TREATMENT FACILITIES COMMITTEE
Area 10 Treatment Committee Meetings
Our Committee meets regularly every even month on the 3rd Sunday in Castle Rock at the Public Library (100 South Wilcox) at 3 pm; on odd months we do a conference call.
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TREATMENT WORKSHOP
Saturday January 30, 2010 the Area 10 Treatment Committee and District 14 wil host a DISTRICT 14 WORKSHOP entitled "Our Primary Purpose and Treatment Facilities" in Glenwood Springs, CO. For more information and a flyer, PLEASE CLICK HERE
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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.
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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".
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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 andmeetings.
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BRIDGE THE GAP
Bridge the Gap (BTG) is a program, typically handled by local service committees attached to Central/Service Offices around the state of Colorado, which attempt to connect a person just discharged from a facility with someone in the fellowship of AA in or near their hometown. This allows them to hit the ground running when they leave the facility.
Please send your 12-step and/or BTG sign up lists to treatmentbtg@coloradoaa.org --they in turn will distribute the master list to BTG Committees and Central/Service Offices around the state once a month.
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If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please contact
the:
The Area 10
Treatment Chair
* Links to meeting dates, literature, forms and
other information will be available when we reach Phase II of
our website development.
