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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS of SAN DIEGO CENTRAL OFFICE
The San Diego A.A. Coordinator" is a monthly newsletter published by the San Diego Central Office of Alcoholics Anonymous. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole, nor does publication of any article imply endorsement by Alcoholics Anonymous or San Diego Central Office, except when Conference approved publications are quoted.
Contributions from A.A. members are welcome and will be printed as space allows. Submissions must be typed or neatly handwritten with contact numbers and signed (your name and last initials only, or "Anonymous" when requested with signature, will be published). The editors reserve the right to edit contents for length, clarity and their relation to the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. An effort will be made to contact the author regarding content changes.
The Newsletter Committee would like to thank everyone for their wonderful support.
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CENTRAL OFFICE NEWS
Ø Bilingual Speaking 12 Step requests. If you speak a language other than English, we would like to create a "Bilingual 12 Step List" here at Central Office. Please call Central Office at 619-265-8762.
Ø
FREE
tours of the new San Diego Area Archive’s Room at Central Office.
It is a joint effort between San Diego & North County Intergroups ,
along with San Diego/Imperial Area Assembly.
The room is open Monday-Saturday 9 am – 5 pm.
Ø Our Central Office phone lines are answered 24/7 by recovering alcoholics. There are opportunities to serve as daytime volunteers or as a group answering the nighttime phones.
Ø When someone calls the Central Office and needs to speak to someone about their problems with alcohol, we then call an AA member on our 12 step lists. You can sign up to be on a daytime or nighttime call list. Also, available is communicating with someone via email.
Ø
Call
Central Office and register as Secretary of your Group and we will mail you the
monthly Coordinator Newsletter and Our “NEW” Secretary Handbook for
your group or better yet, come visit us at central office.
Committee
News and Announcements
This
month, the focus is on service opportunities.
There are lots of opportunities for Third Legacy work in San Diego AA.
We invite you to look over the possibilities, then pick up the phone and
get into action!
Central Office.
Needs individuals to fill in for scheduled phone volunteers when those
volunteers are unavailable (travel, sick) to man shifts for June, July and
August. Yours might be the first AA
voice heard by a still suffering alcoholic.
Please call Central Office at 619-265-8762.
After Hours Phones Committee.
Needs groups to volunteer as a stand by or to be on the waiting list to
answer phones one night per month during the evening hours.
Please call Central Office at 619-265-8762.
Outreach Committee.
Each group may have an elected coordinator represent their group at
Coordinating Council. The council makes decisions affecting all of AA in San
Diego, and these decisions are based on the collective group conscience of
individual groups. If your group is
not represented, your group’s voice is not heard.
The coordinator is a service position.
The Outreach Committee invites you to visit a Coordinating Council
meeting at 7:30 PM on the second Thursday of each month at 2728 6th
Avenue. Please call Central
Office at 619-265-8762. for more information on how YOUR group can send a
coordinator to council.
Program
Committee.
This committee needs a committee member, man or woman, willing to work on
annual event planning. The Program Committee is responsible for the Founder’s Day
picnic, Anniversary Breakfast, and
the New Year’s Eve dance. If you
want to be part of this dynamic, high energy committee, please call Central
Office at 619-265-8762 to find out how. There
is a requirement for one year of sobriety.
Also, this summer’s picnic will need volunteers, such as parking
attendants willing to work 15 minute shifts.
If you or your group is willing to help, please call Les.
Public Info Committee.
Ever wonder who mans those booths at health fairs and speaks to high
schools students about AA? The
Public Information Committee does. They
are invited to speak at health fairs, colleges, and high schools.
The committee offers many service opportunities to AA volunteers.
Some typical, upcoming events are the Recovery Walk in Balboa Park and an
HMO Health
Fair in Mission Valley. This
committee tries to select age appropriate speakers for each venue.
If you are interested in finding out more, or interested in speaking
about AA in non-AA locations, please Central Office at 619-265-8762.
Also, needed is a woman committee member.
Please raise your hand for this opportunity.
Newsletter Committee.
Needs AAers to write articles on monthly sobriety themes for the AA
Coordinator Newsletter. Upcoming
themes are printed on the front page of each
newsletter. Also needed are
individuals or groups to help with fold and label “parties” at 6 PM on the
Wednesday following the second Thursday of each month.
The location is the Central Office.
This is a wonderful fellowship opportunity.
Central Office at 619-265-8762.
H&I Chair:
This Area 8 committee needs LOTS of volunteers!!
LOTS!! Each month, more than
400 panels go into treatment or corrections facilities and bring a meeting to
those who are unable to get out to one. Orientation
is at 12:15 PM on the 3rd Sunday of each month at 5150 Kearny Mesa Road, or at
7PM on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Central Office.
Groups can volunteer too!! Groups
can adopt a panel, and man that panel with home group members.
This is a wonderful service opportunity for each individual person as
well as for group unity. Still more
volunteers are needed for Contact on Release programs for local jails and
treatment facilities. Contact on
Release picks up where H&I leaves off by getting newly released inmates and
treatment facility patients to AA meetings within 24 hours of release.
H&I has a great need for volunteers because these panels cover all of
San Diego and Imperial County. Central
Office at 619-265-8762.