Bob Price Recreation Center — Reported Leaders of Future Teen Program
A North Las Vegas youth center that has given hundreds of teenagers a safe place to land after school is running out of time. Ty’s Place, located near Commerce Street and Centennial Parkway, says it needs roughly $15,000 to $20,000 immediately just to keep operating, and the clock is ticking toward Saturday.
For nearly seven years, the center has served as a sanctuary for Las Vegas youth, according to 8 News Now, offering a secure after-school environment along with homework help, mental-health support and mentorship. Kasina Douglass-Boone, who also works for the Clark County School District, confirmed the closure to the station and said the organization’s deadline for a miracle is October 31. The nonprofit behind the center, T.U.L.I.P.S., says it needs the funds to keep running through January 2027 while it searches for a longer-term fix.
Hundreds of Students Served Over Nearly Seven Years
The scale of what’s at stake is laid out plainly by the people who run the place. “We’ve impacted about 600 students in the last seven years,” Douglass-Boone told the outlet, a tally that spans homework sessions, mentorship check-ins and the kind of after-school supervision that working families often can’t arrange on their own…