Homeless women:

a perspective of singular, territorial and intersectoral care

Abstract

Public policies aimed at the homeless population date back to 2008, however the exercise of these people's rights is marked by prejudiced and stigmatizing barriers. Homeless women, for example, have episodes of violence and neglect in their life stories as a reason for their arrival and staying on the streets; experiences that are reissued in the experience of illness, pregnancy and care in this context. The present article, resulting from a work presented to the Multiprofessional Residency Program in Mental Health at Unicamp, proposes to reflect on the care of the Street Clinic team with pregnant homeless women, from the report of case and the author's experience as a resident, occupational therapist and participant. As a contribution, we highlight the territorial, integral and equitable care practices, which aim at citizenship and the ways of producing life.