Correctional Facilities Committee


Purpose

The purpose of the Correctional Facilities Committee is to cooperate with Intergroup Institution Committees; to coordinate, when requested, the work of individual AA members and groups who are interested in carrying our message of recovery to alcoholics behind the walls; and to set up means of “Bridging the Gap” from the facility to the larger AA community.

Basic functions of the committee are to:

  • Take regular AA meeting into facilities, when allowed to do so
  • Encourage “outside” group participation in this kind of Twelfth Step work
  • Provide a liaison between correctional facilities’ meetings and groups on the outside
  • Coordinate sponsorship by providing individual sponsorship, providing group sponsorship, and providing interim sponsors for inmates at the time of release
  • Arrange purchase and distribution of literature for these groups and meetings
  • Assist, when requested, with Intergroup nstitution Committee activities

Reprinted from Area 29 Area Handbook, P. 14.

Duties


The Chairperson of the Correctional Facilities Committee:
  • Is appointed by the Area Chairperson for a term of two years, beginning in January of the even-numbered years
  • Attends the Area Assembly and Area Committee meetings
  • Chairs monthly Correctional Facilities Committee meeting, coordinating information received from local Correctional Facilities representatives for reporting back to the Area Assembly
  • Coordinates annual Correctional Facilities panels for the State Convention and Fall Conference
  • Acts as a conduit for communication between GSO and the local Correctional Facilities Committees

For further information contact Area 29 Correctional Facilities Committee

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Corrections Facilities display at the 2008 Fall Conference in Ocean City, Maryland

 

  • Assists the local Correctional Facilities committees wherever and whenever possible
  • Prepares the annual Correctional Facilities Committee’s budget request to be submitted to the Finance Committee in October of each year and is prepared with supporting documentation to answer any questions which may be asked during the budget approval process in December
  • Represents Maryland General Service Area 29 at the following functions:
    • Area 29 State Convention
    • Area 29 Fall Conference
    • Northeast Regional Forum
    • Northeast Regional Alcoholics Anonymous Service Assembly

 

  • Arranges purchases and distribution of Correctional Facilities literature as may be required
  • As requested, attends group, Intergroup, District or other Area AA events to share information, knowledge and archives materials of the AA fellowship
  • Acts as a source of information for outside sponsors who hold meetings “inside the walls”
  • Maintains a list of contacts for pre-release and post-release inmates.
  • Meets with administrators of prisons and other institutions dealing with inmates/alcoholism to share information about Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Forms a working committee of AA members to assist in carrying out the performance of these responsibilities Reprinted from Area 29 Area Handbook, P. 36.
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