Attendees of Reggie’s Sleepout on Sept. 30 will get to spend a night on the field at Drake Stadium in Des Moines and join the fight to end youth homelessness. A $25 registration fee will include a T-shirt, pizza, snacks, entertainment and educational programming. Participants will be able to raise funds as individuals or as teams to help Youth and Shelter Services reach its goal of $200,000 to save 100 lives this year. Using cardboard, duct tape and their imagination, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the Nationwide Boxed-In Contest and design their own enclosure for the night. Awards will be given for creativity and overall design. Reggie’s Sleepout was created in 2005 in memory of Reggie Kelsey. He was a young man who aged out of the foster care system in 2001, and within three and a half months, was found dead in the Des Moines River. Kelsey had an endearing personality but suffered from hallucinations and depression. After being kicked out of his latest foster care placement, Kelsey bounced from one shelter to another and worried about how he would survive on his own. Occasionally he camped outside while working with Iowa Homeless Youth Centers, a YSS organization in Des Moines.