Little Rock Mental Health Hotline

Free, confidential support for Little Rock residents — available 24/7.

Call 866-903-3787

⚠ Safety Notice

If you or someone you love is in immediate danger, call 911.

If you’re having thoughts of suicide or are in emotional crisis, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

The Mental Health Hotline is a support and resource line, not a substitute for emergency services.

Little Rock is a mid-sized city with friendly residents, mild winters and plenty of culture. Its residents are not immune to the mental health challenges that can turn up anywhere, and there are several good places here to turn for help.

Across Arkansas, about 457,000 adults live with a mental health condition, close to five times the population of Fayetteville. Four in ten state residents have reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, and a quarter of those people say they have not been able to get proper treatment.

The Mental Health Hotline can help you find a starting point. Calling is free and confidential, and the line is open 24/7. Call 866-903-3787 to ask about mental health resources and treatment options in the Little Rock area, whether that means therapy, psychiatric care or help with substance use.

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Options for Little Rock Hotlines

Little Rock is not a huge metropolis, but it has big-city resources when it comes to mental health. The list below starts with the Mental Health Hotline and moves outward to statewide and national lines. If you are dealing with an emergency right now, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. For options elsewhere in the state, see our Arkansas mental health hotline page.

Mental Health Hotline
Call anytime, day or night, to reach the Mental Health Hotline. We can help you find mental health resources in the Little Rock area and answer your questions. Free, confidential and available 24/7.
866-903-3787
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Free, confidential support 24/7 for anyone in emotional distress or suicidal crisis. Calls, texts and chats from Arkansas are answered in state. Call or text 988.
Arkansas Crisis Center
An Arkansas nonprofit running a 24/7 crisis hotline and text and chat service for all 75 counties, and answering the state's 988 contacts. Call 888-274-7472.
UAMS AR ConnectNow
A call centre staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for anyone in Arkansas dealing with stress, anxiety or depression. Call 501-526-3563 or 800-482-9921.
UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute
Assessment, diagnosis and treatment for conditions including depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, plus outpatient therapy and medication management. Call 501-526-8100, or 501-526-8200 for appointments.
Centers for Youth and Families
A Little Rock nonprofit providing therapy for children, adolescents and families, with both residential and outpatient programmes and on-site work in local schools. Call 501-666-8686.
Arkansas 211
A free statewide referral service. Dial 211 to be pointed toward local mental health care, housing, food assistance and utility help, 24 hours a day.
Veterans Crisis Line
Confidential support for veterans, service members and their families, staffed by people who understand military service. Call 988 and press 1, or text 838255.
SAMHSA National Helpline
A free treatment referral and information service, not a counseling line. Staff can point you to local treatment and support groups. Available 24/7 at 800-662-4357.
NAMI HelpLine
Free information, resource referrals and support from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Not a crisis line. Call 800-950-6264 or text NAMI to 62640, Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET.

Little Rock Mental Health Statistics to Know

The number that stands out for Little Rock is not a diagnosis rate. It is how many people here say they do not have the social and emotional support they need: more than one in four adults, the 15th highest share among the 100 large cities we cover. Isolation is its own risk factor, and it is one a phone call can start to work against.

There is a more hopeful figure alongside it. Little Rock has one of the highest routine checkup rates in the country, which means most adults here already have a doctor they see. That is often the easiest place to raise a mental health concern for the first time.

of Little Rock adults lack the social and emotional support they need
0 %
of Little Rock adults have been told they have depression
0 %
of Little Rock adults saw a doctor for a routine checkup last year
0 %

Sources: Little Rock figures are model-based estimates from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, built on 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data: 28.3% of adults reported a lack of social and emotional support (95% CI 25.3–31.6), 22.7% reported a depression diagnosis (95% CI 19.8–25.5), 80.5% had a routine checkup in the past year (95% CI 77.5–83.1), and 23.0% rated their health as fair or poor. The statewide figures above come from NAMI Arkansas.

Help Is Here

If you or someone you love is dealing with a mental health challenge in Little Rock, the resources on this page are real and reachable. The difficulty is usually working out which one fits, and doing it while you are already worn down.

The Mental Health Hotline is free to call, confidential and open 24 hours a day. Call 866-903-3787 to ask about your options and get pointed toward support in the Little Rock area.

Call 866-903-3787

Call when you’re ready.