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Minneapolis Public Schools has school-based mental health services for students when school is in session. We continue to think about how we can support our educational community during this time that schools are closed due to COVID-19.
If your student receives school based mental health services when school is in session, these services are still available when school is closed. Your health care provider should have already reached out to you or you can call your school social worker to get reconnected. School based clinics in the high schools are still providing their services and can also provide mental health services for students.
Also see the MPS resources on how to support children with grief and loss.
If someone in your family is experiencing a mental health crisis, please call the Hennepin County Crisis teams:
Hennepin County services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for anyone in crisis in Hennepin County.
Currently, they are providing:
The School Based Clinics are doing telehealth appointments during school closures. Students can text or leave voicemails at the clinic’s main phone numbers; medical assistants are checking messages regularly:
The Partnership for Drug-free Kids provides a range of text-based and online supports on how to respond to substance use and addiction, from prevention to recovery. Find out more here.