New Jersey Mental Health Hotline
Free, confidential support for New Jersey residents — available 24/7.
⚠ 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 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
The Mental Health Hotline offers support and resources. It is not a substitute for emergency services.
Are you struggling with your mental health? If so, you are not alone. More than a million adults in New Jersey live with a mental health condition, and nearly 28% of them never receive any treatment for it.
Adults are not the only ones affected. Around 141,000 New Jersey adolescents between 12 and 17 experience a major depressive episode each year, and more than a third of them receive no care at all. Roughly 27.8% of adults in the state report symptoms of anxiety or depression.
Behind those numbers is a simple pattern: many people struggle quietly, youth are under rising strain, and the gap between needing treatment and getting it stays wide. There is help that is free, confidential and available to every New Jersey resident, whatever your insurance or income looks like. The resources below are a place to start.
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Options for New Jersey Hotlines
The following resources provide support, information and connections to care across New Jersey. The Mental Health Hotline is one of several places to turn, so explore what fits your needs.
Local Resources by City
For city-specific mental health resources in New Jersey, explore the pages below:
New Jersey Mental Health Statistics to Know
The size of the treatment gap in New Jersey is the clearest argument for reaching out. These figures show what it looks like:
Additional finding: More than a third of those adolescents receive no care at all. Figures are from NAMI’s New Jersey state fact sheet and its 2025 New Jersey data sheet.
Quick Questions
Yes. Every hotline and service listed on this page is free to contact.
These services treat what you share as confidential and follow their own privacy protocols. Practices vary between organizations, and most make an exception where there is an immediate safety risk. If it matters to you, it is reasonable to ask at the start of a call how your information will be handled.
You can call again, or try a different line. A different service may feel more comfortable or more closely aligned with what you need.
Help Is Here
Whether you are calling for yourself or for someone else, the services on this page are real help for a real need. If today feels like too much to carry, that is a reason to reach out rather than a reason to wait.
The Mental Health Hotline can answer your questions and help you find the option that fits your situation, whatever your insurance or income looks like. Start with one call, one text or one chat.
Call when you’re ready.