In this paper, we address the access of homeless people with severe mental disorder to public mental health care. To this end, we conducted a narrative review on the topic and concluded that Social Welfare services have frequent contact with that portion of the population, providing answers to their needs, such as housing and civil rights of redemption. Mental health services still have difficulty establishing strategies to care for people in mental distress in the street and enter them in CAPS and health units. Thus, the welfare network has often been the gateway of this population to mental health services, indicating that the intersectoral work needs to be further developed to ensure effective access to public health services.
social welfare; mental health; intersectoriality; homeless with mental disorder; access to health care