Tabitha Mueller is a healthcare and government reporter at The Nevada Independent. Mueller spent a year teaching English in Japan before pursuing a journalism career. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, where she majored in English and geography with a Japanese minor. In 2023, the Nevada Press Association named her its “Journalist of Merit.”
Hoping to comply with federal law, the state committed more than $200 million to overhaul a children’s behavioral health system that ranked last in the nation.
Nevada has nowhere to go but up on youth mental health services. A lack of sustainable funding has prevented a more unified network of care.
As of 2023, nearly 86.9 percent of the state’s population lives in a federally designated mental health professional shortage area.
Since 2010, young people aged 15-24 have the highest rate of suicide attempts of any other age group in the Silver State.
