O programa Comunidade de Fala (CdF) nos seus cinco anos de implementação no Brasil

This article aims at presenting the Comunidade de Fala program in its implementation process in Brazil since 2015, through personal accounts and descriptive and analytical reports by its main leaders in the country. First, it includes a section indicating its historical and conceptual basis in the international mental health users’ social movement, focusing particularly the concepts of empowerment and recovery, and their several dimensions and strategies. Next, Richard Weingarten, one of the user movement leaders in the United States, also very active in Brazil for more than two decades, and the program creator gives a personal report of its aims and process of implementation in Brazil, followed by reports from its local leaders in Santa Maria (RS), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Salvador (BA) e Sao Paulo (BA).