For over 30 years, the Federal Association Association of Families of the Mentally Ill People (BApK e.V.) stands for a committed self-help, which consistently represents both the concerns of patients and the interests of relatives. As a family self-help psychiatry it works - together with his over 8,500 members from 15 national associations - for a continuous improvement of the situation of mentally ill people and their families on all political and social levels.