The start of FAF

FAF was founded at 31st of January 1985.

FAF was founded by top managers from big national organisations (In the field of rehabilitation and activities for people with mental health problems)

• Deutschen Gesellschaft fur soziale Psychiatrie
  (German society for social psychiatry)
• Aktion Psychisch Kranke
  (Association for people with mental health problems)
• Dachverband psychosozialer Hilfsvereinigungen
  (umbrella-organisation of of psychosocial organisations in Germany)
• Deutsche Bewahrungshilfe (heute DBV e. V.)
  (Parent Organisation to re-integrate ex-prisoners)

FAF received about 200.000? in the five years period between 1987 and 1992 from the Freudenberg Foundation.