AA Conference Questions 2014 (contd)

 AA Conference 2014 Committee No. 1 Q 2

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“Learning from the US experience of Twelve Step Facilitation continued

Congressional Hearing: NATSAP - Jan Moss 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtQJ8MWINtM&playnext=1&list=PL92FE4010DF42541C&feature=results_main   Transcript:  “…We just know that there are thousands of cases of reported deaths and abuse. There is no central repository….” (03.43 mins into film)

Psyche Murder Final.avi (Straight Inc., Cincinnati newspaper articles) http://survivingstraightinc.com/home

Alberta Adolescent Recovery Center (AARC) (Canada)

CNC News, ‘Fifth Estate’ 2009, AARC-(Straight, Inc.) part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEcJna5-VSQ

Transcript: “For [S…..] as well, healing started only after AARC, and with professional help. In the program he was told without a life-time commitment to the Twelve Steps, he was headed for jail, and institution or death. Fourteen years later he works a steady job and is very much alive.” “I haven’t been to an AA meeting in over nine years. I’ve proven them wrong. I’ve gone and done something with my life. I’ve done a lot of good. I’m a good person.”  “But for some of them it is still a day to day struggle, to accept that they are not the life- long addicts AARC convinced them they would be. Today [B…] is a professional care giver and a mother who says she can handle the occasional drink just fine. What she can’t handle are the dreams she says, still haunt her twelve years later.” “I was damaged in there, emotionally my spirit was damaged, and, you know, that takes a long time to get over it. I don’t like even you know, talking about AARC. It’s fearful. They put the fear of God into you, and that’s not something anyone has to live with. And, yeah, that’s damaging, to me, that’s damaging.” (08.07 minutes into film)

Current AARC Website: ‘Stages of Treatment’ AARC affiliation with AA: “Each level focuses on specific issues related to healthy adolescent development and recovery. The level system co-relates directly with the recovery steps of Alcoholics Anonymous/ Narcotics Anonymous (AA/NA). As clients progress through the level system, they achieve increasing privileges and responsibilities. They are expected to present increasing self-awareness, self-esteem, family cooperation, motivation and commitment to recovery. By the time the client graduates to the Advanced Recovery, he/she should have achieved an emotional acceptance, understanding and knowledge of the first nine steps of AA/NA and be actively working the remaining steps into his/her recovery program. By the time the client graduates from Advanced Recovery into Aftercare, he/she should have a firm foundation in AA/NA participation, involvement, understanding and commitment, thereby promoting a significantly higher chance of attaining and maintaining successful recovery.” (Extract, AARC Alberta Adolescent Recovery Center Website Stages of Treatment; link: “read more”) http://www.aarc.ab.ca/about-aarc/aarc-program/stages-of-treatment”

Note: Conference Questions  can be downloaded in pdf from the GSO (GB) website. They are on pages  5-11, AA Service News, Issue 157, Winter 2013 http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/download/1/Library/Documents/AA%20Service%20News/157%20Winter%202013.pdf

Conference 2014 background material can be found on the GSO (GB) website. Follow the “Background Material for Conference 2014” link in the Document Library.  http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/Members/Document-Library

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)

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