This article tries to reflect about the role of the Child Protection Agency in society, starting from a curricular internship experience in Legal Psychology on the graduation course of Psychology in . The activities of the internship were: observation on the daily activities of the institution, legal psychological care of the population, discussion with advisors of the attended cases and coordination of a group with adolescents who were sent to a nearby school. This article intends to depict that the Child Protection Agency is an institution that denounces the conflicts underlying an excluding society; moreover, this work points out ways so that this organization could work as an apparatus for the promotion of health.
Child Protection Agency; public politics; promotion of health