Help Of Southern Nevada

Help Of Southern Nevada, doing business as Help Center, is a Las Vegas-based nonprofit tax-exempt organization that operates as a federal grant recipient delivering permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, case management, and youth services to homeless populations and vulnerable individuals across the Las Vegas region. The organization competes as a direct recipient of federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services, with 80% of recent awards as prime recipient and 20% as sub-recipient under state and local pass-through grantees.

Help Center's customer concentration sits almost entirely with HUD. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds 69 of the organization's 82 tracked awards, accounting for the vast majority of its federal footprint. The Department of Energy accounts for 5 awards, and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families funds 3 awards. This 94% concentration in HUD represents the organization's core funding model.

The organization's capability portfolio centers on three primary federal grant programs. The Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) funds permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing for persons with disabilities, transitional housing, supportive services for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) facility operations, and rental assistance. Representative COC awards include $1.777 million (August 2026, performance through July 2027), $908,580 (June 2026, performance through May 2027), and multiple six-figure awards placed in October 2025 ranging from $211,707 to $644,425. The Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (CFDA 14.276) funds coordinated community responses to youth homelessness, including permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, rental assistance, supportive services, and HMIS operation for unaccompanied youth and pregnant or parenting youth ages 24 and younger. Help Center received three YHDP awards in July 2026 totaling $1.914 million combined (performance through June 2028), plus a $395,795 award on July 1, 2026. The Transitional Living for Homeless Youth program (CFDA 93.550) from the Department of Health and Human Services funds the Brighter Beginnings Maternity Group Home, a $700,000 three-year award (September 2025 through September 2028) providing shelter, parenting skills training, child development education, and supportive services for pregnant and parenting youth ages 16 to under 22 and their dependent children.

In its sub-recipient capacity, Help Center receives pass-through funding from Clark County, Nevada and the Nevada Department of Business and Industry for permanent supportive housing services, supportive services for medically fragile clients experiencing homelessness, weatherization assistance to low-income households, and rental assistance. Representative sub-awards include funding from Clark County for permanent supportive housing and case management to chronically homeless individuals (July 2023, July 2024, July 2025), and weatherization assistance sub-awards from Nevada Department of Business and Industry serving 35 to 192 low-income households in Las Vegas, Henderson, and Southern Rural Clark County across multiple funding cycles.

Activity has grown modestly — six awards in 2022 to thirteen in 2025 — with eight awards in 2026 year to date. Seven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating annual recompete cycles aligned with HUD Continuum of Care and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program funding rounds. Combined dollars obligated across all tracked awards total $69.9 million. Help Center's specific service portfolio includes the Shannon West Homeless Youth Center, Operation Home! Rapid Rehousing Program, and the Brighter Beginnings program serving pregnant and parenting youth, and the organization serves homeless individuals and families, unaccompanied youth, persons fleeing domestic violence, and individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance-use disorders.