Mental Health Resources in Middlesex County, NJ
If someone in Middlesex County is in immediate danger, call 911. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988. The county's state-designated psychiatric emergency screening service is Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, 671 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, on its 24-hour screening line, 732-235-5700. Rutgers describes the service as available to adults. Middlesex also has an Affiliated Emergency Service at Raritan Bay Medical Center, 530 New Brunswick Avenue, Perth Amboy, 732-324-5289. For a child or teen who is not in immediate danger, call PerformCare (1-877-652-7624, 24/7). To find ongoing care, NJMentalHealthCares (1-866-202-4357, every day, 8am to 8pm) costs nothing and is not a crisis line. If cost is the obstacle, the Rutgers Center for Psychological Services (GSAPP), 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, 848-445-6111, is a university training clinic. Some GSAPP clinics offer low-cost services based on household income and ability to pay.
Listings below were checked against the organization's own website or a government source in the verification pass of September 20, 2026.
Middlesex County's crisis screening center
Every New Jersey county has a state-designated screening service that evaluates psychiatric emergencies around the clock. This is Middlesex County's.
Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care
The state-designated psychiatric emergency screening service for Middlesex County.
671 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ
24/7 emergency psychiatric screening, crisis intervention and stabilization, mobile outreach evaluations for adults in the community, and referral into outpatient, partial hospital, or inpatient care. Rutgers describes the service as available to adults.
Cost: Screening centers evaluate people in a psychiatric emergency whether or not they have insurance.
Middlesex County also has an Affiliated Emergency Service at Raritan Bay Medical Center, 530 New Brunswick Avenue, Perth Amboy — 732-324-5289. For a child or teen who is not in immediate danger, call PerformCare (1-877-652-7624, 24/7). It dispatches Children's Mobile Response and, if a child needs a hospital evaluation, refers the family to a screening center.
Visit website →If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. You can also call or text 988 from anywhere, any time.
Free help finding care
These lines are staffed by people whose whole job is matching you to a provider. They cost nothing and are usually the fastest way past a stack of outdated directories.
NJMentalHealthCares
New Jersey's statewide behavioral health information and referral service.
Trained specialists help you find local mental health care and talk through what kind of care fits. Open every day, 8am to 8pm. It is not a crisis line. Outside those hours, call or text 988 or the county screening center above. Deaf or hard-of-hearing callers can reach it through NJ Relay, 711.
Cost: Free.
Visit website →Rutgers UBHC Access Center
The intake line for Rutgers' county-wide outpatient network.
Outpatient offices in Edison, Monmouth Junction, and New Brunswick. It is also the number Rutgers lists for its adult intensive outpatient programs. Rutgers' TMS program (732-235-4444) and psychosis services (732-235-8400) have their own lines.
Cost: UBHC's outpatient page does not list the insurance plans it accepts, so ask the Access Center about your plan. UBHC lists its Edison, Monmouth Junction, and New Brunswick sites as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic; under federal criteria, a CCBHC may not refuse care because you cannot pay and must have a sliding fee schedule.
Rutgers UBHC does not publish street addresses for its outpatient offices, so call the access line for the location nearest you.
Visit website →Low-cost and sliding scale
If cost is the obstacle, start here. These options set fees by income or serve patients regardless of ability to pay.
Rutgers Center for Psychological Services (GSAPP)
The university psychology training clinic on the Busch campus, and the strongest low-cost option in the county.
152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ
Individual, group, and family therapy plus psychological and learning-disability assessment. Specialty tracks include ADHD, anxiety, trauma-focused care, and dialectical behavior therapy. Care is delivered by doctoral students in clinical and school psychology under licensed supervision.
Cost: Some GSAPP clinics offer low-cost services based on household income and ability to pay. Ask when you call.
Rutgers refers to this clinic under a few different names. Same clinic, same address.
Visit website →Eric B. Chandler Health Center
A federally qualified health center in New Brunswick, run with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
277 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ (plus sites on Church Street and Somerset Street)
Family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, dentistry, social services, nutrition, and health education.
Cost: Accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and private plans, with a sliding fee scale set by federal poverty guidelines.
The center's published service list does not mention behavioral health. Ask when you call whether mental health care is available before counting on it.
Visit website →Hospital and outpatient programs
Structured programs for when weekly therapy is not enough — intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, and psychiatry.
Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center — Center for Behavioral Health
Hospital-system outpatient behavioral health and addiction care in Edison.
65 James Street, Edison, NJ
Outpatient therapy, psychiatric evaluation, and medication management for adults and teens, plus an adult addiction intensive outpatient program, medication-assisted treatment, and family support groups. Open Monday to Thursday until 8pm, Friday until 4pm.
Visit website →RWJBarnabas Health Behavioral Health Access Center
A 24-hour consultation line for finding care inside the RWJBarnabas system.
Round-the-clock help identifying outpatient behavioral health care for children, adolescents, and adults across the system.
RWJBarnabas runs its mood and anxiety intensive outpatient program in Middlesex County through Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in Edison and Piscataway. The 24-hour Access Center routes you to the right site.
Visit website →Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health — North Brunswick
A Princeton House outpatient site in Middlesex County.
Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programming. Princeton House runs distinct tracks for adults with mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, women, older adults, young adults, and children and teens.
Princeton House's North Brunswick page lists the tracks that run there, including tween, adolescent, young adult, older adult, women's, men's trauma, co-occurring and Gateway programs. Confirm on the central line before you travel.
Visit website →Peer and family support
Free groups for people living with mental illness and for the family members supporting them.
NAMI Middlesex County
The local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Free peer support groups, family support groups, education classes, and advocacy.
Cost: Free.
If the affiliate is hard to reach, NAMI New Jersey (toll-free 866-626-4664, weekdays 9am to 4pm) and the national NAMI HelpLine (800-950-6264) can point you to the nearest groups.
Visit website →County government
The county office does not treat anyone directly, but it can explain what county-funded services exist.
Middlesex County Office of Human Services
County planning and referral office for addictions and mental health.
75 Bayard Street, New Brunswick, NJ
Information and referral on county mental health services, plus planning and advocacy. Not a treatment provider.
Cost: Free.
Visit website →Town guides in Middlesex County
Each guide covers the crisis numbers, clinics, and school and college help closest to one town.
How this page was verified
Phone numbers and addresses here come from the organization's own website or from a government source, never from a third-party directory. Where an organization routes intake through one access line, we publish that line instead of a clinic address. Read our editorial policy.
- Psychiatric Emergency Screening Services — Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care
- Emergency Services and Screening — PerformCare New Jersey
- Designated Screening Services in New Jersey (updated October 8, 2026) — NJ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services
- Hotlines and Helplines — NJ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services
- Adult Outpatient Services — Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care
- Center for Psychological Services — Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
- Eric B. Chandler Health Center — Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Center for Behavioral Health at JFK University Medical Center — Hackensack Meridian Health
- NAMI affiliates in New Jersey — NAMI New Jersey
Programs change. Clinics close, numbers get reassigned, and county designations move. Call ahead before you travel, and tell us through the contact form if something here is wrong — corrections to phone numbers and program details get priority.