Adult mental health resources

Minnesota Board of Behavior Health and Therapy
The Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy's mission is to protect the public through effective licensure and enforcement of statutes and rules governing professional counseling to ensure a standard of competent and ethical practice.

Minnesota Board of Psychology
The Board of Psychology was created to protect the public by enforcing rules and laws for licensing psychologists and psychological practitioners, and by regulating their professional conduct.

Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid
This agency protects and advocates for the rights of people with mental illnesses and investigate reports of abuse and neglect in public or private facilities that care for or treat people with mental illnesses.

Minnesota Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
This office assists people receiving services for mental illness, developmental disabilities, chemical dependency or emotional disturbance.

Local organizations

Mental Health Association of Minnesota
This organization focuses on advocacy, education and arts.

Minnesota Board of Social Work
The Minnesota Board of Social Work is an independent state agency. The Board of Social Work holds social workers accountable by ensuring that licensed social workers are qualified, professional, ethical, and accountable. It does this initially through the examination and licensure process and, on an ongoing basis, by license renewal: continuing education: supervision requirements to ensure continued competence: and through the complaint resolution process when professional standards are not met.

NAMI-MN (National Alliance on Mental Illness: Minnesota Chapter)
Through education, advocacy and support, this organization strives to eliminate the pervasive stigma of mental illness.

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SA/VE)
This organization provides education on suicide prevention and speaks for suicide survivors.

Walk-In Counseling Center
Counseling services are free and anonymous. No appointment needed.

National organizations

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Formerly known as the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, this organization aims to improve the lives of people living with mood disorders.

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
NAMI is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders.

National Association for Social Workers
Founded in 1955, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world, with more than 120,000 members. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.

National Empowerment Center
This center is a consumer organization whose mission is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been diagnosed with mental illness.

Mental Health America
(Formerly known as National Mental Health Association) This organization works to improve the mental health of Americans through advocacy, education, research and service.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
This agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Benefits.gov
This site features information about federal program benefits for which citizens may be eligible.

HealthCare.gov
This website provides consumers information about private and public health coverage options.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This federal agency supports some 35,000 research projects nationwide.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIMH conducts basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and cure.

SAMHSA
The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This is the federal agency responsible to protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services.