I am responsible.
When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help,
I want the hand of AA always to be there.
And for that: I am responsible...
--Responsiblity Declaration, AA Grapevine Inc.
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Unless otherwise specified Archives meets on the fourth Sunday of each month at 1 P.M.
AA Archives Mission: permanently documents the work of Alcoholics Anonymous, making the history of the organization accessible to AA members and other researchers, and provides a context for understanding AA's progression, principles, and traditions.
Unless otherwise specified PI/CPC meets on the first
Sunday of each month at 1 P.M.
If you've ever wondered where your place would be in the AA service structure you may want to look here. The crew over at PI/CPC are busy carrying the message to those who may be hearing it just a little bit....but not quite enough to get it. "They" go to DUI schools to give talks about AA, as well as schools, churches, where ever there is a need and we are asked to go. It's a great program. Come to a meeting and check it out!
If interested in the PI/CPC committee,
please email: picpc@gwinnettaa.org
PI/CPC Help Wanted flyer: click here
gwinnettaa website flyer: click here
Link to Box 459 for News & Notes from GSO: click here
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Treatment Facilities Committee
The next meeting will be on September 12th @ 2:00 P.M. at the Gwinnett Room.
(Unless otherwise specified Treatment meets on the first Sunday of each month at 2 P.M.)
For more information please e-mail: treatment@gwinnettaa.org
We have great news for A.A. service work with Treatment Facilities. In June of 2009, a new Treatment Facilities Committee Meeting commenced for both Districts 16C and 16D in Gwinnett County. Both districts meet at one place at one time for singleness of purpose, to carry the message of Alcoholics Anonymous. This meeting is also available to any other district in the Atlanta area that would like to participate. The committee will be working in conjunction with the PI/CPC Committee to facilitate contacting all the Treatment Facilities in our community. Once we have made contact and have been invited in to help carry the message, then together the two committees will carry the message by talks and holding A.A. metings at the facilities. Both Committees will also provide much needed literature to the treatment facilities.
This is an excellent way to reach out and a great opportunity for service work. Please help support this committee by participating or annoucing its role and meeting time in your home groups. We look forward to the opportunity to work with you in service.
Treatment Facilities committee representatives are carrying the message to Hindsight 20/20, every Monday at 7:30 p.m. If you are interested in attending this meeting with us, there is only room for a certain number of attendees, so please plan ahead and contact us at: treatment@gwinnettaa.org.
If you are a treatment facility, halfway house, or other facility in need of an A.A. meeting, please contact us at: treatment@gwinnettaa.org.
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Gwinnett AA Corrections Needs You!!
The Corrections Committees in Districts 16C and 16D are looking for volunteers to help in any aspect of corrections work including carrying meetings into facilities, bridging the gap, corrections correspondence and collecting contributions.
Pamphlet on Corrections Correspondence
click here
For more information on correspondence see below in the Bridge the Gap Program section.
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Would you like to carry the message into the Gwinnett County Detention Center?
Please mail in a completed Detention Center Volunteer Application Form, along with a photo copy of your drivers license to the following address:
Corrections
P.O. Box 70
Lawrenceville, Ga 30046
(Corrections will send in your application to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department.)
If you are interested in or have any questions about the above corrections' service opportunities, please e-mail: corrections@gwinnettaa.org
Please join us:
next Committee Meeting
September 12th @ 3:00 p.m.
Gwinnett Room
All are welcome and encouraged to attend the meeting.
There is no sober-time requirement on this service work.
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The next state training session for individuals
who would like to carry the message
into the prisons is:
September 25, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
in Macon, Georgia
Training is free.
for more information please e-mail:
service@gwinnettaa.org
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The 2nd Annual Corrections Workshop
Recovery's "Cellular" Service
Hosted by Districts 16C & 16D
was held on January 23, 2010
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Area 16 Bridge the Gap Program
for Corrections and Treatment Facilities
The Bridge the Gap Committee of Area 16 Correctional Facilities and Treatment Facilities Committee is made up of Alcoholics Anonymous members across the state that are dedicated to carrying the A.A. message to people who are seeking sobriety but are unable to participate at the community level. Specifically, Bridge the Gap provides a way for recovering alcoholics to make contacts with AA members in the area in which they will be living after their release from a correctional facilitiy or a treatment facility.
The most important time in an alcoholic's recovery is the first 24 to 48 hours after his or her release. Many of these alcoholics being released from facilities are simply looking for an A.A. on the outside that is willing to share their experience, strength and hope through correspondence or is willing to make them feel at home in their A.A. community.
If you would like to volunteer for Bridge the Gap or be a Correspondent to an inmate or alcoholic in a treatment facility, please click on the appropriate voluteer form below.
If you are an inmate in a correctional facility or an alcoholic in a treatment facility and have a fixed release date less than six months away, please click on the approriate request form below.
Bridge the Gap & Correspondence Volunteer Form (Corrections)
click here
Bridge the Gap & Correspondence Inmate Request Form (Corrections)
click here
Bridge the Gap & Correspondence Volunteer Form (Treatment Facility)
click here
Bridge the Gap & Correspondence Request Form (Treatment Facility)
click here
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Questions, comments, or
to publish service opportunities
e-mail:
webmaster@gwinnettaa.org