Nevada Museum of Art, Las Vegas, may ultimately find an alternative site via ongoing talks with the city but organizers are also interested in the nearby Clark County government center campus.
While neighbors in a Spring Valley neighborhood were challenging the county’s approval of two centers within blocks of their homes, another one opened.
The partnership will focus on placing children who statistics indicate would otherwise have difficulty finding adoptive homes.
Clark County and the city of Las Vegas are accepting applications for both new shelters and grant money to serve the homeless.
Clark County officials plan to spend $12 million to combat chronic absenteeism and truancy in schools, hoping that increasing classroom attendance will reduce juvenile delinquency.
Shani Coleman, deputy director of government affairs, and Deacon Thomas Roberts, CEO of Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, will represent the city on the new panel.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a toddler who died in foster care alleges that Nevada and Clark County officials routinely endanger the children they’re charged with protecting.