[The outreach teams, first contact for screening and care]

Since its creation in 1993, the Samusocial de Paris has been working with homeless people in a "going towards" approach. Within this framework, professionals - social workers, nurses, interpreters-mediators, drivers-social workers - seek out and provoke encounters by going to the place where the person is: it can be the place where a homeless person lives, the day care center he or she attends, the shelter or the hotel room where he or she is staying. This exercise is based on specific expertise in multidisciplinary health mediation with the public in very precarious situations.