Prevention and Mental Wellness Resources

Mental Wellness Campaign for Anoka County is a non-profit organization is designed and created to erase the stigma of mental illness.

Make it OK – This campaign within MWCAC works to advance mental illness stigma reduction and community education related to mental illness.

Anoka County Community Action Program Resource Guide – This guide provides information on accessing housing, education, employment, legal, and other basic needs resources.

Change to Chill – This program offers free online mental health resources for teens and their parents designed to help them learn how to relax and integrate healthy habits into their lifestyle. Change to Chill operates in the areas Allina Health serves, including Anoka County.

Anoka County Behavioral Health Services provide resources on mental health, suicide prevention, and crisis services.

You may be eligible for a number of benefits and assistance programs offered by Anoka County, including financial support, healthcare, housing, mental health, protective services, long-term care and disability support, and respite care. You can find a description of all of these benefits and services at this link.

Hello4Health by Allina Health is an online resource designed to build or strengthen the social connections in our lives. With fun activities for connecting with others and new ways to build connection skills, Hello4Health hopes to help you increase your connectedness—and increase your wellness.

NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults with mental illnesses and their families. NAMI provides many resources including informational materials, support groups, a helpline for navigating the mental health system, and more.

The Minnesota Suicide Prevention Trainer Network utilizes a collaborative approach to suicide prevention to provide education, training and resources on suicide prevention to all Minnesotans.

Minnesota Association of Resources for Recovery and Chemical Health (MARRCH) offers the Minnesota Recovery Index, a tool for individuals to identify service providers who can offer support on anything from treatment centers to mental health counseling and more.

Resources specifically for veterans are available. Click on this link and filter by group to select ‘Veterans’ to find resources from the VA and more.

If you have a child with special needs, you may be eligible for respite care, which provides temporary relief care through Anoka County or other options. You can find a description of these services at this link.

Find resources from Sagent Behavioral Health (formerly Nystrom & Associates) on suicide screening, assessment, and intervention training at this link.