With this very special issue of Outword, and we have worked hard to pull together a Resource Guide for the Sacramento community. This guide goes beyond whether you are L, B, G, T, Q etc., and our purpose for this issue is to try to help you, the reader, because you are human, to be safe and informed and even provide opportunities that allow you to help our town as we face these trying times. (We can squabble about other things later)

Obviously, you know we could never include everything there is to know and do, so, if you are a service provider, or have information you would like to share, please contact us. If you are in need of some the help listed here, please call and get some – everyone needs a helping hand at one, or two, times in your life.

As a very wise woman said on Facebook, “I would rather over-react and be fine, than to not take this seriously and not be around to say, Yeah, I freaked out..!”

This issue of Outword will be available exclusively online, in our two digital formats; as a downloadable PDF document, or through our ISSUU.com portal. We will continue to print a paper version of our publication once this crisis has become a thing of the past. Until then, please take a look at us online. It’s all free and there are even back issues available if you want to take a look at what you might have missed.

So, please stay safe! Let’s do what is being asked of us to quell this virus so we can come out the other end alive and more aware. We need every one of you in our community.