Emergencies

Emergencies
  • Child Crisis Services
    Provides on-site crisis assessment and intervention services for children experiencing mental health crisis.
  • Crisis Services for Adults (COPE)
    COPE provides mobile crisis services for adults experiencing a severe disturbance in mood or thinking that threatens a person's safety.
  • Emergency Management
    The Emergency Preparedness Division ensures statutory compliance and maximizes the capability of the county to respond to and recover from disasters.
  • Emergency Programs
    These programs provide short-term assistance for people in a crisis such as fire, flood, utility shut-off, eviction, foreclosure, accident or illness, or need for food.
  • Hennepin County Outdoor Warning Sirens
    What you need to know about Hennepin County's outdoor warning sirens.
  • Public Health Emergencies
    Hennepin County Public Health Protection continually builds the county’s capacity to respond to large-scale public health emergencies.
  • Report Abuse or Neglect of a Vulnerable Adult
    If you suspect abuse or neglect of a vulnerable person, call 612-348-8526 (the Common Entry Point) 24 hours a day.
  • Reporting Child Abuse or Neglect
    How to report suspected child abuse or neglect (child maltreatment).

Vaccine

Public Health Emergencies

Learn about the county's role -- and what you can do -- in public health emergencies, from epidemics to bioterrorism. Includes information about H1N1 influenza.

Read more about Public Health Emergencies