A woman looks over a makeshift memorial site on Las Vegas Boulevard on Oct. 3. Nevada ranks 51st among all states and the District of Columbia in mental health resources and access to treatment, according to the most recent annual report from Mental Health America, a community-based nonprofit. Ninety percent of severely depressed youths in the state received no treatment or inadequate treatment last year, it noted. Those numbers are partly a reflection of the severe cuts in mental health spending during the most recent recession, when Nevada saw its general mental health budget plummet by about $60 million over four years. It remains below the national average in per capita expenditures for mental health services, and in February, Gov.

Source: Washington Post October 03, 2017 20:37 UTC