Crisis and Mental Health Resources
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JFCS – Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minnesota provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need. We provide senior services, career services, education and learning, community engagement, and counseling and mental health support.
Brick by Brick Foundation – Our mission is to empower individuals and families by providing recovery support, personal development opportunities, mentorship, and community resources that foster healing, growth, and long-term success.We strive to create safe and supportive environments where people can develop healthy relationships, strengthen their sense of purpose, and become active contributors within their communities. Through education, community engagement, and recovery-focused programming, we are committed to helping individuals build stable foundations for lasting change.
CARE Counseling – CARE Counseling’s mission is Building a Community to Strengthen the Community. This mission informs every decision, from training to internal and external community building. CARE focuses on supporting providers to ensure they can offer the best possible care to clients.
CARE Counseling is an outpatient mental health clinic, providing individual, couples, and family therapy, as well as psychological testing and medication management services. CARE Counseling’s clinical team provides individualized services using evidence-based treatment modalities to fully support clients as they work towards personal growth and mental wellness. CARE Counseling accepts all major MN insurances, offers same-week availability for services at ten locations as well as online.
FastTrackerMN.org – provides Minnesotans with real-time availability of mental health and substance use disorder services. Our free search tool empowers individuals, families, and professionals to connect with the care they need. We believe that everyone should have free access to clear and timely information. Our mission is to remove roadblocks, increase access to services, and build stronger communities across Minnesota.
Guerilla Haiku Movement – a Public Art Experience that has traveled to over 70 cities across the country since April of 2011, joining communities in spontaneous interaction and dialogue through the creative, succinct and powerful use of haiku. Participants, not intimidated by haiku, 5-7-5 syllable structure, head out into their city to cover their neighborhoods with sidewalk-chalked poetry inspired by what they see and experience, and invite passers-by to engage with their own creative process. Conversations happen, memories are made, community is created. All events are documented with photos that become a pictorial-journey of each city through the words of its residents and visitors. In response to recent growth and momentum, Guerilla Haiku is now offering programs tailored towards community art organizations and educational institutions, for internal team-building, and to increase visibility and deepen conversations with their greater communities.
Hennepin County Library – to inspire, facilitate, and celebrate lifelong learning.
Jewish Community Chaplain of the Twin Cities, St Paul Jewish Federation – We strengthen Jewish life in St. Paul, Israel, and around the world‚ rooted in community, guided by values, and powered by you.
Living Mussar – Our mission is to cultivate personal growth, deepen community connection, and inspire meaningful transformation through the inclusive study and practice of Mussar, a Jewish tradition of ethical and spiritual development. Services include: small group learning, workshops, facilitator training and mentorship, retreats and community events.
Mental Health Connect – We work to end mental health stigma by partnering with faith communities on education, support, and access to care. We believe mental health is health and that everyone deserves care and dignity. We value inclusion, collaboration, and hope as we accompany people navigating services.
Mental Health Minnesota– Non-profit dedicated to supporting mental health across the state. As an affiliate of Mental Health America, we focus on early intervention and peer-led care. Every core service we offer is free, confidential, and guided by people with lived experience.
Free & Confidential Support Services we offer:
Mental Health Systems – MHS is an intensive outpatient mental health services, specializing in DBT and trauma for age 12 and up. We offer accepting and non-judgmental services in a group setting providing coping skills for every life stressors.
MKG Parent Coach – Empowers parents, caregivers, grandparents, and professionals with practical, relationship-centered tools to strengthen family connections and support children’s emotional well-being. Through one-on-one and group parent coaching, workshops, presentations, and the PAUSE Process, Merri Guggisberg helps adults improve communication, navigate challenges with confidence, and create loving home environments where children and families can thrive
movemindfully – A training and consulting organization that translates neuroscience into simple, practical, trauma-responsive mind-body coping skills for everyday life. Since 2009, movemindfully has partnered with organizations in educational, therapeutic, and community settings to support youth, adults, families, and the professionals who serve them.
Through experiential training, consultation, and practical resources, we help integrate portable mind-body strategies that support regulation, resilience, and connection.
myHealth for Teens & Young Adults – A non-profit clinic in downtown Hopkins that provides low cost or free primary care, mental health counseling, and reproductive healthcare to people ages 12-29. In addition to medical services, myHealth has a robust education program that serves over twenty school districts, including Hopkins Public Schools, as well as parents, caregivers, and professionals working with youth. myHealth’s mission is to improve the health of our community by providing health services and information that supports all teens and young adults in making responsible and well-informed decisions. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, welcoming, and safe space for young people to get the care and education they need to take care of their health and make the decisions that are best for them.
NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness) – a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults with mental illnesses and their families. For over 40 years, NAMI Minnesota has worked to promote the development of community mental health programs and services, change public attitudes about mental illnesses, improve access to services and increase opportunities for recovery.
Through education, support, and advocacy, NAMI Minnesota champions justice, dignity, and respect for all individuals and families affected by mental illnesses. To serve that mission, NAMI Minnesota works with individuals with mental illness, their families, professionals and the community at large by providing education, support and advocacy.
Newport Healthcare – Our mission is to provide results-driven, clinically integrated behavioral healthcare to individuals and families, to create hope, sustainable healing, and resiliency. We offer specialized treatment for children ages 7-11, adolescents ages 12-18, and young adults ages 18-35 who struggle with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. We provide comprehensive, evidence-based care while actively involving families to enhance communication and connection. Whether you are the parent of a child who is struggling, a young adult seeking care, or a professional who would like to refer a young person for treatment, you can trust Newport to deliver high-quality care, delivered by a compassionate team of medical and clinical experts.
Overeaters Anonymous – A worldwide community of people recovering from compulsive eating and other difficulties related to food and eating behaviors. In OA, members support one another so that no one has to face these struggles alone. There are no dues or fees; the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively. We have approx. 6,000 in-person, online, and phone meetings worldwide, spanning 75 countries and 40 languages. Based on Alcoholics Anonymous, OA is a 12-Step program that is spiritual but not religious. All are welcome to join OA and are not excluded because of race, creed, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other attribute.
ParentChild+ – A free home visiting program that promotes creative ways to learn through play, increases parenting skills and helps children prepare for school. Our mission is to ensure that all children regardless of their race, socio-economic status, or zip code have equal possibilities from the start. We work with families, caregivers, and communities to support not only early literacy and school readiness, but early opportunities
Perpich Arts High School – A tuition-free, public, residential high school for students in 11th and 12th grades. The school is part of Perpich Center for Arts Education, a state agency created in 1985 to promote access to and opportunities in arts education for all Minnesota students, teachers and schools.
Applicants go through a competitive application and review process. Perpich wants students with three things: passion for their art, potential, and curiosity! Arts and academics are equally important and are both taught through creative and analytical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making.
Perpich is a college preparatory program. That means an academic program with English, mathematics, science, social studies, and world languages. Arts courses also are college preparatory and require college-level reading and written work in addition to technical work in the particular art area.
Shout Out Loud – The mission of Shout Out Loud is to raise awareness about suicide prevention in our local community and schools, normalize conversations around mental health, and teach coping skills and strategies that support a person’s mental wellness.
The Twin Cities Men’s Center – The Men’s Center equips men to develop healthy and mature masculinities, building healthier family and community relationships. Our offerings break down into 4 categories; 1) we host presentations on a variety of topics for both men and women around different aspects of life and well-being, 2) we host a monthly Family Law Clinic where men and women can meet with family law attorneys and ask questions about divorce/separation/custody issues, etc, for a nominal donation, 3) we offer a variety of support groups, both online and in person for both men and women, addressing topics such as gay issues, addition issues and healthy boundaries, and 4) we offer 4 different Anger Management programs for both men and women equipping them with the tools to effectively manage anger in a safe healthy way.
Walk in Counseling – To provide free, confidential, “no red tape” counseling to individuals and families in need, typically on a short-term basis. This is provided through the volunteer work of mental health professionals donating their time and advanced graduate students from mental halth fields. We hve been serving since 1969 — 56 years. We are the only program in the Upper Midwest to ever have received the American Psychiatric Assn.’s Gold Achievement Award in hospital & community psychiatry.
Wellness in the Woods – Our mission is to provide peer-led resources that are: accessible, affordable, compassionate, and nonjudgmental, in order to provide opportunities for those who are experiencing or have been affected by mental health and substance use challenges to be heard.
