As of April 1, 2018, Minnesota’s suicide prevention and mental health crisis texting services are now available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. People who text MN to 741741 will be connected to Crisis Text Line. Crisis Text Line handles 50,000 messages per month and over 20 million messages since 2013 from across the U.S., connecting people to local resources in their community. For callers who are the most in distress, average wait times for a response is only 39 seconds.
We have a range of materials below available to you to use electronically and to download. These materials may be resized but the content cannot be altered without the permission of DHS. For more information, contact us at dhs.cmhcrisis@state.mn.us.
There will soon be more on-the-ground suicide prevention services across the state. DHS is in the process of selecting contractor(s) to: