PHONE AND ONLINE SUPPORT
聽651-288-0400聽 or text “Support” to 85511聽 聽 聽9am to 9pm 7 days a week
The Minnesota Warmline provides a peer-to-peer approach to mental health recovery, support and wellness. Calls are answered by our team of professionally trained Certified Peer Specialists, who have first hand experience living with a mental health condition.
The Warmline provides a safe, anonymous and confidential environment to connect with people who are here to listen鈥ere to help.
聽 聽Text MN to 741-741 for support.
聽 聽Online, on-demand emotional health and well-being service. 聽One-on-one chat from trained active listeners. 聽Also information on different emotional health topics.
GENERAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
聽 聽 Facilitated by young adults who live with mental illnesses who are doing well in recovery. 聽National Alliance on Mental Illness.聽 (online and some in person; check calendar for current status)聽 18-30
NAMI Support Group for BIPOC Community Members聽聽NAMI Connection offers a for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Color) LGBTQIA+ adults living with a mental illness.
– National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. (Meets in Minneapolis and St. Paul)
聽 Free, drop-in women’s support group through Tubman Center. Meets virtually Wednesdays 11-12.
聽 聽 National Alliance for the Mentally Ill聽– Support for families and friends of persons with mental illness. Groups available around the metro area. 651-645-2948
聽 聽Emotions Anonymous is a 12-Step group for people who want to get support for recovery from emotional difficulties. This site describes the program and has a group finder so you can locate a group near you. You may also call the AA Intergroup number for the Twin Cities at 952-922-0880.
— free online college student support group (national organization; open to the community)
ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCY
聽–聽Can give you the time and location of a group that will fit your schedule
聽–聽Support groups for those affected by someone else’s alcoholism
聽 “…the psychological (emotional) needs of women in recovery are very different from those of men. The New Life Program is directed to these specific needs of women in recovery.”
聽 “SMART Recovery is the leading self-empowering addiction recovery support group. Our participants learn tools for addiction recovery based on the latest scientific research and participate in a world-wide community which includes free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups.”
聽 For adults living with both a mental illness and chemical dependency; online and in-person groups.
ANXIETY
聽– Information about Open Door Outreach, Inc., an organization offering information and support groups for anxiety disorders in the Twin Cities. (Meets in Highland Park and Edina)
— free online College student support group (national organization; open to the community)
AUTISM / ASD
聽 聽Independent Adults with ASD Social Support Group; Women with ASD Support Group; LGBT-QIA Adults with Autism Support Group (meets in Midway St. Paul)
DEPRESSION
聽 聽 Local support for men with depression.聽 Hosts several groups around the Twin Cities that meet every other week.
聽through the Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance
— free online Anxiety & Depression support group (national organization; open to the community)
EATING DISORDERS
聽— free support group for eating disorders.聽聽Monday nights聽from 6:30-8:00pm Hosts weekly support groups for members of the community who are struggling to recover from an eating disorder.聽 Currently meeting virtually through Zoom on Monday nights from 6:30-8:00pm.For link and password, contact us at聽info@joyproject.org.
— free online support groups for Eating Disorders, Binge Eating, and LGBTQ+ Eating Disorder/Body Image.聽 Free and open to the community (national organization)
NEDA
GRIEF SUPPORT
SEXUAL ASSAULT & RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE
— Sexual Assault support group; Relationship Violence Support group; Survivors of Color Support Group (for people who have experienced relationship violence and/or sexual assault); Queer Survivors Group; free, available to Augsburg students
— Tubman聽 聽 An ongoing, drop-in support group for people who are experiencing or have experienced relationship abuse, including emotional, verbal, physical, sexual or financial abuse. Participants at all stages of healing are welcome.