The District 5 Treatment Committee is in urgent need of your help. Please take this to your groups, discuss it, bring it up at your business meeting, and spread the word to others. You can contact Tim C. with any further questions. His contact information is below. Thank you for considering this opportunity to be of service.
REQUEST THAT YOUR HOMEGROUP CONSIDER “SPONSORING” A SATURDAY SPEAKER PANEL/ DISCUSSION MEETING AT ST CHARLES BEND ON A RECURRING BASIS
Basic Facts:
- St Charles Bend has no official detox unit
- Currently ~50% of beds on the Hospital’s 4th floor are occupied by alcohol & drug patients
- AA had no presence in St Charles facilities for over 25-years
- An AA committee (CTF) has facilitated a weekly panel at St Charles since Oct 2018
- This panel runs from 1:30-2:45pm every Saturday
- It presently appears on the COIGAA meeting schedule as “CTF Saturday Speakers”
- It is open to all and affords a scheduled “meeting” at a time when there are no others
- WE ARE ASKING YOUR GROUP TO HELP TO MAINTAIN THIS AA COMMITMENT
How You Can Help:
- Have your homegroup “sponsor” 1x Saturday every other month
- This translates to only 6x Saturdays per year for a 1-year commitment
- No solid commitment is needed up front! We can simply try it out!
What Is Involved:
- Have 1x homegroup member, sober in AA, act as a Coordinator/ Facilitator
- The Coordinator/ Facilitator would coordinate 2-3x speakers to share their experience with the AA Program of Recovery for ~15-minutes at the speaker panel/ discussion meeting
- The Coordinator/ Facilitator would also announce the upcoming speaker panel/ discussion meeting at your homegroup, as well as other meetings they attend
- The Coordinator/ Facilitator would run the speaker panel/ discussion meeting, much like a meeting secretary
How the CTF Committee Will Support Your Group:
- Maintain the cooperative relationship with St Charles Hospital, the host facility
- Provide AA literature packets and Big Books for distribution at the speaker panel/ discussion meeting
- Provide, and/ or cooperate with your group to develop a Format for the speaker panel/ discussion meeting
- Help connect your group to other AAs in District and Area also committed to carrying the AA message into treatment/ medical facilities
- Ensure the scheduled speaker panel/ discussion meeting happens
Thank you for considering this service request! Please let me know how I can help connect you and your group to still suffering alcoholics
Tim C, for District 5 CTF, 541-610-4431, d5aa.ctf@gmail.com
Basic Information re: CTF Committee & Speaker Panels