The reflections here expressed have the purpose to subsidize discussions and directions to health services concerning the Psychiatric Reform. The ideas here presented are founded in the experience (2004 to 2005) lived by a psychologist, who had the initiative of creating a Family Center as part of a substitutive net of attention to the mental health in the municipal district of Maringá. Starting from this experience the pertinence of this type of activity is reaffirmed for the consolidation of the Psychiatric Reform in Brazil, as well as the impossibility of carry this task on without the partnership of its managers, health professionals in general and the users of such service.
Public Health; Mental Health; Psychiatric Reform; Health Education