Brightwater Health

Brightwater Health

Formerly, Human Development Center (HDC)

OUR MISSION:

Brightwater Health's mission is to foster hope, resilience, and recovery by providing 

integrated, culturally respectful mental health and recovery services.

Building Brighter Futures with Brightwater Health.

Your donation makes an impact right here in the Northland. Your contribution stays local to help friends and neighbors get the care they need to survive and thrive in their mental health.

About Us

For generations, we’ve stood beside the Northland community — providing hope, healing, and recovery for those facing mental health and substance use disorder challenges. Together, we can continue the work that saves lives. 

Formerly the Human Development Center (HDC), Brightwater Health was established in 1938 as a nonprofit community mental health center, created to support individuals and families across the Northland facing mental health challenges. More than 80 years later, our mission remains clear: to foster hope, resilience, and recovery by providing integrated, culturally respectful mental health and addiction services—every single day. 

Today, Brightwater Health is the largest community mental health provider in Northern Minnesota, delivering coordinated care for people of all ages across Carlton, Lake, and St. Louis counties in Minnesota, and Douglas County in Wisconsin. Our services have grown to meet the diverse needs of the communities we serve—while keeping accessibility at the heart of everything we do.

All those who seek Brightwater's help can expect the highest quality of care with rapid and unobstructed access to care for all people regardless of personal circumstances or ability to pay.

We need your help! With a gift of $25, $50, or even $100 you can help ensure that 

everyone gets the treatment they need and deserve!

Help us provide services from here, forward.

Almost half of all US adults will experience mental illness in their lifetime.

The majority of these individuals will not seek treatment due to stigma, cost or other reasons. Affordable, effective treatments exist, but ignoring these problems costs our communities so much more than caring for them now.

We can and must do better! Brightwater Health is part of our local community focusing on programs to bring change to stigma. Helping us helps your neighbors and community needing treatment and care. 

“What’s so important about a community mental health agency is that we need the support of our community... We need to bring awareness to the work that we are doing... The more our community can get behind us and support us through financial means, the more we can strengthen our community as a whole.” 

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