Living Grace Homes will operate the shelter at its Safe and Sound campus off Boulder Highway, according to Executive Director Gwen Harvey. The organization plans a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday at 3 p.m., and the campus could begin accepting clients before Thanksgiving if the city approves a conditional use permit expected to go before officials Thursday.

The need is acute, Harvey said. Statewide, 40 beds are reserved for homeless pregnant women under age 24, and none are set aside for those who are older, according to advocates. Living Grace already maintains a waitlist for the new campus.

“Being a pregnant woman, if you don’t have any other children, there’s five tiers of who gets a bed first. Well, you’re a single woman at that point,” Harvey said.

Women must show a positive pregnancy test to receive support from Living Grace, which offers legal, medical, education and career assistance. Residents can stay in the short-term beds for up to 90 days.

Harvey said the organization is also seeking to build 24 additional beds next door. Combined with the initial 14, that would give Living Grace roughly 50 beds — more than the state currently dedicates to the population, she said.

“With all of this, we will have ourselves approximately 50 beds,” Harvey said. “That’s more than the state currently has, and that’s just ours.”

The shelter is opening as Southern Nevada continues to grapple with housing instability and a strained safety net for pregnant people. Living Grace is asking for donations of household items to help furnish the campus. More information is available through the organization’s website.

The conditional use permit vote Thursday will determine whether the campus can begin operations on its hoped-for timeline. If approved, the shelter would become one of the few dedicated emergency options in the region for pregnant women without housing, particularly those over 24 who fall outside the state’s existing bed reservations.