To MSCA Area 09 Districts:

Treatment Facility Committee Request

A.A. seeks to “Bridge-The-Gap” to Treatment Facilities - The MSCA Treatment Facilities Committee (TFC) has committed them selves to reaching out to alcoholics by working with clients who are being discharged from treatment facilities helping welcome them to A.A. in their residential area. We are asking the fellowship in general, and districts more specifically to make a volunteer commitment as temporary contacts. Temporary Contact volunteers meet and introduce newly discharged TF client newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous: by taking the newcomer to a variety of A.A. meetings, introduce him or her to other AA’s, and encourages them to take down phone numbers of several other A.A. members to insure continued contact.

For example, districts have approached treatment facilities about giving presentations to the facilities clients (and staff if indicated) in their district to share with them What AA is and What AA is not, and offering to provide Temporary Contacts upon their discharge from treatment. The clients can fill out a request for a Temporary Contact volunteer to contact them (preferably but not necessarily before release). The Temporary Contact volunteer would be contacted by the TFC with the contact’s information. The requests can be made by the TF clients that have been informed of this service, those that haven’t been informed can’t.

MSCA’s Treatment Facilities Committee is continually updating its Temporary Contact Volunteer list. If you have volunteered in the past and your information has changed, please contact us so that we may have your updated information. If you are interested in this type of service work you can fill out the TC form at this link: Temporary Contact from the MSCA website and emailing or contacting the Treatment Facilities Committee by email (below), and/or attending the Committee meeting next Area ASC or Assembly when we meet between 10:15 and 11:30AM.

In summary the TFC is making two friendly requests of all districts in MSCA:

1. Each district find two or more AA members (a male and a female) who are willing to commit to be temporary contacts, and that they either get a Temporary Contact form and fill it out and email it or bring it to the monthly TFC meeting.

2. Each district make a list of Treatment Facilities in your District so that we may add it to the Treatment Facilities Database as recommended by the TF Workbook. This will help the Districts establish and acquaint themselves with these locations and the MSCA TFC to become familiar with Treatment Facilities in all District neighborhoods.

Please contact the TFC with requests or questions by calling or emailing the TFC:

E-Mail: tf@msca09aa.org