Outreach After Grants Pass

Protect people, their belongings and their health when camping enforcement and encampment resolutions change around you.

A self-paced field guide for street outreach workers, encampment-resolution and engagement staff, peer navigators and field-based housing navigators. Rich Los Angeles context. Skills that work wherever you practice. Not legal advice, not enforcement training and not software training.

What you'll be able to do

• Explain what City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (2024) decided and what it left in place, without giving legal advice.
• Help people keep what they need before, during and after a cleanup, and know where belongings go.
• Treat every forced move as a health event: plan what has to travel with the person, and how you'll find them again.
• Make offers that are voluntary and real, and record offers, declines and unmet requests honestly.
• Know who decides what, hand off on purpose, and call the right person when something is outside your role.

Included in the download

• 65-page field guide with five lessons. Each lesson has a layer-by-layer view (federal, California, LA County, other cities, and "check yours"), worked decisions, practice scenarios with model answers, self-checks with feedback, and numbered sources.
• Four printable one-page job aids: "Can they make me move?" answer card, Belongings before, during and after, Moves and health handoff, and Offers and declines record.
• A Check Yours worksheet (PDF and Word) for finding your local camping rules, notice and storage rules, legal aid, health partners and data-sharing policy.
• Start Here and a license for the tier you choose: one named person, a site team of up to 15 named users, or an agency of up to 50 named users.

Before you buy

• Sources: built on 52 legal, policy and research claims, each traced to its original source and read in full where noted. The sources include City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (2024), Lavan v. City of Los Angeles (9th Cir. 2012), Garcia v. City of Los Angeles (9th Cir. 2021), 24 CFR 576.101 and 576.500, HUD's 2004 HMIS privacy standards, California Executive Order N-1-24 and H&S Code §50242, LAMC 41.18 (2021 text), San Diego's and Seattle's encampment rules, and research on the health effects of displacement (including JAMA 2023). Rules were checked in October 2026.
• What it isn't: legal advice, enforcement training, clinical training, a certification, or a replacement for your agency's policies, counsel or required trainings. No agency endorsement is implied.
• Accessibility: the PDFs aren't certified PDF/UA accessible. The worksheet is also supplied in Word.

License options

• Individual Practitioner, $49: one named person.
• Program / Site Team, $199: up to 15 named users in one program at one address, or one established mobile or remote team.
• Agency / Multi-Site, $499: up to 50 named users across the programs and sites one organization runs directly (for a government buyer, one named department or bureau).

The license you choose is in LICENSE.txt in your download and governs use. Refunds follow the policy shown at checkout and applicable law.