In the latest series of Mental Health Matters, a focus on special resources offered at UNLV with hopes their conversation on post-traumatic healing spreads beyond the campus.

News 3 went to the campus of UNLV to learn more about how to support students and the greater community.

This week, there will be a community conversation about mental health and meeting people where they are. News 3 went to the campus of UNLV to learn more about how to support students and the greater community.

Two years after starting gender-affirming hormone treatments, transgender and nonbinary youth experienced a sustained reduction in depression and anxiety and achieved a significantly improved alignment between their gender and physical characteristics, reports a large new study.

This spring, Olivia Rothe was putting the finishing touches on her undergraduate degree at Montana University. As the rapid spread of the coronavirus shuttered the country in a matter of weeks, she was planning her big move: She was going to law school, and she had picked UNLV’s Boyd School of Law.

In March, after nine days of being sick with a high fever and cough, and just generally feeling the worst I have ever felt, my temperature reached 102.5 degrees and I found myself fighting just to get air into my lungs.

Two weeks in, I suddenly felt like my life was over. Maybe not over, but definitely ruined. I hadn’t lost my job. No one close to me was sick. And although my future was and remains uncertain, there is no immediate, visible jeopardy.