The Community Service Guides are ambassadors to downtown. They are trained on downtown history, points of interest, special events, and familiar with the many retailers operating in the district. Guides make getting around downtown a simple and enjoyable experience. Our Guides are equipped with maps, directories, city transit information, two way radios, and cell phones. They are at the visitors disposal to find routes to destinations, call a cab, or merely provide an escort to and from a vehicle.
Guides are a uniformed presence to prevent break-ins, graffiti, and discourage social disorder.
The Community Service Guides serve downtown seven days per week. They patrol the areas of Old Sacramento, the perimeter of Downtown Plaza, K Street Mall, Civic Center and around the Convention Center. If you're interested in becoming a Community Service Guide, please fill out our short online job application . The Community Service Guides work in partnership with Volunteers of America and other Social Services to reach out to those who are living and begging on the street. Not A Handout.