Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis, 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.
In Hennepin County, Cope answers around the clock at 612-596-1223, for adults and children alike.
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. You may be living with depression that has settled over everything, anxiety that won’t quiet down, or a winter that went on longer than you could carry. You don’t need a diagnosis or a referral to start.
Hennepin County has simplified this recently. There used to be separate numbers for adults and children, and now there is one: 612-596-1223, answered every hour of every day by Cope. It costs nothing regardless of your insurance, and if you do have coverage they bill it but never collect a co-pay from you. The team has bilingual and bicultural staff and can meet you by phone, by video or face to face.
Two things about Cope are worth saying plainly. It is separate from the police, and the mobile team comes to wherever you are rather than asking you to travel. Minneapolis also funds its own Behavioral Crisis Response, unarmed mental health workers who answer 911 calls about mental health instead of officers, so asking for them by name when you call is worth knowing about.
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 Minneapolis
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 Minneapolis, by the Numbers
Three numbers for Minneapolis, 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. Minneapolis ranks 10th of the 100 cities in this series for diagnosed depression, where 1 is the highest rate, and sits above the Minnesota figure of 24.4 percent. Its other measures are closer to the middle. 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 Minneapolis, whatever time it is. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.