Substance Use and Recovery
- https://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/
- http://www.samhsa.gov/treatment/substance-use-disorders
- http://www.aa.org
- http://www.naminnesota.org/
- https://al-anon.org/al-anon-meetings/
Suicide Prevention
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org
- https://www.crisistextline.org/
- https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
- https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/988
- https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
Domestic Violence
Gambling
1-800-333-HOPE (4673)
If you think someone you know may have a gambling problem, please call 1-800-333-HOPE (4673).
Veteran Resources
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS): www.taps.org/suicideloss
The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) offers special programming and resources for Veteran and military-connected survivors of suicide loss.
- For a list of support groups held throughout Minnesota & the U.S., please visit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention website for a group close to your location: https://afsp.org/find-a-support-group
- Uniting For Suicide Postvention (USPV): Uniting for Suicide Postvention – MIRECC / CoE (va.gov)
This is a website put together by the Rocky Mountain MIRECC and the VA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. USPV website has education, links, and resources for suicide loss survivors in the community, workplace, as well as for providers.
- Alliance of Hope for Suicide Survivors: http://www.allianceofhope.org/
This organization for survivors of suicide loss provides information sheets, a blog, and a community forum. Through the forum, survivors can contact others with similar losses, share their stories, and discuss healing from a loss by suicide. The forum operates like a 24/7 support group with a team of trained moderators and a mental health clinician who contributes regularly.
- Friends for Survival: http://www.friendsforsurvival.org
This organization is for people who have lost family or friends to suicide and professionals who work with people who have been touched by suicide. All the staff and volunteers have been directly impacted by a suicide death. The organization produces a monthly newsletter and runs the Suicide Loss Helpline (1-800-646-7322), which is available 9 a.m.–9 p.m. PT, seven days a week. During COVID-19 they are offering an online loss survivor support group.
- Healing Conversations: https://afsp.org/find-support/ive-lost-someone/healing-conversations/
Offers in person, by phone, or video chat support. However, it’s not a hotline, you have to contact their coordinator or fill out a form to get connected to someone who can create more of a long-term peer support relationship with you.
Misc. Resources
- http://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/hiv-aids/
- http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/index.html
- http://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/default.htm