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Provides onsite, in-person intervention for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, including youth and adults, that dispatches mental health professionals to homes, schools, ERs, or other public places where a mental health crisis is occurring. Response time is within 60 minutes of MCAT's dispatch.

Services include:

- Developing safety plans, making referrals, and scheduling follow-up services with individuals to avoid hospitalization.

- Assessing individuals to determine the need for a higher level of care.

- De-escalating crisis situations.

- Arranging transportation to a higher level of care as needed.

Inpatient unit for those in acute psychiatric crisis, which may include an acute psychosis or to prevent harm to him/herself or others.

The goal is to stabilize and then help the patient transition to a lower level of care once their thoughts, mood, behaviors have stabilized via medication management or through individual and/or group therapies.

Provides a free, confidential information and referral hotline for Iowa families. Services include individual and family stress counseling, peer counseling facilitated by individuals with shared experiences, assistance with personal and small business financial problems, legal education, support for basic needs such as food, fuel, shelter, and medical help, and disaster-related information.

24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

Crisis Lifeline provides free and confidential support to individuals in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.

Veterans may indicate their veteran status to be connected to VA suicide prevention and mental health professionals. 

Provides crisis intervention services to individuals experiencing a major life crisis. Individuals are evaluated by clinical staff to determine whether crisis can be deflected or a referral for psychiatric hospitalization is required. 

Crisis line with a national network of suicide prevention and mental health service providers.

Veterans may indicate their veteran status to be connected to VA suicide prevention and mental health professionals.

24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

Provides YOUR LIFE IOWA (https://yourlifeiowa.org), the go to resource for information, resources and help, including crisis services related to gambling, mental health, substance use, suicide, and related concerns (such as bullying, brain injury, children's mental health, overdose reversal, etc.). Services are free and confidential. Your Life Iowa is accessible via website, online chat, text, or phone 24/7. Your Life Iowa is funded by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services and managed by Foundation 2.

***IDHHS has created a new BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEM which can be accessed by calling Your Life Iowa. A navigator will help individuals find and access mental health and substance abuse services.

Provides the Screening, Assessment, and Support Services, (SASS) program that is a crisis mental health program for children and adolescents. SASS serves children experiencing a mental health crisis. SASS services are available by calling the CARES line.

Inpatient unit for those in acute psychiatric crisis, which may include an acute psychosis or to prevent harm to him/herself or others.

The goal is to stabilize and then help the patient transition to a lower level of care once their thoughts, mood, behaviors have stabilized via medication management or through individual and/or group therapies.

24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

Inpatient unit for those in acute psychiatric crisis, which may include an acute psychosis or to prevent harm to him/herself or others.

The goal is to stabilize and then help the patient transition to a lower level of care once their thoughts, mood, behaviors have stabilized via medication management or through individual and/or group therapies.

24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

Crisis services provide a focused assessment and rapid stabilization of acute symptoms of mental illness or emotional distress and are available and accessible 24 hours a day.

Clinical assessment and psychotherapeutic services are provided by a mental health professional and/or staff who access a mental health professional for consultation.

Emergency services are available by phone and/or in the office setting.

24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

Offers a 24-hour crisis support hotline open to anyone in need.

Provides the Screening, Assessment, and Support Services, (SASS) program that is a crisis mental health program for children and adolescents. SASS serves children experiencing a mental health crisis. SASS services are available by calling the CARES line.

Trained crisis responders answer calls and texts 24 hours a day, to listen to and help anyone who is feeling depressed, stressed, hopeless, thinking about hurting themself or others, dealing with alcohol/substance use, and more.

Service is free and private.

Provides a crisis hotline for youth and their families to utilize in times of a mental health crisis.