The HEIRS TO THE FUTURE PROJECT was the result of the need of turning people on the fringes of society into citizens not only through education but also by providing mental health care. Not many people know, but caring of the mental health is one of the key elements that contributes to human development, as it acts on all levels of an individual’s health and well-being. Mental health includes the environmental and the physical and psychological aspects of a person. The emotional maturity of a person is made up by important elements such as the strength of character and the capacity to deal with life’s conflicting and frustrating situations. Starting from this context, we are concerned over the social and emotional deprivations of life experienced by a wide swath of Brazilians. Such deprivations lead to a cycle of violence in the life of many adults and children, who will become generations hit by this factor in case they do not manage to reach such an emotional maturity. We believe that mental health care is strictly related with the reduction of violence and abandonment. A child may “apparently” relate and develop well physically, but only when as a teenager or adult is that certain conflicts that were not worked out in childhood may be really harmful.