Behavioral Health Resources

Through their Local Mental Health and Substance Use Authorities, counties provide services for mental health and substance use disorders. They also run receiving centers and mobile crisis outreach teams throughout the state.

Learn more about receiving centers here:

These centers offer therapy, substance use disorder treatment, support groups, mobile services, youth treatment, and more. Different centers offer different services, but all provide help to individuals in their communities.

To learn more about the services offered at the centers or to make an appointment, please visit the center websites linked below:

Other mental health and substance use treatment centers in your area can be found here.

A receiving center is a 24/7 community center staffed by therapists, nursing staff, and peer support counselors (someone who has been through something similar and understands what it is like) to provide treatment for individuals in mental health or substance use crisis. Individuals are assessed, stabilized, and observed in a recliner for up to 23 hours.

Most individuals are stabilized within these 23 hours and are then linked with a treatment program upon discharge. Individuals may walk in, be brought by friends or family, or dropped off by law enforcement. For more information about receiving centers, please click here.

Receiving Centers are currently located in Layton, Davis County; Provo, Utah County; Ogden, Weber County at McKay-Dee Hospital; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County at the Mental Health Crisis Care Center; Hurricane, Washington County; and Price, Carbon County; with more being built in Logan, Cache County and more on the way.

A mobile crisis outreach team (MCOT) is a unit made up of a therapist and a peer support counselor (someone who has been through something similar and understands what it is like) that is deployed to help someone in the middle of a mental health or substance use crisis.

They arrive in an unmarked car without sirens or lights, which allows individuals to maintain privacy and keeps them from undergoing additional trauma. They stabilize individuals wherever they are, and then refer the individual to follow-up services.

If you need an MCOT sent to you or someone you know, please call the crisis line at 988. MCOTs are available in all counties.