Duluth Mental Health Resources
If you or someone you love is struggling, you don’t have to sort out the system before you can ask for help. Call the Mental Health Hotline at 866-903-3787 to talk through what’s going on and get pointed toward mental health support in Duluth, any hour of the day or night.
If this is an emergency
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
If you are in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7.
Across northern Minnesota, the regional line answers around the clock at 844-772-4724, including here in Duluth.
The Mental Health Hotline is an information and referral service. It is not a substitute for emergency services.
Reaching out is hard, and whatever brought you here is reason enough. It might be depression that has taken the light out of things, worry about money or work that won’t let go, or a loss you are still carrying. You don’t need a diagnosis or a referral to start.
One number covers this whole part of the state. Call 844-772-4724 at any hour and you reach the crisis team for St. Louis, Carlton, Cook, Koochiching and Lake counties, along with the Bois Forte and Grand Portage Bands. Mobile response runs 24 hours a day, most insurance covers it including Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare, and nobody is turned away for being unable to pay.
If it would help to walk in somewhere, urgent behavioral health care is at 810 E. 4th St. from 8 in the morning until 8 at night on weekdays. That clinic takes anyone asking for help with mental health or substance use, whatever their age, wherever they live and whatever they can pay. For young people, Project Reach Out sends an unarmed team anywhere within about thirty miles of the city.
You don’t need to know which of these is right before you reach out. Whether you’re calling for yourself or for someone you love, the Mental Health Hotline can help you talk it through and find a place to start, at 866-903-3787. More Minnesota mental health resources are gathered on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Duluth
Some of these are for the worst night of your life. Others are for an ordinary Tuesday when you can’t face the week, and that counts too. If you’re not sure what happens when you dial, here’s what 988 does and who answers it.
Mental Health in Duluth, by the Numbers
Three numbers for Duluth, from the most recent round of CDC city-level modeling. If part of you has been wondering whether it’s just you, it isn’t.
Figures come from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, which models city-level estimates from 2023 BRFSS survey responses for adults 18 and over. Duluth ranks 21st of the 100 cities in this series for diagnosed depression, where 1 is the highest rate, while its health coverage is among the strongest here at 7.3 percent uninsured. Model-based estimates describe a population, not any one person in it.
Asking for help takes more than it should when you’re already worn down, and you shouldn’t have to do the sorting on your own. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you find the right next step in Duluth, whatever time it is. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.