Tabitha Mueller

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.”

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Mental Health & Trauma

Meeting Nevadans’ mental health needs challenged by limited resources, isolated efforts

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.

Mental Health

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Mental Health & Trauma

Distance, workforce shortages complicate mental health access in rural Nevada communities

As of 2023, nearly 86.9 percent of the state’s population lives in a federally designated mental health professional shortage area.

Mental Health

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Mental Health & Trauma

As Nevada grapples with high suicide rates, Elko mom finds tragedy ‘does not discriminate’

Since 2010, young people aged 15-24 have the highest rate of suicide attempts of any other age group in the Silver State.

Mental Health

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Tabitha Mueller

Articles

Meeting Nevadans’ mental health needs challenged by limited resources, isolated efforts

Distance, workforce shortages complicate mental health access in rural Nevada communities

As Nevada grapples with high suicide rates, Elko mom finds tragedy ‘does not discriminate’