While in the Twin Cities

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Minnesota

MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS TEAMS

Crisis teams, made up of mental health professionals, can travel to an individual’s location and assess the situation. They provide stabilization services, intervention services, crisis prevention planning, referral to other professionals, and follow-up services.The crisis teams are available by phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. NAMI members are urged to call them when someone is suicidal, psychotic, exhibiting out of control behavior, or threatening to harm themselves or others.

Call the team in your area:

Hennepin County: adults or children – 612-596-122

URGENT CARE FOR ADULT MENTAL HEALTH

402 University Ave. E. St. Paul, MN

651-266-7900

Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Saturday – Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

For more information, please visit the NAMI's website.

Campus Safe Walk Service - 612-624-WALK

The campus Safe Walk service is available 24 hours/day, 365 days/year. It is FREE!

Any student, staff, faculty, or visitor to the University of Minnesota may use the service to and/or from campus locations.

Security escorts are available to/from off-campus locations that are within a reasonable distance (about 1 mile).

Call 612-624-9255 (WALK) 15-30 minutes prior to your desired departure time.

Learn more here.

Campus Connector

All campus buses are FREE and equipped with wheelchair lifts and bike racks. In addition, buses have double door openings with rider-controlled push buttons inside and out.

The GopherTrip app can be found in the Apple store for iPhones and iPads and on GooglePlay for Android devices.

Metro Transit

Metro Transit is the bus and train provider in the Minneapolis-St .Paul metropolitan area. Its buses and trains travel across the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. However, it is NOT FREE. You will need to pay approximately $2/each trip within two hours (far and near) and you can commute.

Various bus routes will bring you from/to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, such as bus routes 3, 6, and 2.

You can also ride the Metro Green Line light rail train to travel between downtown St. Paul and downtown Minneapolis.

You can download the app from here.