State and County Public Healthcare Programs Assistance
Most counties in Minnesota offer assistance with health insurance registration, medical emergencies and other basic needs. See a list of all public health care programs by county here.
Some counties have assistance programs directed to artists and creative self-employed individuals specifically. Where those resources exist, we will highlight them below:
Dakota County METS Health Care Team (for Dakota County residents)
Website
Email: eeadocs@co.dakota.mn.us (preferred method)
Mail or physical address: 1 Mendota Road W., Suite 100, West St Paul, MN 55118
Community Health Centers
The Minnesota Health Centers page maintains a directory of community health centers across the state. "Minnesota’s community health centers offer a broad range of services regardless of your ability to pay. Whether you have insurance or not, we will work with you to make sure the high quality care you receive is affordable through a sliding fee discount program."
Also see the MN Low-Cost Health Care Directory, a list of low-cost or free physical, mental and dental health care clinics, compiled by Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota to help uninsured and underinsured Minnesotans find access to affordable health care.
Twin Cities Metro
There are over a dozen community health centers in Minneapolis, St. Paul and surrounding suburbs. See a full list here.
Northeast Minnesota / Arrowhead
Lake Superior Community Health
Duluth
Scenic Rivers Health Services
Locations in Big Falls, Bigfork, Cook, Eveleth, Floodwood, Northome and Tower
Southern Minnesota
Open Door Health Center
Mankato and Jordan (dental)
Central Minnesota
Community Health Service, Inc.
Willmar
Northwestern Minnesota
Community Health Service, Inc.
Moorhead, Crookston, and Grafton, ND
Southeastern Minnesota
Community Health Service, Inc.
Rochester
Indian Health Services
The Bemidji Area Office (BAO) of the Indian Health Service provides service and support to 34 Federally-recognized Tribes and 4 Urban Indian Health programs located in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Indian Health Board of Minneapolis is located in Minneapolis, MN. Tribes in the Bemidji Area include Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Mohican, Oneida, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Sioux.
The BAO operates 3 Federal/direct service programs on behalf of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota:
Cass Lake Hospital
Red Lake Hospital
White Earth Health Center
Minnesota Dental Association
A list of resources for low-cost dental care in the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.
Donated Dental Services (DDS), Dental Lifeline Network
Applications for free dental services for those over 65 years of age, permanently disabled and/or in need of medically necessary dental care, outside of Anoka, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing, Dakota, Fillmore, Grant, Hennepin, Houston, Isanti, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Mille Lacs, Otter Tail, Pine, Renville, Rice, Scott, Sherburne, St. Louis, Stearns, Steele, Todd, Waseca and Wright Counties, unless you have documentation from a physician.
Reproductive Healthcare
Twin Cities Metro
Family Tree Clinic
Family Tree Clinic is a St. Paul-based reproductive and sexual health care clinic. They offer sliding-scale birth control without an exam, low-cost and no-cost Rapid HIV testing for uninsured patients, comprehensive STI testing and treatment, urinary and vaginal infection testing and treatment, annual exams, Pap tests, birth control, including IUDs and Implanon (arm implants), emergency contraception, breast/chest exams and mammogram referrals, limited primary care services and more.
The SPIRAL Collective is a chronically ill, disabled, queer, trans, BIPOC-centered full spectrum reproductive + healing justice and care work nonprofit. We accomplish this by providing trauma-informed, client + healing centered practical abortion support, community-based education, and culture/narrative shifting practice.
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota
Planned Parenthood provides reproductive health care, sex education, and information in Minnesota and nationwide. In the Twin Cities, health centers are located in Apple Valley, Brooklyn Park, Eden Prairie, Minneapolis, Richfield, St. Paul and Woodbury.
Duluth
WE Clinic
WE Clinic is the only abortion provider in Northern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Since 1981 we have been providing sexual, reproductive, and abortion services as Women’s Health Center, and starting in 2019, as WE Health Clinic.
The Militia provides financial assistance to individuals seeking abortions in the Twin Ports, breaking down barriers for those most in need – low-income women, women of color, queer women, young women, queer young people, transgender individuals.
Fargo-Moorhead
Red River Women's Clinic
offers high-quality affordable abortion care and family planning services to the Fargo-Moorhead area, all of North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota and South Dakota.
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota
Planned Parenthood provides reproductive health care, sex education, and information in Minnesota and nationwide. In Northeast MN, health centers are located in Moorhead and Bemidji.
Statewide
Our Justice
Our Justice is an abortion fund providing direct financial and logistical support for people seeking abortion care.
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota
Planned Parenthood provides reproductive health care, sex education, and information in Minnesota and nationwide.Health centers are located in the following regions:
Southern Minnesota
Mankato
Central Minnesota
St. Cloud
Willmar
Southeastern Minnesota
Rochester
