MDN SUPPORT & RECOVERY
You do not have to know what kind of help you need to start looking.
Sometimes the problem is depression, trauma, alcohol, isolation, transition, grief, housing pressure, or just knowing you are not doing well. MDN separates crisis help, clinical care, peer/community support, outdoor or retreat programs, practical-life resources, and help for someone you are worried about so you can find a real next human connection.
✓ No diagnosis✓ No suicide-risk score✓ No account✓ No medical-record upload✓ Official sources control
IF SAFETY CANNOT WAIT
If you may hurt yourself or someone else, or you do not feel safe right now
Use a live crisis or emergency channel now. You do not need to finish this page first.
Emergency suicide care: VA may cover eligible Veterans’ acute suicide-crisis care at VA or non-VA facilities even when they are not enrolled in VA health care. Eligibility and medical criteria apply; use emergency care first and verify the COMPACT Act rules with VA.
START WHERE YOU ARE
What is closest to what is happening?
Pick the closest situation. MDN will show several legitimate lanes instead of forcing everything into “call 988” or “go to therapy.”
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Support data is unavailable. If safety is at risk, use 988/911/emergency care. Otherwise use the official locators below instead of relying on an incomplete MDN result.
YOUR SUPPORT MAP
Community support and treatment are not interchangeable. A ranch, fishing program, fitness group, retreat, or peer community may be valuable for connection and purpose, but it is not automatically clinical care and is never an emergency service. Use both lanes when both are needed.
I’M WORRIED ABOUT SOMEBODY ELSE
You do not need a suicide-risk score to take a change seriously.
VA guidance encourages family, friends, and peers to notice changes, start a direct conversation, ask about suicide when warning signs are present, and connect the person to help.
What you can do
FIND LOCAL HELP WITHOUT GIVING MDN YOUR GPS
Use the official locator when precise location matters.
MDN does not need your street address or device location. These live official directories are better maintained for nearby clinical care and installation support than a static MDN location database would be.
VA facility locatorVA medical centers, clinics, and servicesFind a VA location →Vet Center directoryCommunity-based readjustment counseling and outreachFind a Vet Center →MFLC locatorMilitary & Family Life Counselors near installations and unitsFind an MFLC →SAMHSA treatment locatorsAnonymous mental-health and substance-use treatment searchFind treatment →
COMMUNITY & SUPPORT DIRECTORY — PUBLIC BETA
Clinical care is not the only legitimate form of support.
Browse official programs and vetted community organizations for counseling, peer connection, outdoor activity, purpose, family support, and recovery. Inclusion means “resource worth investigating,” not MDN endorsement.
No matching resource in the current curated set.
Use the official locators above for local clinical care, or clear the filters. The community directory is intentionally incomplete during public beta.
How MDN handles this categoryMDN will not rank someone’s suicide risk, tell them a community program is treatment when it is not, or treat one organization as universally appropriate.
- Crisis routes stay visible and immediate.
- Clinical, non-medical counseling, peer/community, outdoor, housing, and supporter lanes stay visibly separate.
- Community organizations are labeled as community resources and must be re-verified over time.
- No pathway requires a name, SSN, VA number, diagnosis, or medical-record upload.
- Selections and search terms stay in the browser and are not intentionally sent to analytics.