TREATMENT FACILITIES COMMITTEE

Area 10 Treatment Committee Meetings
We usually meet the fourth Sunday of the month at 6:30pm-8:30pm at the Denver Central Office conference room with the exception of months of Area Assemblies and when workshops are planned.

• February 24, 2008 at the Denver Central Office Conference Room, 1 st floor, 6:30-8:30 pm, POTLUCK. 2785 N Speer Blvd, Denver Colorado

• March 29, 2008 at the Spring 2008 Area Assembly, hosted by District 18. Fort Lewis College, College Union Building, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, Colorado 81301. The meeting will be held during the lunch hour on Saturday. All are welcome and encouraged to attend!

• April 27, 2008 at the Denver Central Office Conference Room, 1 st floor, 6:30-8:30 pm, POTLUCK. 2785 N Speer Blvd, Denver Colorado 80211. Traditions and how they apply to treatmetn faciity work.
• May 18, 2008 at the Denver Central Office Conference Room, 1 st floor, 6:30-8:30 pm, POTLUCK. 2785 N Speer Blvd, Denver Colorado 80211. (This is the third Sunday of the month – due to a holiday.) How to work with other committees with regard to treatment facility work.

PURPOSE
Treatment facilities committees are formed to coordinate the work of individual A.A. members and groups who are interested in carrying our message of recovery to alcoholics in treatment facilities, and to set up a means of “bridging the gap” from the facility to an A.A. group in the individual’s community.

HISTORY
Since A.A.’s co-founders first stayed sober by carrying the A.A. message into hospitals, many other alcoholics have discovered the great value to their own sobriety of working with suffering alcoholics in treatment facilities. In 1934, Bill W. kept trying to help drunks in Towns Hospital in New York City. None of them seemed interested at that time, but Bill stayed sober. Dr. Bob worked with thousands of alcoholics at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio. In 1939, Rockland State Hospital, a New York mental institution, was the site of one of our first A.A. hospital groups. Today many A.A. meetings take place in treatment facilities all over the world. Twelfth Stepping and sponsoring other alcoholics (where they area) has long been one of the most important and satisfying ways of keeping ourselves sober. Services to treatment facilities used to be combined with corrections facilities under the title Institutions Committee. In 1977 the General Service Conference voted to dissolve its Institutions Committee and form two new committees, one on correctional facilities and one on treatment facilities. For more information on A.A.’s work in hospitals and treatment centers, see "A.A. Comes of Age".

BASIC FUNCTIONS OF THE TREATMENT COMMITTEE

• With approval of the facility administration, takes A.A. meetings into facilities within Area 10
• Encourages group participation. Each District should have a representative on the T.F. committee.
• Coordinates temporary contact programs. (Bridging the Gap)
• Arranges purchase and distribution of literature for these groups and meetings.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please contact the:
The Area 10 Treatment Chair

 

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