Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad

Guests:
Robin Reedy, Executive Director National Alliance on Mental Illness, Nevada
Heidi Parker, Executive Director, Immunize Nevada


"Where there is the unknown, there will be anxiety. When that anxiety and depression start affecting your everyday life and how you pursue it, that is now a problem."

- Robin Reedy, Executive Director National Alliance on Mental Illness, Nevada says that children as young as 8 have made plans for their own suicide and Covid is exacerbating the problems kids have both with not attending school due to the lockdown or conversely, showing anxiety about attending school.