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SCWS Website—scws-al-anon.org Southern California World Service Area Bulletin—Feb. 20, 2016

Vol. 58, No 1—2016 California

2016 - 55th World Service Conference

“Realizing Our Spiritual Potentials”

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Index ................................................................................................................................................................ 2

Agenda May 21, 2016 Assembly ..................................................................................................................... 3

Calendar of SCWS Meetings and Events ......................................................................................................... 4

AMIAS Training and Workshops ...................................................................................................................... 5

“Who Has Voice and Vote” ............................................................................................................................. 5

Minutes of Area Committee Meeting—Saturday February 20, 2016 ............................................................. 6-7

Officer Reports

Chair .......................................................................................................................................................... 12

Delegate .................................................................................................................................................... 7-12

Alternate Delegate .................................................................................................................................... 12

Immediate Past Delegate & SWRDM Report ............................................................................................ 12-14

Secretary ................................................................................................................................................... 14

Treasurer ................................................................................................................................................... 14

Ask-It Basket Q & A’s ....................................................................................................................................... 14-15

Coordinator Reports ........................................................................................................................................ 15-20

District Rep. Reports........................................................................................................................................ 20-28

Convention Reports ......................................................................................................................................... 28-29

Intergroup/AIS Reports ................................................................................................................................... 29

Al-Anon/Alateen Acronyms……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….29

The Forum Magazine………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...30

Financial Reports

SCWS Financials—January through March, 2016 ..................................................................................... 31-35

Group Contributions—January through March, 2016 .............................................................................. 36-47

SCAC Financials—January through March, 2016 ...................................................................................... 48-51

So Cal. World Service Directory

Past Delegates and Officers ...................................................................................................................... 52

Coordinators/Intergroup Liaisons/Convention Chairs .............................................................................. 53

District Representatives ............................................................................................................................ 54

SCWS Email Addresses and SCWS Mailing Address .................................................................................. 54

Information Service Centers ..................................................................................................................... 55

Sample Forms-Group Change Form (GR-1) ; Group Contribution and Bulletin Subscription Forms .............. 56-57

(Please use forms from SCWS Website scws-al-anon.org)

Map to Glendale First United Methodist Church, Carlson Hall ....................................................................... 58

Southern California World Service

Volume 58 Number 1 February 2016 Committee Meeting Including Financial Reports

AL-ANON & ALATEEN

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Tentative Agenda

Southern California World Service Assembly Saturday, May 21, 2016

New GR Orientation 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM Morning Session-9:00 AM to Noon

Serenity Prayer Traditions read by ___________ Recognition of New GRs and Past Delegates Chairman’s Welcome and Report-CB. S. Roll Call-Donna E., Group Records Coordinator Officer Reports Past Delegate – Jayme C. Secretary – Sandy P. (Minutes Approval) . Treasurer’s Report/Budget Approval Alternate Delegate – Vote in pm Old Business Group Registration – Donna E., Group Records Coordinator Electronic Voting – Jayme C., Past Delegate Delegate’s World Service Report Part 1 Elizabeth K.

Lunch-Served by Alateens Noon to 1:00 PM (DR & DAL Mgt. with Alateen Coordinators)

Afternoon Session- 1:00 pm to 4:00 PM Serenity Prayer Concepts read by ________________ Roll Call Vote - Alternate Delegate (Service Manual p. 152-154) - Electronic Voting Delegate’s World Service Conference Report Part 2 Elizabeth K. Coordinator Reports (a resource to groups and districts, Service Manual p. 65) Alateen Sponsor Coordinator-Cathleen C. Bulletin Coordinator-Jim B. Alateen Process Person-Tarisa R. CPC Coordinator-Melva C. Alateen Coordinator Institutions Coordinator-Billy M. Archives Coordinator-Dan P. Public Information Coordinator-Rose S. Literature Coordinator-Kathy G. Hospitality Coordinator- Judy P. Web Site Coordinator-Irene C. Al-Anon Information Service Liaison Reports (AISL, Service Manual p. 65) Inland Empire Orange County Intergrupal Hispania: (L.A. County) San Diego County Los Angeles County Ventura County Convention Reports AFG So Cal SCAC

Close with Al-Anon Declaration

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Southern California Area World Service (SCWS) Events

All Meetings are held at Glendale First United Methodist Church, 134 N. Kenwood, Glendale , CA 91206

Parking is available at three locations:

1) The church parking lot, 2) The lot off of Wilson and Kenwood and

3) The Glendale Unified School District lot across the street.

Do not park on Kenwood Street as there is only a 2 hour limit!

Area Committee Meeting Calendar (3rd Saturdays of February and August) Meetings—9am to 4pm (1 hour lunch) - New DR Orientation—8am to 8:45am

August 20, 2016 February 18, 2017 & August 19, 2017

Area Assembly Meeting Calendar (3rd Saturdays of May and November) Meetings—9am to 4pm (1 hour lunch) - New GR Orientation—8am to 8:45am

May 21, 2016 & November 19, 2016 May 20, 2017 & November 18, 2017

Sharing of Service (3rd Saturday of January)

January 21, 2017 January 20, 2018

Southwest Region Delegates Meeting (aka SWRDM) (2nd complete Weekend in March) (Delegates and Past Delegates have a voice & vote;

Area Chairs and Alternate Delegates have voice but not vote) March 11-13, 2016—La Jolla, California March 10-12, 2017—To be determined

Please go to the SCWS Website for the Complete “Calendar of Events—Southern California World Service ” You will find many more events and electronic fliers and forms for downloading and printing.

FLYERS AND REGISTRATION FORMS- Districts, Intergroups and Conventions who are participants in the South-

ern California Area Assembly may bring and distribute their forms in the meeting hall. All other Conventions

and /or events, without limited attendance, may only place their flyers, registration forms, etc., in the lobby of

the meeting hall.

ELECTRONIC BULLETIN AND BULLETIN SUBSCRIPTIONS: The Southern California World Service (SCWS) BULLE-

TIN is published electronically online four times annually and is available to any member of Al-Anon Family

Groups at the SCWS website. To obtain a mailed copy of the SCWS BULLETIN for $15.00 annually, please com-

plete a “Subscription Form”(found at the back of the Bulletin), submit a check payable to “SCWS” and mail both

to Area Treasurer, 10073 Valley View Street #260, Cypress, CA 90630.

Calendar of Events 2016-2018

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COMMITTEE MEETINGS VOICE VOTE

District Representatives

Officers

Coordinators

Past Delegates

Intergroup Liaisons

AWSC Convention Chairs (Conventions: AFG, SoCal AA & SCAC)

(Revised 2/1/2016)

ASSEMBLY MEETINGS VOICE VOTE

Group Representatives


Officers Coordinators Past Delegates Intergroup Liaisons AWSC Convention Chairs (Conventions: AFG, SoCal AA & SCAC)

Who has a Voice and/or Vote at Assemblies & Committee Meetings

90 Minute AMIAS Certificate Training for NEW Applicants—email registration to [email protected]

AMIAS Re-Certification Training —email “Contact” for Reservation & Location

Are you willing & able to be an AMIAS? Go to the SCWS Website “Alateen Sponsorship” for eligibility & more information.

Date & Time District Contact Contact Email

Mar 5 12pm – 4pm OCIG Brandi S.. [email protected]

Mar 5 12pm – 4pm OCIG Spanish [email protected]

Mar 26 10am – 2pm 12 Jerry (Bear) [email protected]

Apr 9 10am – 2pm 03 Pam B. [email protected]

Apr 16 10am – 2pm 69 Marilbel P. [email protected]

Apr 23 10am – 2pm 30 Anita M. [email protected]

Apr 30 12pm – 4pm 36/39 Becky C. [email protected]

Access Date Time Notes

Face-to-Face Sat, Apr 2, 2016 Check Schedule AFG Convention

Internet Online Sun, Apr 10, 2016 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm English

Internet Online Wed, May 11, 2016 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm English

Internet Online Sun, Jun 12, 2016 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm English

Internet Online Wed, Jul 13, 2016 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm English

Internet Online Sun, Aug 14, 2016 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm English

Internet Online Wed, Sep14, 2016 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm English

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Minutes Of Committee Meeting

2015-2017 SCWS Committee Meeting, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm

Sat., Feb. 20, 2016, 134 N. Kenwood St., Glendale

8:00 am – DR Orientation – Dining Rooms

9:06 am Serenity Prayer, Welcome to new GRs

Concepts read by Pete B.

Past Delegates present: Willie W., Panel 37; Sandie E. Panel 49; Jayme C. Panel 52

Roll Call Donna E. - Group Records Coordinator - Absent: D6, D12, D30, D72; Alateen Coordinator; Area Alateen Process Person; Archive Coordinator; CPC Coordinator; Inland Empire Coordinator; OC Liaison; Ventura County Intergroup Liaison; SCAC Chair

Chair’s Report - CB Schultz

Minutes Secretary – Sandy P. – Motion to approve minutes made by Tommie Rae DR8; seconded Kathleen G.- motion approved

Alternate Delegate’s Report - Pete B.

Immediate Past Delegate Report – Jayme C. – historical background about how the Alateen Certification and Event Plan evolved. Open for discussion. Discussion highlights:

1. Comment about not responding to minority opinion emails being intentional, so as to not encourage more emails;

2. Importance of transparency and open dialogue stressed;

3. Suggestion that someone be available to assist in completing Event Plan Application for conventions;

4. Comment that we may have to have an Area Event Plan Coordinator position in the future;

5. Further discussion about why the Area Event Plan was revised and how important it is that it be re-ceived by the approval date in order for the Alateens to be able to attend events and/or conventions; and

6. Comment about change being difficult.

Treasurer Report – Eva B. – Review of 2015 Year-End Financials – note a decrease in expenses. Ana, D. 42, made motion to approve financials seconded by Andrea, D69 – motion to approve financials passed.

Review of Balance Sheets - Cathy S. - A few observations made by her review were to be aware of 60 days to sub-mit responses after incurring an expense; thereafter it becomes income; cannot bring a prior year expense into the next year; reminder that lack of planning does not constitute an emergency.

Jayme C. – Clickers - will be doing a written presenta-tion that will be sent to DRs to be forwarded to GRs (through Website Coordinator ) before the May as-sembly presentation. Please be sure that your GRs get this information. (Questions, answers, and clarifi-cations about clickers.) Proposal that we rent clickers for May assembly as we have a $2,000 limit for discre-tionary purchases without requiring Assembly approv-al.

Delegate – Elizabeth [Borrowed 5 year old clickers for presentation but forgot receiver. It was noted that the clicker LCD light batteries are holding up nicely after 5 years.] PowerPoint presentation. (Read Re-port.)

Seventh Tradition $130.00.

Break for lunch 12:05 p.m.

Resume at 1:05 pm

Traditions read by Corinna, D60

Highlights of Coordinator Reports (Read Reports.)

Hospitality Coordinator - Judy P. –Following districts to bring goodies at the May Assembly: D3, D24, D42, D54, D57, D60, D64, D69. Needs more help with her commitment as she won’t be able to make the May Assembly. D42 will host the May Assembly in Judy’s absence.

Institutions Report – Billy M. 35th Annual H&I Confer-ence on April 8, 9 & 10. “Gateway to Service.”

Group Records Coordinator – Donna E.– Check fold-ers in plastic boxes for flyers and leave manila enve-lopes. Questions and comments.

Alateen Sponsor Coordinator – Cathleen C. Discus-sion and Comments. Use DALs for assistance. Com-ment about barriers and resistance to change in Event Plan being minimized by starting the conversation with small changes. Comment about culture changes. Reminder that we are having growing pains during the Event Plan transition.

CB ask for Agenda items at May Assembly. Discus-sion about letting DRs know what will be discussed at the May Assembly so they can let their GRs know. Alateen? Comment about listing items during the Committee Meeting to be discussed at the Assembly.

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Discussion about why Alateen Coordinator and SCAC Chair did not attend the committee meeting. Proposed Agenda Items at the Assembly: Alateens; Election of Alt. Delegate; Clickers; Coordinator Reports; Delegate’s Re-port

Suggestions from DRs:

1. Jayme give an update of Task Forces at the Assembly;

2. Reports be timed but all reports heard at the Assem-bly; and

3. More workshops (Hot Topics) at the Assembly;

Jayme inquired if the AWSC wants to rent clickers for the May Assembly. There was a comment that the Board should discuss renting clickers for the May Assembly. Then there was a suggestion to take a straw poll about whether DRs want to rent clickers for the May Assembly. Straw vote showed more committee members in favor of not renting clickers for the May Assembly. A past dele-gate made the comment that there were more GRs at the Nov 2015 Assembly in favor of the purchase of the click-ers than in favor of rental.

Elizabeth - Delegate Report Continues at 2:40 p.m. (Read Report). Breakout session regarding characteristics of good leaders. Encourages everyone to read Concept 9, read the qualifications for Alternate Delegate. Area Dreams feedback.

Reports Continue (Read Reports)

Public Information Rose S.; Irene Website Coordinator; Kathy G. Literature Coordinator; AFG Convention Chair – John W.; SCAC Chair Angela (via text) - apologizes for not being here - SCAC June 24-26, 2016; SoCal AA Convention Chair Kathleen G.; San Diego Intergroup/AIS – Michelle; Eddie Diaz – LA Intergroup/AIS Liaison; Spanish Inter-group/AIS Lulu.

District Reports (Read Reports) - D69; D66; D63; D60; D57; D54; D27; D3; D33; D24; D30; D12; and D10,

Close with the Al-Anon Declaration at 4:15 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted, Sandy P. 2015-2017 SCWS Secretary

Officer

Reports

Delegate

Delegates are in the final stages of preparations for the 2016 World Service Conference (WSC) to be held in April at the Wyndham Oceanfront Hotel in Virginia Beach, close to the World Service Office. Beginning on the first business day in January (Jan 3 this year), the WSO emails files to the Delegates on a weekly basis so that we can be prepared for efficient discussions and decision making at the WSC, affecting Al-Anon as a whole and for the good of Al-Anon as a whole. Feed-back in the form of comments and questions are solic-ited from the Delegates, with deadlines for each file that we receive.

When we register at 3pm on the day before the Con-ference starts, we receive our Conference Notebook with fresh copies of all these files, as well as new files and answers to all the questions submitted ahead of time. Personally, I substitute their pristine copies with my own copies filled with my notes and questions. This is the first opportunity the Delegates have to see the questions submitted by the other Delegates, and to read the answers written by Trustees and WSO Staff members.

As you can see, we hit the ground running. Burning the midnight oil the night before the Conference officially starts truly is the only way to finish our preparations for the Conference since we receive new materials when we arrive. No time for socializing if you want to finish preparing. Even with all this prep work, we still come up with new questions to ask at the microphone on every topic. This is why there is a strict 2-minute, one-time-at-the-mic limit.

2016 Members Survey Jan 15 – Feb 26, through this coming Friday, on mem-bers website. It is the first thing you see on the homep-age. Participation in the Al-Anon survey by all members, regardless of length of membership in the program, level of involvement in service work, or any other fac-tor, is of the utmost importance, is considered service work, and is greatly valued.

Have the members of your Al-Anon meeting filled out the survey? Have you? Please do it tonight, and please encourage others, certainly by Friday’s deadline, Feb 26.

Service Manual Updates Print the following pages from the members website and tape them into your Service Manual. They will be

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printed in the next SM, 2018-2021, and are in the online Service Manual. al-anon.org/members Click on Service Structure tab, then on Area Resources, then on Service Manual. Pages 82, 83, 126 (approved by 2014 WSC). Al-Anon Members Who Are Also Members of A.A., this is a Pol-icy clarification – not a new Policy.

Pages 198, 226 (approved by 2015 WSC) updates of Concept Eight descriptive text. The SCWS DRs gave their input one year ago. Thank you!

Updates of Concept Eleven descriptive text, begun at the 2015 World Service Conference, will be finalized at the 2016 WSC. The SCWS DRs also gave their input on this, one year ago. Thank you!

65th Anniversary of Al-Anon 1951 – 2016. We will celebrate the 65th anniversary of Al-Anon, the day after the WSC (World Service Confer-ence), on April 16, 2016 with an Open House at the WSO and a banquet. Any member can attend. The Open House is free of charge. The banquet is $55. See the order form on the home page of the members website. It is the second of the rotating announce-ments on that page. What does your district plan to do to celebrate? Your meeting? We will celebrate at the Jan 21, 2017 SOS.

2016 World Service Conference (WSC) April 11-15, 2016. Every Tradition and every Concept apply to the WSC. The WSC is an annual business meeting of Delegates (volunteers), Trustees (volunteers), Executive Committees (volunteers), and World Service Office Staff (paid workers). The WSC runs for five consecutive 12-hour days and it is where decisions are made that affect Al-Anon as a whole. The 2016 WSC is going to review the amendments proposed for the descriptive text for Concept Eleven, for the section on Memorial Contributions on page 95 of the Service Manual, for the section on Conventions and Events (what can and cannot be announced in meetings), suggestions proposed by the Literature Committee, the 2015 Annual Report, the 2016 budget, etc. The WSC also will hear presentations from the 2015-2016 Task Forces, each of which consists of Dele-gates, Trustees and WSO Staff members, and will dis-cuss Chosen Agenda Items which may be submitted by Delegates and WSO Staff and are selected by the Dele-gates.

If the GRs in your district would like to make small love gifts for the Delegate to share with the other Confer-ence members, that would be lovely. There are about

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105 people at the Conference. The hotel will hold the mail if it arrives within 3 days of the start of the WSC. If it is too soon, they won’t hold it. If it arrives late, they will return it, so please put the SCWS address in Cypress as the return address. The best day to mail it, to arrive on time, would be April 7. The hotel address was projected onto the screen for those present at the AWSC (Area World Service Committee meeting).

2016 WSC Summary The WSC Summary goes onto the members website in July al-anon.org/members click on Service Structure tab, then on District Resources or Area Resources, then on 2016 conference Summary Committee members will get a copy at the Aug AWSC.

2016 WSConference Theme Realizing Our Spiritual Potential

Feb 2016 COB Letter al-anon.org/members Click on WSO tab, then on Board of Trustees then click on the keyboard.

Please invite your group members to read the posted quarterly Chairman of the Board (COB) Letters. They are very informative and easy to understand!

The “COB Letter” has four sections: 1 Letter from the COB (Chairman of the Board of Trustees), 2 Policy Up-date, 3 Finance Update, and 4 Conference Leadership Team Update.

1. letter from COB. More about the role of the Trustees… The Trustees all are Al-Anon members, each serves only a short time, serving up to two 3-year terms as a volun-teer (unpaid). Each year one-third of the Board of Trus-tees finishes their 3-year terms and therefore each year a new one-third of the Trustees is elected by the Board of Trustees with traditional approval by the WSC. The COB Letter gives the list of nominees that will be presented to the 2016 WSC for traditional approval of the Regional Trustees, Trustees at Large, Board officers, and At-Large member of the ECRPM (Executive Committee for Real Property Management).

The goal of the Board Strategic Plan is:

The AFG, Inc., Board of Trustees will raise the fellow-ship’s awareness of the Trustees’ relationship to the Al-Anon groups and WSC, while articulating and express-ing the “why” of the Board’s work.

The Board’s Mission Statement is to “Anticipate the fu-ture and Al-Anon’s place in it and ensure that the neces-sary resources are available.” One of our important re-sources is the staff working on our behalf at the World

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“Financial matters” section on pages 95-99. Finally, an Open Policy Committee meeting will be held during Conference week so that we can hear Trustees discuss the topic of the designated terms “open” and “closed,” describing meetings.

The last paragraph of the Policy Update states that, “Members need to know that all topics discussed at the Policy Committee meetings are raised by either an Al-Anon member or a group seeking clarification of any matter relating to the fellowship. It is the Policy Committee’s responsibility to interpret these topics in light of Al-Anon’s Traditions, providing clarity and help to those who inquire about matters important to indi-viduals, groups, or Areas. Any member of Al-Anon/Alateen who has not received sufficient clarification through his or her links of service is encouraged to write to the World Service Office, requesting that the idea or question be sent to the Policy Committee for consideration.” In other words, topics are not initiated by the Policy Committee.

3. Finance Update. What spiritual principles in financial matters can you think of? Gratitude. Participation is the key to harmony. Trust in the Higher Power, PLUS do my footwork. 7th Tradition, fully self-supporting; one side of the coin: I give what I can; other side of the coin: tell me how it is because I cannot adjust if I don’t know how it is.

At the May 2015 Assembly, the GRs committed to talk-ing with their groups about increasing contributions to the WSO so that we could be fully self-supporting and avoid further transfers from the Reserve Fund. The groups in CA(S) did contribute more, $3800 more in 2015 than in 2014. The handout of group contributions by districts shows that (69.7% of) the groups in CA(S) contributed nearly $97,394 in 2015, averaging $124 per group, compared to $93,608 in 2014. Note that the free Forum to all groups costs $100,000. Each DR received today the listing of the 2015 contributions per group in their district. Where is your district on the list? Does your meeting budget a specific amount to contribute to our World Service Office annually to sup-port the $268 worth of services it provides to your meeting?

Literature sales took a dive in 2015. In the past few years, lit sales have decreased each year, so we had budgeted for $10,000 less in sales, but it turned out to be $237,000 less in 2015. What happened? Note that through 2014, 2/3 of the revenue to cover the expens-es comes from literature sales. We believe this trend in decreasing lit sales will continue and that we will need to rely more and more on contributions. Remem-

Service Office. We want to keep and attract talent, as well as to be known as an employer of choice. Therefore, the board is working on an “AFG Compensation Philosophy.”

AFG Connects is the new communication tool for service leaders in every Area. Most Coordinators, officers and all DRs have a community on AFG Connects, who are em-bracing the discussion threads, sharing concerns and ex-perience with others in the same community.

Al-Anon’s Sixth International Convention will be held in Baltimore, Maryland on July 6-8, 2018. Start saving now so that you will have the money set aside in your own personal ample reserve to attend.

To quote Paula B., 2014-2016 Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, from the last paragraph of the Feb 2016 COB Letter: “I know of and trust the dedication and commit-ment that your Board of Trustees brings to everything they do on behalf of Al-Anon Family Groups, Inc.” That is such an important statement. I can add to her quote by saying that every time one gets to serve at another level, one comes to understand and appreciate the work that is done at that level. “Them vs. Us” comes from a lack of trust in the Trusted Servants, …who all are Al-Anon mem-bers.

Interestingly, there is a related quote from Paula’s prede-cessor, Karen R., 2011-2013 Chairperson of the Board of Trustees (COB), on page 14 of the Jan 2010 Forum, in In-side Al-Anon, in an article titled, “Participation is the Key to Harmony.” Karen stated, “I stayed angry, accusatory and mistrustful. So much so that I faxed my resume to the WSO to apply for that one-year Southwest Regional Trus-tee position so as to prove my point, which was that the Board would not even consider me – because I was diffi-cult and had opinions contrary to their agenda.” Karen indeed became a Trustee at that time, and eventually the COB.

To read this article for yourself, go to the members web-site and type in the search box: Inside Al-Anon. Scroll down a bit and click on 2010.

2. Policy Update. The 2015 WSC requested language for allowing a memorial contribution for a deceased Al-Anon member, from a family member who is not a member of Al-Anon. This new language will be considered at the 2016 WSC. Secondly, pages 85-86 and 124 of the “Digest of Al-Anon and Alateen Policies” are being reworked by the Policy Committee. A member (from CA(S)) who was concerned that the text on “Announcing Events at Meetings” was not clear brought this to the Policy Com-mittee because some members have been working around the policy to suit their needs. Thirdly, the Policy Committee continues considering revisions to the

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—Inside Al-Anon, Dec 2011, p. 22 “What do I really val-ue?” by Penny R., Trustee, Past Treasurer

Go to WSO members website, type “inside Al-Anon” in the search box, scroll down a bit, click on 2010.

—Inside Al-Anon, Nov 2012, p. 25 “What does the Quarterly Appeal have to do with me?”

—WSC Summary 2015, p. 73 Thought Force: Im-portance of Abundance and Spirituality in Money Dis-cussions

4. CLT Update. See last page of complete COB letter.

The next Area Alternate Delegate We will elect the new Alternate Delegate at the May Special Election Assembly. There are responsibilities of the candidates and of the GRs (the voters). All need to read the job description, election procedures, (both on SCWS website), Concept 9 – qualities of a leader, what do we want/need in a leader?

Resumes of candidates (past DRs) are due by 9pm on Sat Mar 19, sent to both the Delegate and the Immedi-ate Past Delegate. KBDM: resumes will be posted on SCWS website, email notification will be sent to all As-sembly members, and each candidate will speak for 2 minutes at the microphone about why they would be an asset as an SCWS officer.

Thank you, everyone, for your kind attention to all the material in this report.

Respectfully Submitted,

Elizabeth K., Delegate CA(S), Panel 55, 2015-2017

ber, the only two sources of revenue for the WSO are member contributions and literature sales – per Tradi-tion 7, we are fully self-supporting.

As part of the Finance Committee’s duty to keep a watch-ful eye on expenditures, we must find places to cut ex-penditures while not affecting core services to the mem-bers. The suspension of the complimentary copy of The Forum to the groups is one such action taken in 2016, which costs $100,000. (Note that this is approx how much groups in CA(S) contributed in 2015.)

2016 WSO Budget See page 11 in this Bulletin for the 2016 WSO Budget.

1,649,337 actual contrib. in 2015 1,800,000 budgeted contrib. in 2016 Let’s keep up the momentum and have groups continue sending more to support the services our groups require.

2,822,801 actual lit sales minus printing in 2015 2,600,000 budgeted lit sales minus printing in 2016 We must be realistic about the decrease in lit sales con-tinuing, so less lit sales is in the budget for 2016.

51,415 actual investment income/tsfr from Reserve in 2015

223,000 budgeted inv. income/tsfr from Reserve in 2016 We did not receive enough revenue in 2015 from contri-butions and lit sales. We must be realistic about this and, for now, budget a large transfer from the Reserve for 2016.

4,873,000 budgeted estimated revenue 4,937,000 budged operating expenses = -$119,000 Yes, MINUS. This is 2% of $5 million Unbalanced budget.

The WSO is looking for ways to cut back on expenses with as minimal cut backs on services as possible.

If we look at budgets in recent years, we see that in the year 2000: expenses = -3,940,000 support = +4,089,000 That means it was $149,000 net income!

This $4,089,000 of support is worth $6,000,000 today when we factor in inflation, yet in 2015, the WSO re-ceived only $4,754,000 of support (literature sales + con-tributions).

If I only knew, I would adjust.

There are several articles related to financial considera-tions…

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2016 World Service Office Budget Sent to Delegates in January 2016

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Qualities of a good leader

AWSC (Area World Service Committee) members broke into small groups to discuss the qualities they see in good leaders. One member of each group took notes and shared the group’s ideas.

Group 1. Patient, organized, timely, committed, knowledge, collaborative

Group 2. Positive: clear, concise speaker; time manager; decision-maker; written communicator; conflict resolver; patient; willing’ fair; listener; takes on hard topics. Nega-tive: judgmental; secretive; closed-minded; dominant

Group 3. Positive: Visionary; able to take criticism; offers suggestions, doesn’t issue order; democratic in thought and action; able to listen; collaborative. Negative: take things personally; indecisive; defensive; egotistical.

Group 4: Positive: pause under pressure; visionary think-ing; being open, flexible, and adaptable; able to dele-gate; trusting; trustworthy; compassion; empathetic; keeping an attitude of service; information based; com-mitted; consideration of others. Negative: apathetic, im-patient, gossipy, self-centered, overly competitive.

Group 5: creates an atmosphere of participation; open to new ideas so participation is valued.

Group 6: Positive: punctual, trustworthy, believable, hard working, visionary, good listener, collaborator, good communicator, open minded, consensus builder, good time management skills, respectful of others, team player, big shoulder, energetic, enthusiastic, humble, self-assured, wiling to make decision, confident, dependa-ble, strategic thinker, balance, sense of humor, ability to admit when you are wrong. Negative: dominant, manip-ulative, arrogant, closed minded, lazy, poor time man-agement, lack of follow through, indecisive, controlling, myopic thinker, stubborn, inconsistent.

Group 7: Positive: communication, transparency, trusted servant, positive outlook, positive tone and body lan-guage, respect of others’ time, active listening, orga-nized, consistent, vision, humble, willing to admit mis-takes, Invites Higher Power. Negative: hidden agenda, omits details, negative outlook, dominance, talking down, disorganized, lack of consistency.

Alternate Delegate

The 2016 SOS has come and gone. People I have spoken with enjoyed the SOS. The panels were excellent, along with the food served for lunch. I would like to thank everyone who helped me coordinate the SOS. It was a

steep learning curve but with everyone’s help the SOS was a success. I would also like to say again how much we all enjoyed hearing from our speaker, Larcine G.

One last item, I would like to remind everyone that in May, at the Assembly, we will have a special election for Alternate Delegate. The deadline to submit a re-sume is March 19, 2016. I hope that all who qualify will give it some thought. If you feel this is not the right time for you, there may be someone else you could encourage to run. The resume form is found on the SCWS web site.

Thank you, Pete B.

Immediate Past Delegate

I am a grateful member of the world-wide fellowship of Al-Anon and Alateen. I have decided to use my re-port time for something other than what the Immedi-ate Past Delegate would usually report on.

I think it is time to talk about the elephant in the room. I have thought about this and prayed about it. I got on my knees this morning and I asked my Higher Power to guide my thoughts and words.

It is about Alateen and the relentless emails that are being sent to most of the District Reps, some of the SCWS Board and other “interested individuals”.

Let me take you back to 2003. Our Area was torn apart by the Board of Trustees motion that each Area must have safety and behavioral requirements for Alateen and Al-Anon Member Involved in Alateen Ser-vice (AMIAS) in place by December 31, 2004. Let there be no misconception about the AFG Board of Trustees (BOT) motion. The motion cannot be overturned by a vote of the Conference or an Area; it only can be changed by a new motion by the Trustees. The re-quirement of having all adults in the presence of Alateens (legal minors) to be certified is not going to change.

Anything that goes through the Board of Trustees comes from the Groups. The Trustees are our trusted servants.

We were not aware of the years prior to 2003 that it was being discussed at the WS Conference. Maybe we were informed, but maybe it was in the years where the Delegate read her report and perhaps some went to sleep! Perhaps none of us read our Conference Summaries either. It was brought back to the Area in 2004 with opinions and tears. Everyone was divided!

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There was no discussion regarding following the group conscience whether we like it or not, even when we don’t agree.

In October of 2004 a Special Assembly was held to dis-cuss and vote on the Board of Trustees motion which stated that each Area must have safety and behavioral requirements in place by December 2004. The Special Assembly was very contentious and heated. Eventually a vote was taken and the motion failed to pass! After the vote, some members acted as if the Special Assembly was over and left for the day. Then the question was raised concerning what would happen now? There con-tinued to be more discussion and the Special Assembly was reminded that if the Area did not have something in place by December 2004, our Alateen Groups would not be registered with WSO and therefore could not meet as Alateen. Another motion was drafted and seconded. The ballots were counted and the motion passed!

This didn’t end the controversy. The members who left early were upset and overall there was gossip, dissension and criticism of WSO and SCWS.

The Area has been trudging uphill ever since. There were many aspects of the Board’s decision that, unfortu-nately, were not followed – a couple of examples – (1) recertification workshops for AMIASs each year and (2) the requirement of event plans for all Alateen Events. As the Area tries to catch up, each time a new safety meas-ure is introduced by the Area that should have been in place since 2004, we are blasted with objections from a few individuals. What other organization that deals with minor children has such a push-back to legal require-ments? Al-Anon is not above the law, as stated in our Service Manual twice, pages 42 and 54. This is 2016 not 1990. It is about the protection of other people’s minor children and we are legally and morally obligated to pro-tect them.

Well, we have come a long way. Yes, we have! The par-adigm is shifting and members are beginning to under-stand it all.

In these current, relentless emails, rumors are being re-ported as facts. In some cases the emails have been in-timidating and have felt threatening. This is hard on eve-ryone, especially the individuals working the positions. How can we expect to get good people to do these ser-vice positions when they must spend an enormous amount of time working issues that are unrelated to their job description?

No matter what information is communicated to some individuals, it is not accepted. Your support is needed.

“Al-Anon and Alateen members expect a safe and pleasant environment when they attend a meeting, and when one member causes unrest due to inappro-priate or intimidating behavior, the entire group could be affected. Groups are within their autonomy to es-tablish group behavioral guidelines in a manner that reflects their group conscience and abides by the Tra-ditions.

When the behavior of any member impacts the group, members apply the Traditions to the problem, and de-termine how best to approach the individual(s) in-volved, to ask the member to change the behavior in question. This can be an exercise in applying Al-Anon principles so that the message is not a personal attack, but rather a request based on what is best for the Al-Anon group.” Al-Anon/Alateen Service Manual 2014-2017, page 54.

I responded to one of the emails. In that email I pro-vided historical and factual data. It was about clarifi-cation and transparency regarding some of the state-ments in the emails. It fell on deaf ears.

In the past the culture that we have had has always been – “it is the way we have always done it.” And – “if it works don’t fix it.” In an effort to maintain ano-nymity and confidentiality, many situations with Alateens or AMIASs were kept from you, our mem-bers. The situations that have occurred involved the safety of the Alateens. For example, Alateens on the roof of a hotel at 3:00AM, Alateens in a swimming pool of a hotel at 1:00AM and age-inappropriate fe-males with older Alateen males, Alateens sleeping in hotel hallways, Alateens sleeping in hotel laundry carts, more than twenty Alateens in a hotel room with one AMIAS, and the AMIAS forced to sleep on the floor in front of the door to assure Alateens do not leave the room in the middle of the night. Hotels stip-ulate that there be no more than four to a room and we have been allowing as many Alateens that can fit in a hotel room. This creates many legal and moral liabilities for all of us, including the Alateens.

Another situation we have had is Alateens becoming AMIAS at 21 after they immediately age out of Alateen without any break. One day they are a 20-year-old Alateen and the next day they are a 21-year- old AMIAS. We expected them to act as adults and not as Alateens. There have been many other inci-dents.

Now since having these safeguards with the Area Alateen Safety and Behavioral Requirements in place, the incidents have dropped significantly. Again this is

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2016 and not the 1990s.

In 2010 there was a large financial shortfall for South-ern California Alateen Conference (SCAC) because the contract was read wrong! The 2010-2011 SCAC Com-mittee came to the Area and requested help. The Area responded by requesting the groups of SCWS voluntari-ly contribute money for the shortfall. SCAC’s financial viability was saved.

Then in late 2011, it was the discovered that there had been a theft of the money from the SCAC bank account. Again the groups of SCWS came through with their vol-untary contributions to help defray the shortfall. The Groups have always come through. Again, SCAC’s fi-nancial viability was saved.

The end result is that the SCWS now has oversight of the SCAC bank account which the Alateens themselves put into the SCAC Bylaws by a 100% unanimous vote of the Alateens at 2013. For example, if there is a with-drawal from the account, the SCWS Treasurer is noti-fied from the bank via email. The SCWS Treasurer and the Area Alateen Sponsor Coordinator both serve on the SCAC Board of Directors.

The Area has never before had this type of relationship with SCAC. There is a trust and an understanding and that has never existed before. In the past when any questions were asked to the SCAC Committee about financial matters, even how much SCAC was paying for the Conference, the reply from the SCAC Committee was “it is none of your business”. This is even while the groups were contributing to SCAC by their voluntary contributions. Well, we have come a long way from those days!

Now what is being asked? That we change what we have. Concept 5: The rights of appeal and petition pro-tect minorities and insure that they be heard.

Knowledge Based Decision Making (KBDM) states: “However large the majority is, the minority has a right to be heard. But the minority voice must raise issues that haven’t already raised. To have a minority report requires new information. I don’t like the decision is not a reason for a minority appeal. Why is the decision wrong and what are the new facts?

Let us remember that once a group conscience decision is made, we support the decision whether we agree with it or not. See page 53 of the Service Manual.

Remember we are all trusted servants. We are all vol-unteers and we give freely of our time. Some literally spend 40 hours or more per week on volunteer posi-tions. Please, let us presume goodwill!

Love in service, Jayme C. Panel 52, CA(S)

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I recently listened to a recording from our 2011 SOS

held in Camarillo, CA. The speaker was Ric B., Executive

Director, WSO. He spoke of the importance of the quali-

ty of our decisions we make in Al-Anon service. We

want quality decisions based and grounded on spiritual

principles we can follow. Decisions that help us fulfill

our primary purpose in Al-Anon service. In our com-

mittee meeting today we will use KBDM as we seek a

consensus in our decisions. We want quality decisions

that help Al-Anon grow in carrying the message of help

and hope.

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Secretary

Greetings! Just a gentle reminder that at every Assem-bly and Committee Meeting, the minutes from the pre-vious meeting will be approved. For example, the Feb-ruary Committee meeting Minutes are approved at the August Committee meeting and vice versa. Likewise, the Minutes of the Area Assembly in May are approved in November, and vice versa.

LIS, Sandy P. SCWS Secretary, 2015-2017

Treasurer

See financial reports on pages 31-49

ASK IT BASKET

February SCWS Committee Meeting Question: When will we know if clickers will be used in May? In order to tell the GRs.

Answer: The question will come up at the next SCWS Board meeting, on May 1, 2016. A Past Delegate point-ed out at the February SCWS Committee meeting that the differential between the GRs voting at the Novem-ber Assembly not to purchase (40%) and those voting to rent (15% or less) was large enough to indicate that in-deed the GRs want to purchase, and they want different specific details than the ones proposed in the motion.

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More discussion was needed in November. The Com-mittee (DRs, Coordinators, Liaisons and Officers) took a consensus vote indicating that they were not in favor of spending between $1,600 to $2,000 just for the May As-sembly meeting, which probably reflects that differential between the two votes.

Question: Is there a guideline regarding “50/50” Raffles/Opportunity Raffle that is split with the winner up to $600.00 but they extra balance is given back to the event or another drawing to split balance with a second win-ner: It was mention a 90/10 rule for non-profit Raffles?

Answer: The Service Manual points out that the use of Raffles/Lottery Tickets is a legal issue. If we go by the Service Manual (page 98) it states that entities that are not registered as charities could be prohibited from such sales by state or provincial laws. Thus, if the entity is not registered as a charitable organization then someone from that entity should contact a California based tax attorney, otherwise the entity is risking breaking the law.

Question: Our Service Manual states on page 98 “Local statutes must also be investigated and must be complied with in order to prevent individual members and Al-Anon as a whole from becoming involved in public controver-sy”.

Answer: Once determining that the proposed raffle and/or lottery is legally permitted within the Area where it is to be held (if that is the case), additional precautions need to be taken so that we are not diverted from our primary purpose and do not imply endorsement. Distri-bution and sale of raffle/lottery tickets should be limited to Al-Anon/Alateen meetings and events.

Question: Approximately 1/3 of meetings held in So. Cal. Area 4 are in Spanish. Where is the Area at, in its discus-sion of formalizing a translation position so all written SCWS material may be available in Spanish?

Answer: When the position became vacant during the 2012-2014 term, the SCWS Board notified the member-ship in the Area that the position is available. No one applied. When members were invited to submit a re-sume for the 2015-2017 coordinator positions, still no one applied for the position. We certainly are interested in having a Diversity Coordinator, such as they have in California-North, who would coordinate/oversee a team of volunteer translators of written documents. This is an unpaid volunteer position with SCWS, just as the inter-preter at Assembly meetings is an unpaid volunteer posi-tion with SCWS. Since the coordinator would be oversee-ing others who would do the written translations, being fluent in a language other than English is not required.

Indeed, requests to have documents translated into multiple languages could be honored with a Diversity Coordinator position being filled, with an available list of volunteers to do the written translations. There are meetings in California-South that carry literature in Russian, Chinese, Korean, German and Farsi, and per-haps others too. The Orange County Intergroup re-cently had a request for interpreting/translation into Vietnamese. There is great potential for interpreting/translation into multiple languages for the Assembly meetings.

Question: Why are there no current motions for 2014 and 2015 posted on SCWS website?

Answer: The current motions list already has been updated and should be on the SCWS web site before this Bulletin is published.

Question: Why are we passing a card for a member who is not present? This is an outside issue. We do not do this for all members who loses a loved one. I have tried to address this issue in our district, as an outside issue, but when area leadership does this practice it becomes double-headed management.

Answer: In hindsight it was a mistake to pass around a condolence card.

Coordinator

Reports

Area Alateen Sponsor Coordinator

Area Alateen Task Force vs. Area Alateen Resolution Committee: A Task Force is defined as “temporary unit of people established to work on a single defined task or activi-ty. They use the resources available such as members of the task force and knowledge from staff … A task force may fulfill the recommendations made by a thought force. Task forces are the “doers’” (Service Manual, page 69).

The one Area Alateen Task Force, also approved by the Assembly 2013 vote, will be reviewing the follow-ing issues: (1) overnighters; (2) upper age limit of Alateen members; and (3) special needs Alateens. This task force is in the final selection process for day/time to meet and plans to begin work by early March 2016.

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before the SCAC Registration Packet can be released.

Alateen Event Plan:

The Area Alateen Sponsor Coordinator was asked to make Event Plans a top priority of this panel in order that the Area meet its responsibility and commitment to providing a safe environment for Alateen events.

The Alateen Event Plan format was revised as of Octo-ber 16, 2015. The Event Plan was revised to provide more information, guidance and explanation on how to effectively, accurately and fully answer each question. The revisions were not due to any change in policy or procedure. The 2015-2016 Recertification Workshop focuses on how to complete an Event Plan.

The revisions were based on a pattern of issues that seemed common to every completed Event Plan. This pattern was not the fault of anyone completing an Event Plan, but rather was attributable to the actual format of the plan. It became obvious that more direc-tions and instructions were need in the format in order that the required information would be included.

The revised Event Plan did introduce a final Event Plan approval deadline established by the Area Alateen Res-olution Committee. The Event Plan final approval date is 15 days before the event date (30 days before an overnight/multi-day event date).

Ratio of Event Sponsors/AMIAS Chaperones per spe-cific number of Alateens:

Keeping the responsibility of safety in mind, each Area has the responsibility to set minimum ratios for AMIAS per number of Alateens for each type of Alateen event to ensure proper supervision.

The Area Alateen Resolution Committee is in the pro-cess of establishing a minimum ratio of AMIAS supervi-sion per specific number of Alateens for each type of Alateen event (i.e., convention, fundraiser, conference, events with Al-Anon members participating, et al.) This is an ongoing process and ratios will be announced as decisions are reached.

The ratio currently established for Conventions is: One Event Sponsor/AMIAS Chaperone and one Alateen Event Security Team Member for every 10 Alateens attending the convention. The Alateen Event Security Team member is counted as one in the group of 10 Alateens. The ratio of one AMIAS and one Alateen Security Team member was suggested by and developed based on the very successful SCAC Sponsor/Co-Sponsors - SCAC Committee model.

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There is no time limit for the Task Force’s work. They are done when they say they are done. There are no updates on their progress as everything reviewed and discussed in any format is confidential until it reports its findings to the Assembly.

The Area Alateen Resolution Committee was estab-lished by the Assembly via the May 2013 vote to ac-cept and implement the current Area Alateen Safety and Behavioral Requirements. In this document the resolution committee is described as “the decision making entity for issues pertaining to Alateen” (page 11). This committee would never step in and consid-er an issue that should be decided by a vote of the GRs at an Assembly (i.e., revision of the Area Alateen Safety and Behavioral Requirements, new or revised Alateen budget expenditures not already authorized per the Area bylaws or Assembly vote, or recommen-dations from the Alateen Task Force, et al.).

AMIAS Recertification Workshop: A gentle reminder The Recertification Workshop schedule is posted on the Alateen Sponsorship tab of the Area’s web site. There will be no make-up or last minute sessions added.

Every AMIAS is required to attend an annual Recerti-fication Workshop between September 1, 2015 and May 31, 2016 to be eligible to have his/her certifica-tion be extended beyond May 31, 2016. The last workshop for this recertification period is scheduled on April 30, 2016. If an AMIAS does not meet the recertification eligibility, he or she will not be able to attend SCAC 2016. Please check the Alateen Sponsorship tab on the Area’s web site for the schedule of remaining workshops … http://scws-al-anon.org.

Districts may need to make changes to the schedule so please be sure to check the web site for the most current schedule and to confirm your RSVP with the session contact.

SCAC: SCAC 2016 is scheduled for June 24 – 26, 2016 pend-ing final approval of the SCAC Event Plan.

In order for the Event Plan to receive final approval, every AMIAS making a commitment to be of service as an AMIAS chaperone must provide an official guarantee of this commitment. SCAC is an Alateen Event and must meet the same requirements as any Alateen Event. A letter via email has been sent to every AMIAS, asking for commitments to attend SCAC 2016 to be emailed to the SCAC 2016 Sponsor.

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I will be following up on the “Group History Checklist” that was distributed at the May meeting. We will start updating the history of all the meetings in Southern California that want to participate. We hope to put this rich history in a binder that can be shared with all of our fellowship. Please bring your completed form to future SCWS meetings in February and August.

You can also go online and access the “Group History Checklist” form as well. It is found on the WSO web-site at Archives e – Community, form AR6. Upon com-pletion it can be sent to me at: [email protected].

I will have another very interesting flyer containing a great bit of history to share with all in attendance at the January SOS Workshop meeting. It concerns Al-Anon Family Groups participation for the very first time, at the 1955 AA International Convention in St. Louis, Missouri. Our first publication, “The Al-Anon Family Groups- A Guide for the Families of Problem Drinkers” was made available at this event.

This is the 60th anniversary of our first book.

Also, I will have copies for distribution of the 1976 Program for our SOS Workshop. It was a 2-day event held in Long Beach that became the format used for our AFG Convention that is celebrating 40 years in 2016.

This is our 42 Annual SOS Workshop. That is awe-some!

Until next time. With Love in Service, Dan P., Archives Coordinator

Bulletin

Thank you for the opportunity to serve as the Bulletin Coordinator for our area. This is a first for me and I will need you help. I want to thank all of you who sent your reports to be published in the Bulletin this month. Please get with you Intergroup, Districts and groups to make sure you have a copy of the Bulletin. It is $15.00 per year and will be mailed to you as soon as it is published.

Thank you for letting me be of service

Jim B.

Group Records #1: Area Group Data Active Groups current number: 1,245 These groups have a Current Mailing Address (CMA) and/or a Group Representative (GR).

No Mail current number: 66

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There were 31 new AMIASs certified during the fourth quarter of 2015 and 39 AMIASs processed during the first quarter of 2016. Currently there are 396 certified AMIASs and 103 registered Alateen meetings.

All AMIAS certifications expire on May 31, 2016 (the Ar-ea Alateen Safety and Behavioral Requirements state a different date so please be aware of this corrected date). If an AMIAS attended an SCWS AMIAS Recertifica-tion Workshop between June 1, 2015 and May 31, 2016, then their AMIAS certification is automatically extended to May 31, 2017. If an AMIAS was newly certified after Jan 1, 2016 then they are exempt from attending the Recertification Workshop before May 31, 2016 and are automatically extended to May 31, 2017.

Please send all AMIAS applications and Alateen Meeting GR-3 forms via email to [email protected]. Emailing documents provides you with a submission copy for your records and allows me to expedite the pro-cessing of new AMIAS applications and new Alateen Meetings within one week of receipt.

Thank you for letting me be of service! Tarisa R.

Alateen Coordinator

We are currently working on the SCAC event plan and registration packet. In order for the event plan to be ap-proved, we need to reach a certain AMIAS to Alateen ratio. This means that we need as many AMIAS as possi-ble to commit to attending SCAC as soon as possible. If you are an AMIAS and even slightly considering attend-ing SCAC, please ask Cathleen or Sean for my infor-mation. I would be more than happy to answer any questions you have. Our monthly fundraising events have been very successful thanks to my amazing and hardworking committee. More specifically, our most suc-cessful fundraiser this year has been the November luncheon, so thank you all so much for your incredible support. I would also like to welcome any current AMIAS out to our monthly SCAC events. I hope to see you there, and thank you again for all of your continued support towards SCAC.

In love and service, SCAC 2016 Chairperson

Archives

I had a couple of items for the SOS Workshop meeting.

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If there is neither a CMA nor a GR for a group, they go into No Mail status.

Inactive 295 After 2 years, of No Mail, a group becomes Inactive. They stay Inactive for 3 years, if there are no financial contributions made from the group. If there is a financial contribution made, the group may be Inactive for up to 7 years. After those lengths of time, a group is Marked for Deletion.

Marked for Deletion 65 In the first quarter of the year, these meetings are delet-ed from the WSO database. Their identification numbers are retired and cannot be re-used.

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#2: Where to submit Group Updates/Registrations Please continue to educate our GRs to use ONLY our SCWS website to fill out any group records changes that pertain to the SCWS/WSO information flow. They do not need to duplicate their efforts by sending the same infor-mation to WSO, since I access the WSO data base direct-ly.

#3 : DRs and District Records If any DRs need help accessing, downloading, and organ-izing their District records, please give me a call or email me and we can set up an appointment to go through the process. I will also be available during the lunch break today to meet with any DRs who may have any questions or concerns regarding their district’s records.

When you email me about any meetings in your district, it would be very helpful for you to put the group’s WSO ID# in the subject line of the email. That makes my job so much easier—and I’ll get back to you more quickly!

#4 : Universal Group Update Form Our Website Coordinator has designed a revision of the on-line Registration/Group Records Change Form that we have been evolving over the past year. We anticipate publishing the first version of it on the website before the May Assembly.

Donna E. SCWS Group Records Coordinator [email protected] or [email protected]

Cooperating with the Professional Community (CPC) I emailed the SCWS district repre-

sentatives and officers to remind them of the February deadline for ordering the 2016 edition of Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism. (The 2016 AFAs will be delivered in April.) I

ordered copies of the 2016 AFA myself to distribute to clinics and other professional organizations during the year. I participated in a conference call with District 27 to ask for their input on professional organizations, health fairs, and conferences where I can distribute AFAs and other Al-Anon literature. I also requested volunteers to join me for health fairs or conferences. Later, I spoke privately with District 27’s H & I coordi-nator and she suggested several medical clinics and therapy centers in various parts of Southern Califor-nia, which I will be contacting. Thank you for letting me be of service. Melva C. CPC Coordinator

Hospitality

Thank you so much to the districts who brought snacks to the Committee Meeting. As I announce the districts scheduled to bring snacks for the May 21 As-sembly, please acknowledge me. Those districts are: District 3, District 24, District 42, District 54, District 57, District 60, District 64 and District 69. Please be prepared to prep your food (or have it already prepped) and put it on the tables.

In my emails to the districts I have been asking, in a general way, for volunteers to help set up and clean up. Some districts have responded, but many have not. I need more help. I realize now that this is not a one-man job. I will be assigning time slots to specific districts for help. You may recruit someone to come along for this task who is not a GR or DR.

Also, I will not be here for the Assembly on May 21. I need someone to take my place that day or we won’t have hospitality, which means we won’t have coffee, water or snacks. Is there someone or is there a dis-trict willing to volunteer to take on this commitment? Thank you Ana, DR 42.

Love in service Judy P., Hospitality Coordinator

Institutions There are three (3) major upcoming activities for Insti-tutions: 1. Southern California 35th Annual H & I AA Confer-ence with Al-Anon Participation: Gateway to Service.

Dates: April 8, 9, 10,2016, Holiday Inn, 14299 Fire-stone Blvd., La Mirada, CA 90638, (714) 739-8500.

Al-Anon Program, Saturday, April 9th, Luncheon: $32 (12:00PM-2:00PM), Luncheon Speakers are Greg R., June D. and Bob L.

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who can, donate? Books sold at our cost allow us to buy another book, so that book buys another book. Pamphlets are free, but we could ask for the donation price of the pieces to those who can. Have a lending library to check out books? This is a request. Maybe we try it for 30 days. The meeting voted and funds were donated and the meeting is healthy. We are car-rying the message of hope from Al-Anon to the mem-bers who walk through the doors. They take our words and messages as well as the written word from our literature that they can refer back to over and over.

When I was new, I got literature. I attended a New-comers meeting and got the packet, then I came back every week to build my library. That literature was a constant reminder of the meeting I attended and the kind of people I would find at meetings like those.

Probably my most important job is to encourage Area 4/California South members to send in sharings. Al-Anon’s Literature committee at the WSO was given approval to develop a few pieces of literature. That literature is written by us and for us. WE MUST turn in shares. Some of you are having workshops to encour-age this! Invite me! Invite me to cover this at your dis-trict meeting for 15 mins. I will do my best to support you in some way.

I mentioned to my district and my meeting that I would never ask you to do something I would not do. So, I will sign off on my February Committee Message, so I can get to the www.al-anon-org site, go to the members site, and find the page where they need shares for in the intimacy and new daily reader. Let it begin with me.

Love in Service all, Kathy G/Literature Coordinator California South/Area 4

Public Outreach

I received an email from Beth WSO, an encourage-ment to write to local newspapers.

I received a couple of sample letters from her. I wrote to several local newspapers and am waiting for re-sponse. We look forward to a favorable printing.

If you know the name of your local newspaper and especially if you have a contact number, please email me or phone me with that information 909 2392360.

Thank you to all who have contacted me and asked for suggestions for public outreach in their districts. I will be visiting some of you very soon.

One more time, remember that I have new banners

Al-Anon Panels (2:00PM-4:00PM) covering Prisons, Hos-pitals, Recovery Centers, Schools and FAQs. Registration by 4/1/16: $15.00 or at Conference: $20.00 Register Online: http://www.socalhandi.org/RF_H_I_Conference.html Register by Mail: SoCal H&I Conference, P.O. Box 911 Fullerton, CA 92836. Anyone interested in knowing more about Institutions as it relates to Prisons, Hospitals and Recovery Centers, and Schools should attend the upcoming H&I Confer-ence:

2. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilita-tion (CDCR) Volunteer Advisory Task Force (VATF) Com-mittee Meeting: February 25, 2016, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

3. The Northern California 44th Annual Hospital and Institution Conference of AA with Al-Anon Participation Service is Recovery, April 29, 30 & May 1, 2016, Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Hall 1351 Maple Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Billy M.

Literature

Hello Area California South, Area 4!

For many of us, we are into our second year of service. It is time to take stock of what we hoped to do with our commitment and what time we have left to get it done.

As Literature Coordinator, I am all about Literature! What are you reading? What am I reading? What is your meeting selling? I have heard from many, that literature is tough to keep in stock due to the price of pamphlets and books. The treasury cannot sustain an ample display they have said. Really! Hum. I begin to think. What can your meeting have on hand, that is going to give any new member or regular member something to pick up that will give them an “ah ha” moment.

For sure we need at least one service manual and one groups at work. How about directories? At some meetings, they are sold at cost and given free only to newcomers. That tool is a necessity as not all members have internet access. How about a selection of pam-phlets? A printout of the “Forum Magazine” order form! How about some wallet cards, a daily reader, ”How Al-Anon Works” paperback, conflict resolution packet, or one or two of our workbooks. We have choices!

I heard a member say recently that there meeting was having low funds for a very long time. I thought of this scenario--- One day as group rep, we pose a question to the group. What if we take a group conscience to have more donations? What if we pass a basket, for those

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and beautiful new tablecloths that can be borrowed for any upcoming events.

Rose S. Public Outreach

Website

Please remember to keep your district and group regis-tration information up to date when your DR or GR and alternates change by going to:

www.scws-al-anon.org/send_ mtg_record_ updates.php.

Also remember to update email addresses every time they change as well.

DRs, please check your “District Meeting” information at : www.scws-al-anon.org/district_meetings.php as well as the “Districts and Cities” webpage: www.scws-al-anon.org/cities_by_ district.php on our SCWS website to make sure that information is correct. Please send changes to: [email protected].

Just a reminder that our SCWS “Calendar” website is available for posting information regarding SCWS and district events and convention information. Please proof-read your flyers carefully and make sure that Al-Anon is identified on the flyer. Before convention information can be posted on our website that includes Alateen par-ticipation, a formal Alateen Event Plan must be ap-proved. You can email: [email protected] for more information.

Following Committee and Assembly meetings, you will find presentations posted on our SCWS website under “Assembly Presentations.” Bulletins including infor-mation and reports from Committee and Assembly meetings are also posted on our “Bulletins” webpage.

Also remember that our WSO Website at: www.al-anon.org has a wide variety of information and resources for your use. Log in following the instructions given. If you click on the “Media” tab at the top of the home page, media communications information is availa-ble including public service announcements, news releas-es, and more. If you click on the “Members’ Site” tab, you can log in following the directions given to view re-sources for members including a wide variety of infor-mation for individuals and groups, information about the service structure, World Service Office, Public Outreach, and Alateen.

If you notice something that is not working or have any suggestions or questions concerning the SCWS website, please contact me at [email protected].

Irene C., Website Coordinator

District Representative

Reports

District 3 (Central Coast – Northern Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County) Arroyo Grande | Atascadero |Cambria |Cayucos | Lompoc | Los Alamos | Los Osos | Morro Bay | Nipomo | Orcutt | Paso Robles |Pismo Beach | San Luis Obispo | Santa Maria | Sol-vang

Although we are a small district, we are trying to cre-ate opportunities for connecting our meeting groups to each other. By providing the venue, members can share their experience, strength and hope, fellowship and be of service. We will be celebrating our 14th an-nual day in Al-Anon, Serenity by the Sea, Saturday, February 27th. Registration is significantly higher than last year. We have 2 local warm-up speakers and a main speaker from Southern California sharing their E, S & H. It is day filled with a beautiful ocean view, great food, fellowship and recovery.

We started a district-sponsored monthly Open Al-Anon Speaker & Birthday meeting in January. We had 2 speakers, birthday cake and Al-Anon birthday chips. It was very well attended.

We had 5 people who said it was their first Al-Anon meeting they ever went to, a great public outreach opportunity! We got positive feedback from both Al-Anon and AA members and look forward to the next celebration of recovery. A district dream for the last 10 years, it is finally a reality.

Our district used KBDM to purchase $1900.00 of liter-ature at bulk prices from WSO. We voted to have the district pay the shipping costs and sell the CAL to our AFG’s and individual members at the discounted price. We have already sold half the literature. We have a lot of small meetings – less than 10 members - that are benefiting from this decision.

Grateful to be of service, Mary M./ DR

District 6 Bakersfield | Delano | Frazier Park | Kernville | Lake Isabella | Mount Mesa | Oildale | Porterville | Shafter | Taft | Tehachapi | Wofford Heights

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District 8 Goleta | Montecito | Santa Barbara | Santa Ynez

We have been busy getting started with what looks like a great year.

We had a pizza party and fund-raiser towards our Al-Anon participation in the Santa Barbara AA Convention Jan. 30th. We had speakers on gratitude, a bake sale, and a sing along. The well attended even gave us a good start to our goals for this year’s convention. The date is Oct. 21-23 at the Elks Club in Goleta for those of you considering attending.

Sat. May 21st we will be having a workshop on Conflict Resolution. Anyone who has already hosted this topic and has information, we would love you to share.

We have had some challenges in Alateen meeting attend-ance, but are having great luck for the meetings we have within area high schools and continue to add high schools with the option.

Our monthly speaker meeting the 2nd Saturday has gained in popularity. Come see us if you are in the area Sat. night at 7 PM.

We are discussing a public outreach district supported meeting with childcare and have found a supportive and well-appointed venue. I would also like any experience strength and hope from areas with such meetings.

Tommie R., DR

District 9 Canyon Country | Lancaster | Mojave | Palmdale | Quartz Hill | Santa Clarita | Saugus | Valencia

District 9 encompasses the Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita Valley. Meeting are held on even months and ro-tate between the 2 communities. Recently we held a suc-cessful AMIAS recertification. The Antelope Valley Con-vention Committee held a speaker dinner fundraiser and raised a lot of needed money. The convention is coming up on March 5th at the Holiday Inn in Palmdale. The DR is planning a trip to the South West Regional Delegates Meeting in March in La Jolla. The next district meeting will be a "love gift" making event in Lancaster. I hope we are all crafty.

In service, Suzi E., DR

District 10 Adelanto | Apple Valley | Barstow | Helendale | Hesper-ia | Lucerne Valley | Phelan | Tecopa | Victorville | Wrightwood

We closed out 2015 with our annual Christmas Party.

We are still in need of some committee chairpersons, we recently had our Alateen coordinator resign but someone stepped up to the plate and volunteered as that is what this program is all about.

Our H&I person has been hard at work. We will be having our Annual Heart Talk luncheon speaker meeting this next Saturday February 27, 2016. We have some great speakers.

I am looking forward to 2016 in hopes that I will do a better job as District 10 Representative.

Eleanor K., DR

District 12 Camarillo | Goleta | Guadalupe | Oak View | Ojai | Oxnard | Port Hueneme | Santa Paula | Simi Valley | Thousand Oaks | Ventura | Westlake

Hi everyone, Wow this is going to be printed in February of my 3rd year as DR. It's funny how it seem so daunting at first and now I'm nearing the end! Crazy! I've learned a lot. First, how important the service manual is. Sec-ond, to remember I'm doing my best! At first I re-ceived many opinions. I now invite people to be part of the process to help make the changes they are sug-gesting. I've also gotten closer to the literature as well as the steps, traditions, and concepts. Plus, there are amazing people who have loved me and supported me from day 1. I'm so grateful for my Al-Anon fami-ly :)

I've visited many meetings and I realize how we are all the same! I'm going to SWRDM next week. I'm looking forward to seeing what exactly it entails. Most of all I've learned I don't have to be perfect and it's all going to work out! Thank you for the opportunity to be of service,

Love in service, Lalena, DR

District 17 Canoga Park | Chatsworth | Encino | Granada Hills | Malibu | North Hills | Northridge | Reseda | Tarzana | Woodland Hills

During the past several months some of District 17’s meetings have moved to new locations and new meetings have started. Our District 17 meeting (2nd Tues. 7-8:30 PM every other odd month) has also moved to a new location at St. Innocent Orthodox Church, 5657 Lindley Ave. Tarzana,Ca. 91356

P O: Our Public Outreach committee designed and had printed a new business card sized information

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tool. It can easily be carried in a wallet. It is two sided, English and Spanish and reads:

Does someone's drinking bother you? Find Help and Hope

Al-Anon Family Groups Call 818.760.7122 or 888.425.2666

www.alanonla.org

District 17 has placed an order for the new " 2016 Al-Anon Face Alcoholism" brochure and will be distributing them throughout the West Valley community this spring and summer.

Two members of the Outreach committee (Lisa and Mari-lyn) are planning to attend the H&I conference in April.

Lisa D Public Outreach Chair District 17

ALATEEN UPDATE: Our Alateen meetings continue to run strong and we continue to reach out to Al-Anons about becoming AMIASs. Unfortunately, the Alateens were not able to officially be a part of the annual San Fernando Val-ley AA Convention with Al-Anon and Alateen participation this past January due to the submission of incomplete event plan. The district hopes to reach out to the new Alateen convention committee this year to provide sup-port wherever we can. Our district will be hosting its annual re-certification workshop on Saturday, March 5 from noon-4pm at Bethel Lutheran Church, 17500 Burbank Bl., Encino 91316

RSVP to Cathy at: [email protected]

Service is Love, Enid M., DR

District 21 (East Side of San Fernando Valley) North Hollywood | Valley Village | Studio City | Sherman Oaks | Van Nuys | Valley Glen | Mission Hills | Sylmar | Sunland | Arleta

In the absence of our current District Representative, Marley K. and her Alternate, Kristen, I was asked to help out as Alternate and Acting District Representative. Ironi-cally, my Higher Power had a message for me, in this ser-vice, which came as a surprise.

District 21 has always been a huge supporter of Alateen meetings and activities, and three of our past DR’s, includ-ing myself, are current or “retired” Alateen sponsors. In processing the changes to Alateen sponsorship and Alateen participation in events, we have been involved in workshops and other methods of supporting the Area guidelines. One of our members expressed concern and confusion about some of the policies currently in use. So as a District, we discussed these concerns. Our group rep-

resentatives listened carefully to the discussion and made it clear that they did not feel they had enough information to discuss the topic. They asked us to cre-ate an Ad Hoc committee or Thought Force to give them more information. In reviewing the May 2013 motion, some questions came up which we will discuss as a District. So we will practice using KBDM, the 12 Concepts of Service and any other useful tools to better educate our GR’s at our March 15th district meeting. Our new District Alateen Liaison will get quite an indoctrination working with our past DAL, past DR and myself!

Our district has also made progress in our outreach efforts to schools. We have a contact that is reviewing literature that will be placed, hopefully, in parent cen-ters in some LAUSD schools in the Northeast Valley. Our district approved a $250 initial budget for the ini-tial contact and a committee was formed to follow-up.

We are also sending two of our active service mem-bers to the April H&I Conference. The Al-Anon pro-gram, as well as the AA program, will be a source of inspiration and education for these members and we look forward to hearing their report back from the conference. Our inspired group is very willing to be of service when they have a task; the Twelfth Step is very much alive in District 21!

Love in service, Suzanne P., Alt DR (acting DR) Marley D., DR And Kristen B-A, Alt DR (on leave)

District 24 Altadena | Atwater Village | Burbank | Glendale | La Canada | La Cresenta | Monrovia | Montrose | Sun-land | Tujunga

No report was submitted by this district.

District 27 Beverly Hills | Brentwood | Hollywood | Los Angeles | Malibu | Pacific Palisades | Santa Monica | Silver-lake | Topanga | West Hollywood | West Los Angeles | Westwood

Things have been moving right along in D27. We now have a DAL-Jason L & IT Guru-Brynne T (both are not GRs-just volunteers)! We are very grateful to have both positions filled. Speaking of grateful... D27 had a scholarship fund to increase GR participation at SWRDM. I & 2 of our GRs had the opportunity to go down to San Diego to experience & learn from Trus-tees, Delegates & Past Delegates from our SW Region. Best take away-"Can you live with it?"

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From March to April D27 had 13 Jr Billboards put up across our District. This Public Outreach Campaign took a good 2 years in the making-The creation (Sacha S ADR) & voting of the design, approval by WSO & finding a Bill-board Co willing to work within our budget. We say all in GOD’S time, right? Look for this project again next year-when we intend to ask all members of D27 to participate & submit their designs so it can be more inclusive.

We just finished having our Al-Anon Booth-in order to carry the message of hope for those who are still suffer-ing-at the LA Times Festival of Books over at USC SAT & SUN April 9-10. A big shout out to the LA AIS (Natalie T & Adria R) who brought our CAL books to sell to the attendees who came out even though there was a bit of rain on SAT. New this year was card readers for credit card purchases. Of course we had plenty of free pam-phlets, bookmarks, candy (Claire W from WSO sugges-tion) & 2016 AFAs on hand. Thank you to our Volunteer Coordinator Kristine K, Milton G & our 20 Volunteers. In my humble opinion, the fellowship at this event has to be the best I've yet to experience. Saturday June 4, is the Hollywood Sign Run/YMCA Health Fair. D27 is in the process of discussing this as its next PO Project. LIS, Richard R., DR

District 30 Alhambra | Altadena | Arcadia | El Monte | Pasadena | San Gabriel | San Marino | Sierra Madre | South Pasa-dena | Temple City


District 33 Azusa | Baldwin Park | Covina | Diamond Bar | Glen-dora |Hacienda Heights| La Puente| Monrovia |West Covina

Greetings from District 33! The "Giggle All The Way To Serenity" committee wants to thank you for your love and support. Members loved the fun workshop and the great Al-Anon, Alateen and AA speakers. Attendees enjoyed the program related games using “Groups At Work” and other tools of the program. The room was filled with many laughs.

Our focus is to continue to carry the message not just for the newcomers, but for ourselves as well. We have or-dered “Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism 2016“, to reach out to those who are affected by someone else’s drinking. They will be distributed at our district meeting to our Service Board, and the Service Board will take them back to your

meeting group.

Institutions consistently is taking panels to Aurora Hospital in Covina, with the cooperation of Al-Anon and AA members. Also Public Outreach participated in a Health fair and arranged to run Al-Anon public ser-vice announcements on a radio station.

Alateens in our area, are a great example of how the Alateen program helps the families of Alcoholics. This past year several of our Alateens volunteered as speakers at our district workshop, as well as area meetings. Alateens a big THANK YOU for your wiliness to be of service.

Our Alateens from Tuesday night in West Covina just celebrated their Anniversary with an open meeting and had a SCAC bake sale so they can pay their own half of scholarship to SCAC. Also, starting January 2016, each meeting is encouraged to start passing a donation can for the 2016 Southern California Alateen Conference (SCAC). Donations will provide half of scholarship for Alateens wanting to attend the 2016 SCAC. We still are in need of Alateen male sponsors. We had a Re-certification Alateen Members Involved in Alateen Service (AMIAS) workshop on Saturday February 13, 2016 in Glendora CA. With an excellent presentation on how to fill out an Alateen event form, our enthusiastic AMIASs have questions that were clarified and let me tell you everyone in our area is on board with Alateen safety guidelines.

Also please mark your calendars, our annual Alathon fundraiser will be on Saturday, June 18, 2016 . Our theme is “Celebrate with Gratitude” come join us for some fun recovery time.

I am so happy to have shared one more year in ser-vice, recovery and laughter with ya'll, and let’s make 2016 another amazing year! If you are thinking about being of service, there are always plenty of opportuni-ties. My email is: [email protected]

Visit our website www.al-anonesgv.org for future workshops and news information.

Thank you for allowing me to be of service. Maria M., DR

District 36 Alta Loma|Chino|Claremont|La Verne |Ontario| Pomona|Rancho Cucamonga|San Dimas|Upland

Public Outreach: We are still supplying libraries in District 36 with Al-Anon literature. Our Public Out-reach person has been attending local Health Fairs, handing out Al-Anon literature and Al-Anon Faces Al-

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coholism booklets. One church in our district where a meeting is held has approached us looking to partner in promoting the meeting. We supplied them with infor-mation, Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism, order forms and WSO generated poster to inform their congregation of the meeting.

Fundraisers: In December, we had our “Holiday Potluck” fundraiser for the Colton Service Center. We will be sending a check to them from this fundraiser in the neighborhood of about $635.00. The main speaker was our own Robin B.

AMIAS Recertification Workshop: Districts 36 and 39 will be joining forces again to conduct the AMIAS Recertifica-tion Workshop on Saturday, April 30.

Group Concerns: Many groups are passing around a “Forum Can” to help increase subscriptions...with the announcement that WSO will no longer provide groups with a copy of the Forum. We all know the impact this publication has on everyone.

Getting better by “Stepping out of my Comfort Zone”.

Sam Y., DR

District 39 Banning | Beaumont | Big Bear | Blue Jay | Chino Hills | Colton | Corona | Crestline | Fontana | Indio | Lake Arrowhead | Mentone | Moreno Valley | Norco | Perris | Redlands | Rialto | Riverside | Running Springs | San Bernardino | Twin Peaks | Yucaipa

Our district is already hard at work on our 2016 fundrais-er-the Garden of Hope. This celebration will take place Saturday August the 13th at the River Christian Reformed Church in Redlands. All event positions have been filled with many new and exciting ideas being considered.

Every month I assign a topic for a GR to present to our entire group. I call it “Expanding the District Knowledge Base.” The January topic was Results of the Al-Anon Sur-vey last year (August 2015 Forum). The February topic was Dealing with Difficult Members. For March the topic is Anonymity (December 2015 Forum). I am hopeful that some of this information works its way back to the indi-vidual groups and stimulates discussion.

Our district decided to purchase Al-Anon Faces Alcohol-ism pamphlets for distribution throughout the communi-ty (200 English, 100 Spanish).

We are also planning our first district workshop in years. It will be a writing workshop complete with stamped en-velopes to send the final products to several different Al-Anon publications asking for personal stories of recov-ery.After one full year as a group I can see the growth

and comfort level of our GRs. Each is eager to do his/her part within the district.

Love in Service

Kirk S., DR

District 40 Anza | Hemet | Idyllwild | Lake Elsinore | Murrieta | Sun City | Temecula | Winchester

I was just voted in as the District Rep for District 40 on February 11, 2016.

We are working on our Spring Fling which will be Sat-urday, April 9, 2016. The theme is “Let Go & Let God.” We have speakers lined up and we are busy putting together raffle baskets. The location is the Lamb’s Fellowship Church in Lake Elsinore, CA.

We are planning to celebrate Al-Anon’s 65th birthday at the Spring Fling as well.

We have the following positions open at the District level, Secretary, Alateen Liaison, Public Outreach as well as email outreach. Service to Al-Anon is the rent I pay for living today.

As my sponsor would say to me, “If we only gave back to Al-Anon in Service, just 10% of the focus and atten-tion we gave the alcoholic, we would all be in good standing”.

Respectfully submitted, Chris C., DR

District 42 Bermuda Dunes / Blythe / Cathedral City / Desert Center / Desert Hot Springs / Indian Wells / Indio / Joshua Tree / La Quinta / Palm Desert / Palm Springs / Rancho Mirage / Twenty-Nine Palms / Yuc-ca Valley

We have 25 meetings in English and 27-in Spanish, although only two contribute to the district in any way. We are working on bridging the gap.

Our district meetings draw an average of 20 voting members and many people show up just to hear what is going on.

We have newcomer’s meetings twice a week and a bimonthly Speaker meeting.

We have two Alateen meetings and will soon have two more. Many people are now going through the AMIAS certification process.

District 42 has an annual fundraiser, Heart to Heart, that this year happened February 13 and raised a

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good chunk of money – most of it from basket- sub-mitted-by-meetings raffle tickets. We have a website - http://www.alanoninthedesert.com/ and a Literature Distribution Center that serve as a place to get information and CAL but also to have meetings.

Ana R., DR

District 45 Culver City | Inglewood | Los Angeles | Mar Vista | San-ta Monica | Venice | Westchester

My report for District 45 is short. District 45 has many groups and is a very large district with low participation. We are reaching out to all groups who have a GR listed but not attending district meetings to attend the meetings and participate. We are reaching out to the many meetings who do not have a GR and encouraging them to have a volunteer to be the GR and participate. District 45 also has only two Alateen meetings in the dis-trict and we are reaching out to other Alateens, Al-Anons, AAs and other places such as schools to spread the word about Alateen. District 45 always receives a lot of financial support and donations for SCAC. We usually pay for several scholarships for the Alateens and pay a portion of the bus and donate some to the general fund. We had money left over from last year which will be used for SCAC this year. Public Outreach ordered 500 copies of the 2016 Al Anon Faces Alcoholism in English and in Spanish. GRs and the DR are distributing these at other meetings and locations in the community like hospitals and libraries. District 45 has meetings six times a year on the first Wednesday of every other odd month at 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Westchester. We meet in January, March, May, July, Sep-tember, and November. Please spread the word to any-one who would like to be involved in World Service Dis-trict 45. Thank you.

love in service, Shauna S.

District 48 Bell Gardens | Bellflower| Commerce | Compton | Cudahy | Downey | Huntington Park | Long Beach | Los Angeles | Lynwood | Maywood | Paramount | Signal Hill | South Gate | Wilmington

Our district continues in our public efforts to distribute copies of Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism as outreach to librar-ies, schools, churches and many other community ser-vices.

Our District 48 GRs and groups that are in the geograph-

ical area started a workshop on Knowledge Based De-cision Making.

Our District made donations four times a year at the branches of service.

We had the pleasure of having our Delegate Elizabeth come speak to us on March 29. All are welcome Grateful to be part of service! Socorro P., DR

District 51 Downey | Montebello | Pico Rivera | Santa Fe Springs | Whittier

Hello Everyone. District 51 has some good news and some bad news. We closed a meeting. We tried to save this meeting, but God is in charge and the writing on the wall was clear. However, we did open a new meeting in Santa Fe Springs. It seems to have strong start. We are grateful.

We are still researching into opening up an Alateen meeting, but are not sure of a good location within our district boundaries. We would prefer to attach this meeting with an existing Al-Anon meeting, but have still not decided which meeting would best suit our needs.

We are currently planning our next alathon, set for October. So far our committee is small, but the group is hard-working and feel confident that it can create something great for our event.

Earlier this year, our District paid for any Group Rep that wanted to attend the SOS in Glendale. Only 3 GRs took us up on the offer, but the result was great. Our next district meeting was packed with great discus-sion about what we learned at the SOS. We hope to make this a tradition, provided we have the funds.

We have 1 new AMIAS and continue to encourage more. Thanks for the service.

Sandra A., DR

District 54 Carson | El Segundo | Gardena | Haw-Thorne | Her-mosa Beach | Lomita | Manhattan Beach | Palos Verdes | Rancho Palos Verdes | Redondo Beach | Rolling Hills Estate | San Pedro | Torrance


District 57 Avalon | Bellflower | Cerritos | Lakewood | Long Beach | Los Alamitos | Paramount | Seal Beach | Signal Hill

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website. I plan to meet with our Treasurer to discuss a budget, which we hope to present at our next District meeting. During our meeting we also made gifts for our Delegate, Elizabeth K., to distribute at the upcom-ing World Service Conference. There’s also an exciting and dedicated committee planning our 6th Annual Dis-trict 60 Workshop “Conflict Resolution and Sponsor-ship” which will be held on Saturday, March 6. I will tell you all the wonderful results in the next Bulletin. I’m hoping to spend some time at our District meetings studying our Service Manual and the Con-cepts, including a time for questions and discussion. My theme for the group for the next three years is “Let’s have fun!” My goal is to have fun at our District meetings as well as helping the GRs become a valua-ble tool for their groups by familiarizing themselves with the Service Manual and Al-Anon literature, as it’s an important tool in our recovery. See you all at a meeting!

Corinna L District 60 Representative .

District 63 Fountain Valley| Garden Grove | Huntington Beach | Santa Ana | Seal Beach | Sunset Beach | Tustin Officers: DR-Gene; ADR-vacancy; Secretary-Graham; Treasurer-Anna; DAL-Heidi; OC Intergroup Liaison-Bill; Hospitali-ty- Susan

District meeting dates for 2016: January 23, April 23, July 23, October 22

2015/2016 budgets: 2015 year-end financials were not discussed at January district meeting because treasurer was unable to attend. 2016 budget will be discussed and approved at April 2016 meeting. Dis-trict will use 2015 budget as guide for operations until 2016 budget is approved. Treasurer will continue to track income and expenses and reimburse receipts for expenses.

Public Outreach Project: 150 copies of the WSO-approved poster were produced for $230 and given to district GRs to distribute to group members. There is interest in making the poster available to other Area districts; District will follow up this idea with Area Co-ordinator. CAL literature is being delivered to teachers and counselors associated with school districts in Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, and Tustin. A new ADR is being sought to oversee Public Outreach.

Alateen: District hosted AMIAS Recertification work-shop on Saturday, February 6, 2016, at Mesa Verde United Methodist Church, 1701 Baker St., Costa Mesa,

District 57 will be holding our Annual Alathon on Satur-day February 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Lakewood at Mayfair Park. The theme is the “Discovering Choices” Diner where several appetizing topics will be served up such as Changed Attitudes with a Helping of Humility, Acceptance with a side of Happiness, Perspective loaded with Compassion, and Willingness accompanied by En-thusiasm. We hope to see you there!

Our district continues in our Public Outreach efforts, providing speakers on a regular basis to recovery centers in our area. We have added a new recovery center through the Salvation Army where our members will par-ticipate as speakers in sharing their experience, strength, and hope to families affected by the disease of alcohol-ism.

Our Beginner’s meetings are continuing with members co-leading the six week series. Many newcomers contin-ue attending other Al-Anon meetings and share with co-leaders that they see how helpful the Beginner meeting series was to them.

We are also beginning to plan our 3rd Conflict Resolution Workshop which we plan to hold in June. More infor-mation will be coming out when a date and details are finalized.

Thank you for letting me be of service, Martha Z., DR

District 60 Anaheim | Brea | Buena Park | Cypress | Fullerton | La Habra | La Mirada | Orange | Placentia | Yorba Linda

Just started as DR this year and we had our first District meeting in February! Whew, glad that’s over. Still need to practice that “progress, not perfection” thing. We got off to a great start with every service position in the Dis-trict filled by members willing to be of service. As DR, I plan on visiting the meetings in our District, particularly those that have no GR representation. I have great sup-port from members who will be joining me and they re-mind me that, in this program, we don’t do anything alone. We also discussed where to go on the SCWS web-site to register as a GR and AGR. It’s very important as a GR to be in contact with SCWS regarding current activi-ties in Al-Anon. We have an item on the Agenda where we discuss group problems. We had great participation from all, as well as GRs providing solutions to those prob-lems. We had a discussion about reaching out through the media to bring the message of Al-Anon to those affected by someone’s drinking. This service is allowing me the opportunity to read literature I have never read, specifically a “How to do it, Service Tool for Public Out-reach Activities” which I downloaded from the members

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CA. Cathleen C. led the workshop. 15 AMIASs were recerti-fied representing 5 Area districts. GRs will begin collecting donations from groups for SCAC scholarships in April. The district will provide scholarships for District Alateens, one scholarship for the DAL to attend SCAC and $300 donation for the bus transportation. Extra funds will be turned over to the Area to support other Districts.

SOS: District provided a workshop on service at The Area SOS on Saturday, January 16. The workshop included a skit and a speaker panel based on CAL: When I got busy, I got better. District also contributed to hospitality at SOS.

Submitted by Gene T., DR

District 64 Overlays all of California South


District 66 Corona Del Mar | Costa MeSa | Dana Point | Irvine | La-guna Beach | Laguna Hills | Laguna Niguel | Laguna Woods | Lake Forest | Mission Viejo | Newport Beach | Rancho Santa Margarita | San Clemente | San Juan Ca-pistrano | South Laguna

This year we have added an educational component to our District Meetings and we are planning to share on a Tradi-tion and a Concept at every meeting. Every one present enjoyed the sharing on Tradition One and Concept One in our February meeting. Thank you to all who participated. It has been a great way to invite our Higher Power before getting into the topics of the business meeting.

We are pleased to announce that on October 5th the dis-trict will offer again a free workshop to outreach and offer our Experience, Strength and Hope in Al-Anon to the com-munity. We are also planning to offer an Alateen Recertifi-cation Workshop on the same day. More information will be available at the SCWS website and the Orange Blossom as the date gets near. Hope to see you there!!!.

Finally, we will be introducing other Outreach Projects through the year. Stay tuned!

Love in Service, Marilen H., D66

District 69

Carlsbad | Carmel Mt Ranch | Del Mar | Encinitas | Es-condido | Fallbrook | Oceanside | Poway | Ramona | Rancho Bernardo | Rancho Santa Fe | San Diego | San Marcos | Solana Beach | Solano Beach | Vista

Thank you to all our members for all your continued support. This year is the final year of your current officers and I encourage our district members to start thinking about stepping up their service. With all of your support in the past year, we were able to send our excess funds of over $5,200 to our service arms, and continue to support them, as suggested in our service manual.

This year we are planning a writing workshop in April, another "Together We Can Make it" Service workshop in May, as well as many more. We are continuing to hold Panel Meetings in meetings that are inviting us in. All panels discuss a tradition or concept. We are also discussing ideas about how to continue to carry the message, and public outreach, with ads on buses, billboards and posters being considered as well as other less expensive options, all keeping within our budget.

We have also been working on insuring that all meeting have a CMA (Current Mailing Address) email for every group. We have only 6 meetings with no email out of the 83 registered meeting in our district. If you happen to be one of the 6 groups with no email, please contact me, and I can help you with this, and explain it.

Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to be of service, to learn and grow so much.

In service, Andrea D., DR

District 72 Alpine | Bonita | Chula Vista | Coronado | El Cajon | Imperial Beach | La Mesa | Lemon Grove | San Diego | Santee | Spring Valley

No report submitted by this district.

District 75 Allied Gardens | Clairemont | Clairmont | Hillcrest | La Jolla | North Clairemont | Ocean Beach | Pacific Beach | Point Loma | San Carlos | San Diego | Tier-rasanta


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fundraising events this year. Please save these tenta-tive dates!

March Madness: March 19th Committee Weekend: April 15th-17th April Event: April 23rd Bash: May 13th-15th (tentatively) Last Chance Picnic: June 4th

These are tentative dates only. Once the individual Event Plans are approved, the required Permission & Medical Consent Forms, flyers and details for each event will be posted on the “Alateen Events” page of the SCWS web site. Please check the password pro-tected Alateen Events page for final locations, times and permission forms:

scws-al-anon.org

The dates for SCAC 2016 have not been set yet, I am currently in communication with the staff at proposed location.

In love and service, Angela, 2016 SCAC Chairman

SoCal AA Convention (SCAAC)

No report submitted by this convention chair.

Intergroup (AIS) Reports

Inland Empire Intergroup

No report was submitted by this Intergroup.

Spanish Intergroup (Serving Southern Cali-

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Ventura County Intergroup

No Report was submitted by this intergroup

Los Angeles AIS (Intergroup) (Los Angeles County except Greater Long Beach)

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AFG Convention Wow, it’s hard to believe that it’s already February 21st and the 40th Annual Southern California Al-Anon Fami-ly Groups Convention is just around the corner. We have a fun filled weekend planned for April 1st, 2nd and 3rd:

Fantastic speakers at our Saturday luncheon, Saturday evening banquet and Sunday breakfast and the food is not shabby either! I tasted it; and the vegetarian stuff is surprisingly good!

We also have planned meetings including marathon meetings in three different languages (English, Spanish and Alcoholic).

We have a boutique and hospitality rooms to explore and meet up with friends and/or make new friends. If you want to make donations or be of service at the boutique, contact Eric (see back of registration form for number). To make donations or be of service at the hospitality room, contact Frankie (See back of registra-tion form for number).

We have raffles, so if you feel lucky and wish to but tickets in advance or would like to donate a basket and/or be of service, contact Angie (see back of regis-tration form for number).

We also have our ways and means committee; you see them set up in the lobby. To be of service with this committee, contact Jim (see back of registration form for number).

Did I tell you that the time allotted for the discounted preregistration and the discounted package including registration, luncheon, banquet and breakfast is quickly coming to an end? To take advantage of these deals go to www.afgconvention.org and either register online or download an AFG registration form and send it snail mail. You can also get to our webpage by going to the SCWS website, or either LA and Orange County Central Offices.

So come and celebrate your recovery at the 2016-AFG Convention and remember: “Just for Today, I will enjoy Life”.

Love in Service, John W., 2016 AFG Chairperson Email: [email protected]

Southern California Alateen Conference (SCAC) The 2016 SCAC sponsors are Matthew M, Nancy W, and Jerry “Bear”. Sean is my co-chair, and together we have picked our committee. We also had our annual turno-ver meeting where we picked all of the dates for the


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participants for registration deadlines have been dis-tributed. Virginia M.

Suggested Al-Anon Preamble to the Twelve Steps

The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of rela-tives and friends of alcoholics who share their experi-ence, strength, and hope in order to solve their com-mon problems. We believe alcoholism is a family ill-ness and that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Al-Anon is not allied with any sect, denomination, po-litical entity, organization, or institution; does not en-gage in any controversy; neither endorses nor oppos-es any cause. There are no dues for membership. Al-Anon is self-supporting through its own voluntary con-tributions. Al-Anon has but one purpose: to help families of alco-holics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps, by welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcohol-ics, and by giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic.

Acronyms Used in Al-Anon/Alateen

AFG Al-Anon Family Groups AIS Al-Anon Information Service AMIAS Al-Anon Members Involved in Alateen Service AWSA Area World Service Assembly AWSC Area World Service Committee CAL Conference Approved Literature DAL District Alateen Liaison DR District Representative GR Group Representative (WS) GSO General Service Office (countries except for US, Canada, Puerto Rico and Bermuda) H & I Hospitals and Institutions IR/ISR Intergroup Information Service Rep PI Public Information PO Public Outreach PSA Public Service Announcement SCAC Southern Calif. Alateen Conference SCWS Southern Calif. World Service SOS Sharing of Service WS World Service WSO World Service Office

have also contracted an Al-Anon member as our new bookkeeper, Lynn T. We are very grateful for the contin-ued support of the many volunteers who fill book orders, stock the shelves, and most importantly, take twelfth step calls.

Unfortunately, Dodi was recently hospitalized with a sud-den illness but she is now recovering at her home. We hope to have her back at her desk in April. In the mean-time, our new chair, Natalie T., who was installed last month, is helping at the office and making sure we have adequate volunteers to meet our needs.

Our fundraiser was very successful, providing both an evening of fun and fellowship as well as additional mon-eys to our coffers. I am happy to report that this fund-raiser along with the generous contributions of the groups and the diligence of the 2015 service board have kept us on sound financial footing. We were able to add $10,000 to our prudent reserve this past year.

Additional motions passed by the 2015 service board in-cluded adding signage to our front window stating office contact information, obtaining a fictitious business name, “Al-Anon Family Groups of Greater Los Angeles”, and creating a thought-force to update our website, making it more user-friendly as well as mobile-friendly, which we expect to be completed this year. Love in service, Eddie D. Ex-officio, 2016 Los Angeles Intergroup Service Board

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San Diego Intergroup

The intergroup is working on simplifying the training pro-gram for volunteers. There is a concern about how much time it takes for registering a new Alateen meeting.

There continues to be issues around the AMIAS recertifi-cation process. Two positions remain open: Historian/Nominations and North County Institutions. Position re-lated emails have been created so the position infor-mation can be transferred over to the next person. Insti-tutions is reaching out to the Coast Guard to coordinate efforts to support the facilitator who helps with Military Substance abuse. Public Outreach went to the Ramona Reservation and Held an Al-Anon meeting for a special event, it was at an outside campfire. La Maestra wanted participation on February 19th. There is discussion about creating a web master position. January financials were good. SWDRM is coming to San Diego. Volunteers and

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going to improve in our household, my husband and I separat-ed and later were divorced. Tough as things were trying to cope with raising five angry kids on my own, we not only sur-vived, but we thrived. Sometime later, I married a wonderful man who also hap-pened to be a member of Al-Anon. We were all very happy. The children loved him; they grew up and became fine young adults, and all went relatively well for quite a few years. How-ever, my husband became ill and was eventually wheelchair bound. It was such a great gift that we both had a program to live by and we kept that in mind. So often, when things were really difficult, we would use the slogans to guide us and en-courage us. The little bookmark Just for Today (M-10) was also so helpful; we often quoted, “I can do something for 12 hours that would appall me if I felt I had to keep it up for a lifetime.” My husband required care around the clock, and I had not been able to attend meetings. Friends in the program would occasionally come to our home and hold a meeting for us, and these meetings were a Godsend. Eventually my husband died, and I was faced with yet another challenge: how to go on with my life. It was a brand new expe-rience to have no one to care for except myself—and it was scary! One of the first things I did was to go back to my Al-Anon meetings. It was as if they were waiting for me! This brings me to the question I mentioned at the beginning: Why do I still go to those meetings? The biggest reason is that I’m still alive and I never want to forget all the lessons I’ve learned in the program. It is truly a program for living. Also, once in a while I hear a real gem that is shared that stays with me, and I don’t want to miss those little pearls of wisdom. Last but not least, what would happen if there were no one to greet the newcomer who is hurting, needs encouragement, and someone to say, “You’re in the right place”? I’ll never for-get the feeling when I was a newcomer and a member sat me down, put her arm around my shoulder, and brought me a cup of coffee. Someone was there for me. Can I do less?

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WORLD SERVICE INC GROUP CONTRIBUTIONS

January through March 2016

District Date Receipt No Group Name Group No Amount %

D03 03/14/2016 5177 Arroyo Grande - Open Hearts AFG 30527684 30.00

D03 03/02/2016 5119 Atascadero - Monday Nite AFG 683 683 45.00

D03 02/10/2016 5036 Cayucos - Monday Morning AFG 32748 150.00

D03 01/26/2016 4959 Lompoc - Serenity AFG Mon 7 pm 1109 58.28

D03 01/21/2016 4929 Orcutt - Tuesday Evening Serenity AFG 1659 25.00

D03 01/26/2016 4966 Orcutt - Tuesday Evening Serenity AFG 1659 9.00

D03 03/02/2016 5114 Paso Robles - Tuesday Noon AFG 30534057 30.00

D03 03/02/2016 5125 Pismo Beach - Pathways To Serenity 30649429 86.00

D03 03/30/2016 5233 Pismo Beach - Women's Serenity Al-Anon 43977 40.00

D03 01/21/2016 4904 Solvang - Friday Morning Easy Does It 1702 25.00

D03 Total 498.28 3.05%

D06 02/22/2016 5080 Bakersfield - Serenity on Sunday 30505678 30.00

D06 01/21/2016 4899 Bakersfield - Stockdale Serenity AFG 36808 20.00

D06 01/12/2016 4798 Tehachapi - Monday Night AFG 064595 10.00

D03 Total 498.28 3.05%

D06 02/22/2016 5080 Bakersfield - Serenity on Sunday 30505678 30.00

D06 01/21/2016 4899 Bakersfield - Stockdale Serenity AFG 36808 20.00

D06 01/12/2016 4798 Tehachapi - Monday Night AFG 064595 10.00

D06 Total 60.00 0.37%

D08 02/03/2016 4974 Goleta - AFG Friday Morning 41540 18.00

D08 01/21/2016 4911 Montecito - Easy Does It Noon 54447 33.00

D08 02/10/2016 5004 Santa Barbara - How Al-Anon Works 53953 6.38

D08 01/21/2016 4884 Santa Barbara - Keep Coming Back 29412 6.90

D08 01/21/2016 4910 Santa Barbara - Mesa AFG 30532428 30.13

D08 02/17/2016 5057 Santa Barbara - Sunday Serenity Discussio 1639 30.00

D08 03/02/2016 5115 Santa Barbara - Sunday Serenity Discussio 1639 30.00

D08 01/13/2016 4857 Santa Barbara - Tell It Like It Is Sat 30639750 28.23

D08 03/08/2016 5149 Unknown Meeting D08 40.00

D08 Total 222.64 1.36%

D09 01/21/2016 4933 Canyon Country - Monday Night Beginners 36683 25.74



D09 01/26/2016 4956 Lancaster - Sunday AFG 501048 30.00

D09 01/21/2016 4891 Newhall - Wednesday Nite 47916 12.74

D09 03/30/2016 5237 Palmdale - Un Nuevo Amanecer 65518 20.00

D09 02/03/2016 4995 Saugus - Monday Night Tradition 5 Parent 30617692 124.13

D09 03/14/2016 5172 Saugus - Thurs 630 PM Step/Tradition 42761 25.00



D09 Total 320.78 1.96%

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D10 01/21/2016 4928 Hesperia - Hijos Adultos En Hesperia 30638713 20.00

D10 01/26/2016 4950 Hesperia - Love & Friendship 65124 20.00

D10 01/21/2016 4898 Phelan - Phelan AFG 54782 20.00

D10 01/13/2016 4845 Victorville - Serenity for Lunch 63736 20.00

D10 Total 80.00 0.49%

D12 03/08/2016 5148 Agoura Hills - Tuesday Night We're Here 64865 38.00

D12 02/01/2016 5077 Camarillo - Courage to Change AFG 43526 10.00

D12 03/14/2016 5174 Camarillo - Men's Stag 30502484 25.00

D12 03/30/2016 5232 Camarillo - Paths to Recovery Step Study 42172 30.00

D12 03/14/2016 5164 Camarillo - Wednesday 7PM 62947 10.00

D12 03/02/2016 5093 Ojai - Stepping Through Step Study 65161 15.00

D12 02/17/2016 5073 Santa Paula - Saturday Morning 4th Step 41538 12.00

D12 03/14/2016 5186 Thousand Oaks - Wed Parents AFG 30637236 51.00

D12 01/13/2016 4849 Ventura - Friday Afternoon AFG 1230 PM 50500 20.00

D12 03/23/2016 5200 Ventura - Friday Afternoon AFG 1230 PM 50500 20.00

D12 03/30/2016 5224 Ventura - Courage To Change Parent Meet-in 30654513 17.00

D12 02/10/2016 5006 Ventura - The Heart Warmers AFG 30567918 10.00

D12 02/03/2016 4968 Ventura - Tuesday Afternoon 130 PM 64141 5.00

D12 02/03/2016 4969 Ventura - Wedneday Night 730 pm 1799 10.00

D12 03/08/2016 5146 Westlake Village - Conejo Valley Men's 30578505 30.00

D12 03/23/2016 5207 Westlake Village - Thursday Men's Stag 60 502576 60.00

D12 02/03/2016 4996 Westlake Village - Tradition Five Parent 30531749 165.00

D12 03/14/2016 5190 Westlake Village - Women's Literature 30599574 87.50

D12 Total 615.50 3.77%

D17 03/14/2016 5196 Agoura Hills - Sunday AFG 30611366 51.00

D17 02/03/2016 4971 Encino - Have Al-Anon Will Grow 64469 10.52










D17 02/10/2016 5026 Encino - Monday Night Literature 50014 37.20

D17 03/08/2016 5132 Encino - Thursday Live & Let Live 7PM 63426 3.00

D17 03/08/2016 5133 Encino - Thursday Live & Let Live 7PM 63426 4.00

D17 03/30/2016 5236 Granada Hills - Monday Night AFG 30534687 105.00

D17 03/14/2016 5181 Granada Hills - Recovery Is For Men AFG 30659780 40.00

D17 01/12/2016 4827 Northridge - Northridge 4th Step Study 53521 50.00

D17 03/02/2016 5123 Woodland Hills - Fear to Serenity Parents 30630549 60.00

D17 01/12/2016 4832 Woodland Hills - The No Frills Women's 30652157 81.88

D17 01/13/2016 4863 Woodland Hills - Wed Night Parent Focus 503581 40.00

D17 03/08/2016 5150 Woodland Hills - Women's Action 1842 40.00

D17 Total 784.31 4.80%

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D21 02/17/2016 5067 North Hollywood - Keep The Focus On Me 30523337 115.50

D21 01/21/2016 4903 North Hollywood - Circula de Ganadores 60303 25.00

D21 03/14/2016 5175 North Hollywood - Circula de Ganadores 60303 25.00

D21 02/17/2016 5046 North Hollywood - Easy Does It 50275 15.00

D21 01/26/2016 4958 North Hollywood - Hope for Today 815AM 500515 53.50

D21 01/13/2016 4854 North Hollywood - Parents Focus 502996 27.38

D21 01/26/2016 4955 North Hollywood - Wake Up and Smell 62942 29.42

D21 01/12/2016 4818 Studio City - Sunday 4:30 PM Women's 30558101 27.30

D21 02/10/2016 5035 Van Nuys - Live and Let Live 502106 113.00

D21 Total 431.10 2.64%

D24 03/08/2016 5157 Burbank - Saturday am AFG 66931 108.44

D24 01/12/2016 4828 Burbank - Tuesday Night 730 pm 740 50.00

D24 01/21/2016 4914 Glendale - Monday Night AFG 970 36.00

D24 02/03/2016 5002 La Canada - AFG 48985 67.38

D24 02/03/2016 5003 La Canada - AFG 48985 110.62

D24 01/12/2016 4835 La Canada - Parents Group 1030 AM 51517 400.00

D24 01/12/2016 4833 La Canada - Thursday Afternoon Step Study 1053 114.60

D24 03/02/2016 5101 La Canada - Thursday Afternoon Step Study 1053 20.00

D24 01/12/2016 4806 La Canada - Tuesday 1230 pm AFG 1052 18.42

D24 01/12/2016 4822 La Canada - Wed Step Study 730PM 1054 32.00

D24 02/10/2016 5033 Montrose - Saturday 9AM Step & Tradition 48986 68.02


D24 Total 1,050.43 6.43%

D27 03/02/2016 5126 Beverly Hills - Tuesday Noon Meeting 48228 163.00

D27 01/13/2016 4874 Brentwood - Men's Tuesday Night 29678 175.10

D27 01/26/2016 4944 Los Angeles - Courage to Change 30552962 10.00

D27 01/12/2016 4823 Los Angeles - Easy Does It LGBT 65672 36.44

D27 02/10/2016 5031 Los Angeles - Easy Monday AFG 30564433 61.05

D27 01/13/2016 4881 Los Angeles - Fear to Faith Los Feliz AFG 66793 133.00

D27 02/22/2016 5082 Los Angeles - Fear to Faith Los Feliz AFG 66793 92.00

D27 03/24/2016 5215 Los Angeles - Living With Sobriety 1173 80.00

D27 01/12/2016 4831 Los Angeles - Practicing These Principles 66184 71.44

D27 02/03/2016 4988 Los Angeles - Step Into the Back Room 30621302 43.02

D27 02/17/2016 5054 Los Angeles - Sunday Morning AFG 42842 22.70

D27 03/30/2016 5226 Los Angeles - Sunday Morning AFG 42842 20.00

D27 01/26/2016 4957 Los Angeles - Survival to Recovery 30620243 48.00

D27 03/30/2016 5230 Los Angeles - Westwood Noon Tuesday 30582124 25.00

D27 01/21/2016 4937 Malibu - Monday 1230 pm 24150 440.00

D27 01/21/2016 4936 Pacific Palisades - Courage To Change 30648089 298.20

D27 01/13/2016 4868 Pacific Palisades - Slogans AFG 63023 56.00





D27 Total 2,021.30 12.37%

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D30 02/03/2016 4989 Alhambra - Wednesday Morning Discussion 651 47.90

D30 01/12/2016 4804 Eagle Rock - Women's Meeting AFG 30594099 18.00

D30 01/13/2016 4882 Eagle Rock - Women's Meeting AFG 30594099 18.00

D30 03/08/2016 5140 El Monte - Sierra Madre Third Saturday Sp 44514 18.40

D30 01/26/2016 4962 Highland Park - Highland Park AFG 46915 126.35

D30 01/12/2016 4820 Pasadena - Sunday 730PM 1357 30.50

D30 03/02/2016 5100 Pasadena - Wednesday Night AFG 30561911 20.00

D30 01/13/2016 4878 San Gabriel - Tuesday Night 1588 24.00

D30 03/02/2016 5121 San Gabriel - Tuesday Night 1588 58.80

D30 03/02/2016 5097 San Marino - Saturday Night 30667845 15.00

D30 Total 376.95 2.31%

D33 03/02/2016 5088 Claremont - Wednesday 4th Step Writers 30617973 10.00

D33 01/21/2016 4889 Claremont - Wednesday Night AFG 30617973 10.00

D33 02/10/2016 5020 Covina - Living in the Solution 500806 25.00

D33 03/02/2016 5117 Covina - Living in the Solution 500806 37.50

D33 01/26/2016 4949 Covina - Newcomer Orientation 0000821 20.00

D33 03/30/2016 5222 Covina - Newcomer Orientation 0000821 10.00

D33 03/23/2016 5212 Covina - Saturday AM Literature Study 60035 7.50

D33 02/10/2016 5010 Covina - Wed Night Step Study AFG 40529 15.00

D33 03/23/2016 5203 Glendora - Monday Night Glendora Meeting 979 30.00

D33 03/14/2016 5180 Glendora - Thursday Girls Night Out AFG 501119 37.50

D33 02/17/2016 5049 West Covina - Men's Stag 730 1824 20.00

D33 01/12/2016 4800 West Covina - Tuesday Night Book Study 54450 10.61

D33 03/08/2016 5134 West Covina - Tuesday Night Book Study 54450 8.00

D33 Total 241.11 1.48%

D36 01/21/2016 4932 Claremont - Thursday Night Men's Meeting 30578701 23.00

D36 03/30/2016 5228 La Verne - Monday Serenity AFG 50540 20.10

D36 02/10/2016 5017 Pomona - Monday Morning Serenity Group 1388 20.12

D36 03/08/2016 5142 Pomona - Monday Morning Serenity Group 1388 20.00

D36 01/21/2016 4909 Upland - Tuesday Night Changing Format 47714 30.00

D36 Total 113.22 0.69%

D39 01/26/2016 4942 Colton - Tuesday Morn AFG 793 7.50

D39 02/10/2016 5005 Colton - Tuesday Morn AFG 793 7.50

D39 01/21/2016 4892 Corona - How Al-Anon Works - Mon 7 PM 42057 13.00



D39 03/02/2016 5102 Corona - Tuesday Night Made a Decision 806 20.00

D39 01/12/2016 4817 Norco - Noon Lunchable 500411 27.20

D39 02/10/2016 5014 Rialto - One Day At A Time Wednesday 1445 20.00

D39 01/26/2016 4947 Riverside - As We Understood 62948 18.90

D39 02/03/2016 4982 Riverside - Wednesday Night Al-Anon 1461 30.00

D39 Total 195.35 1.20%

D40 01/13/2016 4851 Lake Elsinore - Principles Above Personal 30558099 25.00

D40 03/14/2016 5166 Lake Elsinore - Principles Above Personal 30558099 15.00

D40 01/21/2016 4895 Murrieta - Hope for Today 30531203 19.50

D40 01/21/2016 4927 Temecula - Progress Not Perfection 630 PM 65359 15.00

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D40 03/02/2016 5105 Temecula - Rise and Shine AFG 30623990 22.50

D40 Total 97.00 0.59%

D41 01/21/2016 4926 Temple City - Tuesday 10 AM 1741 11.80

D41 Total 11.80 0.07%

D42 02/10/2016 5030 Bermuda Dunes - Friday Noon Courage 52240 51.12

D42 02/10/2016 5023 Indian Wells - How Al-Anon Works 60124 30.30

D42 03/08/2016 5155 Indian Wells - How Al-Anon Works 60124 54.00

D42 01/26/2016 4964 Indio - Unidad Y Armonia 30562407 28.50

D42 02/17/2016 5072 Palm Desert - Desert Cities Parents 30564705 7.50



D42 01/13/2016 4853 Palm Desert - Discovering Choices 30559574 27.00



D42 03/02/2016 5085 Palm Desert - From Survival To Recovery 30656037 6.00




D42 03/02/2016 5107 Palm Desert - Hope for Today 30533315 25.00

D42 03/30/2016 5221 Palm Desert - Hope for Today 30533315 10.00

D42 01/21/2016 4885 Palm Desert - Just for Today Wednesday 30591610 7.00

D42 02/17/2016 5043 Palm Desert - Just for Today Wednesday 30591610 5.00

D42 02/10/2016 5021 Palm Desert - Tuesday Night Sharing 1405 28.87



D42 01/21/2016 4906 Palm Desert - Women's Noon AFG 30555014 28.00



D42 01/13/2016 4843 Palm Springs - Paths To Recovery Saturday 61960 18.45



D42 02/10/2016 5028 Palm Springs - Reaching for Personal 30631487 44.47

D42 02/17/2016 5051 Palm Springs - Tuesday High Noon 62013 20.00

D42 02/10/2016 5032 Palm Springs - Wed Night AFG Discussion 60635 63.60

D42 01/22/2016 4939 Yucca Valley - Women of Recovery 500442 10.00

D42 Total 858.06 5.25%

D45 01/13/2016 4872 Culver City - Monday Nite Parents Group 30510647 100.00

D45 03/02/2016 5109 Culver City - Wednesday 730 pm 30665 25.35

D45 02/22/2016 5079 Inglewood - In All Our Affairs 40844 25.98

D45 02/22/2016 5081 Inglewood - In All Our Affairs 40844 45.50

D45 01/21/2016 4919 Los Angeles - Parents Seeking Serenity 30619765 58.08

D45 02/03/2016 4992 Santa Monica - 4th & 5th Step Writing 1663 75.00

D45 01/13/2016 4839 Santa Monica - MWF 735 AM 33829 10.00



D45 01/26/2016 4948 Santa Monica - Tuesday Morning AFG 61784 19.00


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D45 01/13/2016 4873 Westchester - Saturday 10AM ODAT 50442 145.75

D45 02/03/2016 4977 Westchester - Stepped Up Group 46821 20.69

D45 03/02/2016 5130 Westchester - Stepped Up Group 46821 29.01

D45 Total 897.78 5.50%

D51 01/13/2016 4855 Whittier - Saturday Morning 9AM 50442 28.00

D51 01/21/2016 4934 Whittier - Saturday Morning 9AM 50442 150.00

D51 01/21/2016 4917 Whittier - Thursday AM AFG 1832 42.00

D51 Total 220.00 1.35%

D54 01/22/2016 4938 El Segundo - Hour of Recovery 503768 22.50

D54 02/10/2016 5024 El Segundo - Hour of Recovery 503768 32.00

D54 01/13/2016 4861 El Segundo - Tuesday Nite Conscious 51035 33.68

D54 03/23/2016 5204 El Segundo - Tuesday Nite Conscious 51035 31.19

D54 03/14/2016 5189 Gardena - Gardena Saturday Morning Step 39919 75.00

D54 02/17/2016 5044 Hawthorne - Recuperacion GFA 30514549 10.00

D54 03/14/2016 5165 Hermosa Beach - Happy & Humble Monday 30607080 11.25

D54 03/30/2016 5235 Hermosa Beach - Saturday 10AM AFG 1420 75.00

D54 01/21/2016 4925 Hermosa Beach - Thursday Afternoon Har- 65307 129.60

D54 01/21/2016 4886 Manhattan Beach - Start Your Day Right 30634750 9.00

D54 02/10/2016 5029 Manhattan Beach - Steps to Serenity 32292 50.00

D54 03/02/2016 5095 Palos Verdes - Friday Afternoon 1PM 1406 15.00

D54 02/03/2016 4993 Palos Verdes - Parent Group 43570 80.71



D54 01/21/2016 4924 Palos Verdes - Peninsula Hilltoppers 1408 87.50

D54 01/26/2016 4961 Palos Verdes - Peninsula Hilltoppers 1408 60.00

D54 03/08/2016 5154 Redondo Beach - South Bay Mamas And 30660692 50.00

D54 01/13/2016 4869 San Pedro - Women's AFG 63496 56.25

D54 01/13/2016 4870 Torrance - Back to Basics AFG 1754 60.00

D54 01/12/2016 4814 Torrance - Del Amo Orientation AFG 1752 25.00

D54 01/21/2016 4915 Torrance - Podium Participation 26781 40.00

D54 01/21/2016 4920 Torrance - Podium Participation 26781 60.00

D54 01/12/2016 4815 Torrance - Saturday Morning Walteria 54893 25.88

D54 02/10/2016 5018 Torrance - Thursday 10 am 1756 21.00

D54 Total 1,182.77 7.24%

D57 02/03/2016 4991 Bellflower - Sunday Afternoon 130 PM 713 60.00

D57 01/12/2016 4805 Cerritos - New Way of Life 769 18.18



D57 03/02/2016 5122 Long Beach - Friday Noon 65437 60.00

D57 01/13/2016 4859 Long Beach - Saturday Morning Group 62772 30.00

D57 03/08/2016 5152 Long Beach - Tuesday Morning 30521517 48.00

D57 03/24/2016 5214 Long Beach - Tuesday Morning 30521517 40.00

D57 01/21/2016 4923 Long Beach - Tuesday Morning Road To Reco 62772 70.00

D57 03/23/2016 5210 Long Beach - Tuesday Morning Road To Reco 62772 69.00

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D57 01/12/2016 4811 Los Alamitos - Parents Meeting 30589578 20.00

D57 03/02/2016 5131 Los Alamitos - Parents Meeting 30589578 30.00

D57 03/14/2016 5163 Los Alamitos - Saturday Afternoon AFG 30509033 10.00

D57 01/12/2016 4816 Los Alamitos - Tuesday Night Paths 30515689 26.70

D57 02/10/2016 5012 Los Alamitos - Tuesday Night Paths 30515689 18.76

D57 03/14/2016 5176 Seal Beach - Monday Night In & Out Step 30516645 30.00

D57 Total 576.50 3.53%

D60 02/10/2016 5027 Buena Park - Friday 730PM 733 37.50

D60 02/03/2016 5000 Buena Park - Thursday Night Al-Anon 23971 25.00

D60 03/02/2016 5087 Fullerton - Literature Study AFG 30595954 10.00

D60 01/12/2016 4824 Fullerton - Monday Night AFG 730 PM 41921 42.34

D60 03/30/2016 5234 Fullerton - Monday Night AFG 730 PM 41921 40.00

D60 01/21/2016 4902 Fullerton - Wed 1230 PM AFG 954 25.00

D60 03/23/2016 5202 Fullerton - Wed 1230 PM AFG 954 30.00

D60 01/12/2016 4810 Placentia - Monday Evening 1372 20.00

D60 01/12/2016 4830 Yorba Linda - Monday 10 AM 31730 60.00



D60 02/17/2016 5045 Yorba Linda - Serenity Seekers Al-Anon 1844 13.00

D60 03/14/2016 5179 Yorba Linda - Serenity Seekers Al-Anon 1844 32.50

D60 01/21/2016 4883 Yorba Linda - Tuesday Evening Men's Stag 37360 5.00

D60 02/03/2016 4978 Yorba Linda - Tuesday Night AFG 66240 22.23

D60 03/30/2016 5223 Yorba Linda - Tuesday Night AFG 66240 14.00

D60 Total 406.57 2.49%

D63 01/12/2016 4809 Santa Ana - AFG at Santa Ana Kaiser 1773 20.00

D63 01/13/2016 4841 Fountain Valley - Tuesday Aladay 912 13.00

D63 03/02/2016 5113 Huntington Beach - Fireside Wednesday 1026 30.00

D63 01/13/2016 4867 Huntington Beach - Monday Morning Attitud 54626 54.00

D63 03/02/2016 5110 Huntington Beach - Monday Morning Attitud 54626 28.40

D63 01/13/2016 4856 Huntington Beach - Monday Night Fogcutter 1029 28.00

D63 03/08/2016 5147 Huntington Beach - Monday Night Fogcutter 1029 34.00

D63 03/14/2016 5188 Huntington Beach - Thursday 100 PM 1028 62.74

D63 02/03/2016 4983 Huntington Beach - Tuesday Nite Men's 47437 35.00

D63 03/14/2016 5169 Huntington Beach - Tuesday Nite Men's 47437 20.00

D63 02/03/2016 4976 Orange - Friday Noon 1304 20.00

D63 01/26/2016 4953 Orange - Meeting of Hope AFG 45065 22.10



D63 02/10/2016 5007 Orange - Tuesday Night Candle Lite 64861 10.00

D63 01/13/2016 4842 Orange - Womens Tuesday Meeting 64306 18.00



D63 01/26/2016 4965 Tustin - Monday Night Sharing 1770 29.00

D63 03/14/2016 5162 Tustin - Monday Night Sharing 1770 8.00

D63 01/12/2016 4825 Tustin - Parents Hope for Today 30508020 43.00



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D63 Total 720.69 4.41%

D64 01/21/2016 4888 Santa Ana - Grupo Renacimiento 30536379 10.00

D64 01/13/2016 4877 Anaheim - Un Nuevo Amanecer Al-Anon 502633 20.00

D64 03/23/2016 5213 Buena Park - Mi Nueva Vida 54134 10.00

D64 01/21/2016 4890 El Monte - El Nuevo Horizonte GFA 45872 10.00

D64 03/02/2016 5090 El Monte - El Nuevo Horizonte GFA 45872 10.00

D64 03/08/2016 5137 El Monte - Hijos Adultos Encontrando Equi 30630579 10.00

D64 01/13/2016 4864 Encinitas - Wed. Night Step Study 63328 41.31

D64 03/14/2016 5170 Los Angeles - Amor Incondicional AFG 66519 20.00

D64 03/24/2016 5219 Los Angeles - Otro Comienza AFG 61968 20.00

D64 01/13/2016 4876 Los Angeles - Semillas de Esperanza 502341 20.00

D64 02/10/2016 5015 Pacoima - Aprendiendo Amarnos 502033 20.00

D64 03/08/2016 5143 Pacoima - Aprendiendo Amarnos 502033 20.00

D64 01/13/2016 4875 Pacoima - Serenidad GFA 30630404 20.00



D64 03/02/2016 5086 Pico Rivera - Arcoiris 503453 10.00

D64 03/30/2016 5220 Pico Rivera - Arcoiris 503453 10.00

D64 03/14/2016 5178 Pico Rivera - Nueva Vida 62616 30.00

D64 02/03/2016 4997 Pomona - Despertar GFA 66050 20.00



D64 02/10/2016 5011 Rialto - De La Supervivencia 30510615 15.00

D64 02/01/2016 5076 Sylmar - Pasos De Esperanza GFA 502690 40.00

D64 01/12/2016 4799 Tustin - Experienca Espiritual 30508953 10.00


D64 Total 452.31 2.77%

D66 03/14/2016 5198 Corona Del Mar - Men's Stag Attitude 29128 207.60

D66 01/13/2016 4838 Corona Del Mar - Tuesday 7 PM 44101 6.00



D66 01/26/2016 4946 Costa Mesa - Break Away 500486 15.00

D66 03/14/2016 5160 Costa Mesa - Grand Parent Focus 30582029 4.00

D66 03/02/2016 5116 Costa Mesa - Let it Begin with Me 61151 31.75

D66 02/01/2016 5078 Costa Mesa - Monday Night AFG 30511150 38.00

D66 03/24/2016 5216 Costa Mesa - Monday Night Step 30511150 80.00

D66 01/13/2016 4847 Costa Mesa - Wednesday Night AFG 61631 20.00

D66 02/10/2016 5013 Dana Point - 12 Stepping on Tuesdays 64893 20.00

D66 01/12/2016 4803 Irvine - Sunday Night AFG 45275 16.68



D66 01/13/2016 4850 Laguna Beach - AFG Friday Night Canyon 30567899 25.00

D66 02/17/2016 5047 Laguna Beach - Saturday AM Step Study 51094 15.00

D66 01/21/2016 4921 Laguna HIlls - Monday Noon 1058 63.30

D66 01/13/2016 4837 Laguna Hills - Wed 100 PM Meeting 66665 5.00

D66 01/21/2016 4935 Laguna Niguel - Friday AFG 39918 50.00

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D66 01/21/2016 4922 Laguna Niguel - Literature Study AFG 30542168 69.30

D66 02/17/2016 5064 Lake Forest - Friday Step Study 500666 62.68

D66 01/22/2016 4940 Mission Viejo - Parents Meeting 30563190 74.38

D66 01/21/2016 4916 Mission Viejo - Saddle Back Valley AFG 493555 40.00


D66 02/10/2016 5037 Newport Beach - Come Saturday Morning 63876 282.41

D66 01/22/2016 4941 Newport Beach - Unique Lives Common Exper 63876 42.20

D66 02/17/2016 5066 Newport Beach - Women In Recovery 30560896 86.25

D66 02/10/2016 5025 Rancho Santa Margarita - Monday Meet 503697 36.55

D66 01/21/2016 4918 San Clemente - Friday Morning 930 30544245 50.00

D66 01/21/2016 4913 San Juan Capistrano - Monday Morning 30579210 33.60

D66 03/02/2016 5108 San Juan Capistrano - Thur 10AM 1578 25.00



D66 Total 1,630.12 9.98%

D69 01/21/2016 4897 Carlsbad - Experience, Strength & Hope 64594 20.00

D69 01/12/2016 4819 Carlsbad - Into the Solution 500883 27.68

D69 03/14/2016 5197 Carlsbad - La Costa Live & Let Live 66281 60.00

D69 01/12/2016 4813 Carlsbad - Loving Traditions 65399 25.00

D69 02/10/2016 5034 Carlsbad - Monday Noon AFG 64304 79.17

D69 01/13/2016 4852 Carlsbad - North County Men's AFG 30531792 25.00


D69 01/21/2016 4905 Carlsbad - Sunset Step Study 65525 26.00

D69 03/24/2016 5217 Del Mar - Lunch Bunch AFG 48408 6.70

D69 01/12/2016 4829 Del Mar - Courage to Change Fri. AM 501479 53.00

D69 01/26/2016 4954 Del Mar - Tuesday Early Birds AFG 50721 22.47

D69 01/21/2016 4912 Del Mar - Working the Steps. 66846 33.55

D69 02/17/2016 5075 Encinitas - Moonlight Bch Just for Today 64413 20.00

D69 01/13/2016 4840 Escondido - Monday Open Topic 30548251 16.60

D69 02/17/2016 5048 Escondido - Back to Basics AFG 63269 18.00

D69 01/13/2016 4848 Fallbrook - One Day At A Timers Wed AFG 64927 20.00

D69 03/24/2016 5218 Oceanside - Book Study Thurs. 30640634 10.00

D69 01/21/2016 4894 Oceanside - Footprints in the Sand 37595 15.00

D69 01/12/2016 4834 Oceanside - Saturday Morning Discussion 61150 59.00

D69 02/17/2016 5062 Poway - New Beginnings 65751 50.00

D69 01/12/2016 4821 Rancho Penasquitos - Just For Today AFG 45691 31.35



D69 02/03/2016 4972 Rancho Santa Fe - Lunch Bunch 63513 11.60


D69 01/26/2016 4952 San Marcos - San Marcos Noon AFG 30648324 20.86

D69 01/21/2016 4896 Solana Beach - Miracle In Progress 61605 20.00

D69 02/03/2016 4973 Solana Beach - Monday Morning Step 502817 17.55

D69 01/13/2016 4844 Solana Beach - Thursday Sunnyside-Up 48686 19.00

D69 01/12/2016 4796 Solana Beach - Tuesday Morning Literature 502540 7.96

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D66 01/21/2016 4922 Laguna Niguel - Literature Study AFG 30542168 69.30

D66 02/17/2016 5064 Lake Forest - Friday Step Study 500666 62.68

D66 01/22/2016 4940 Mission Viejo - Parents Meeting 30563190 74.38



D66 02/10/2016 5037 Newport Beach - Come Saturday Morning 63876 282.41

D66 01/22/2016 4941 Newport Beach - Unique Lives Common Exper 63876 42.20

D66 02/17/2016 5066 Newport Beach - Women In Recovery 30560896 86.25

D66 02/10/2016 5025 Rancho Santa Margarita - Monday Meet 503697 36.55

D66 01/21/2016 4918 San Clemente - Friday Morning 930 30544245 50.00

D66 01/21/2016 4913 San Juan Capistrano - Monday Morning 30579210 33.60

D66 03/02/2016 5108 San Juan Capistrano - Thur 10AM 1578 25.00



D66 Total 1,630.12 9.98%

D69 01/21/2016 4897 Carlsbad - Experience, Strength & Hope 64594 20.00

D69 01/12/2016 4819 Carlsbad - Into the Solution 500883 27.68

D69 03/14/2016 5197 Carlsbad - La Costa Live & Let Live 66281 60.00

D69 01/12/2016 4813 Carlsbad - Loving Traditions 65399 25.00

D69 02/10/2016 5034 Carlsbad - Monday Noon AFG 64304 79.17



D69 01/21/2016 4905 Carlsbad - Sunset Step Study 65525 26.00

D69 03/24/2016 5217 Del Mar - Lunch Bunch AFG 48408 6.70

D69 01/12/2016 4829 Del Mar - Courage to Change Fri. AM 501479 53.00

D69 01/26/2016 4954 Del Mar - Tuesday Early Birds AFG 50721 22.47

D69 01/21/2016 4912 Del Mar - Working the Steps. 66846 33.55

D69 02/17/2016 5075 Encinitas - Moonlight Bch Just for Today 64413 20.00

D69 01/13/2016 4840 Escondido - Monday Open Topic 30548251 16.60

D69 02/17/2016 5048 Escondido - Back to Basics AFG 63269 18.00

D69 01/13/2016 4848 Fallbrook - One Day At A Timers Wed AFG 64927 20.00

D69 03/24/2016 5218 Oceanside - Book Study Thurs. 30640634 10.00

D69 01/21/2016 4894 Oceanside - Footprints in the Sand 37595 15.00

D69 01/12/2016 4834 Oceanside - Saturday Morning Discussion 61150 59.00

D69 02/17/2016 5062 Poway - New Beginnings 65751 50.00






D69 01/26/2016 4952 San Marcos - San Marcos Noon AFG 30648324 20.86

D69 01/21/2016 4896 Solana Beach - Miracle In Progress 61605 20.00

D69 02/03/2016 4973 Solana Beach - Monday Morning Step 502817 17.55

D69 01/13/2016 4844 Solana Beach - Thursday Sunnyside-Up 48686 19.00

D69 01/12/2016 4796 Solana Beach - Tuesday Morning Literature 502540 7.96

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D69 01/13/2016 4862 Vista - Strictly Al-Anon 500420 40.00

D69 Total 831.32 5.09%

D72 03/14/2016 5173 Chula Vista - South Bay AFG 64304 25.00

D72 01/13/2016 4860 El Cajon - Live & Let Live 30543404 33.00



D72 01/21/2016 4887 El Cajon - Search for Serenity 30556852 10.00

D72 01/21/2016 4893 El Cajon - Search for Serenity 30556852 10.00

D72 02/17/2016 5061 El Cajon - Serenity Afternoon AFG 30556852 50.00

D72 02/17/2016 5065 La Mesa - East County Daytime AFG 1078 83.74

D72 03/14/2016 5187 La Mesa - East County Daytime AFG 1078 51.05

D72 02/03/2016 4990 La Mesa - Men in the Park AFG 30520975 50.00

D72 03/02/2016 5120 La Mesa - Men in the Park AFG 30520975 50.00

D72 01/13/2016 4858 La Mesa - Serenity At The Lake Sun 9 am 40624 28.40

D72 02/17/2016 5059 La Mesa - Serenity At The Lake Sun 9 am 40624 40.00

D72 01/21/2016 4931 Lemon Grove - Al-Anon Recovering Adult 44078 19.00



D72 03/30/2016 5229 Lemon Grove - Friday Night Courage AFG 30660815 25.00

D72 03/30/2016 5231 Lemon Grove - Keep It Simple 51761 25.00

D72 02/17/2016 5074 Santee - Serenity 501009 15.00

D72 01/12/2016 4826 Spring Valley - New View AFG 42684 45.00

D72 03/14/2016 5184 Spring Valley - New View AFG 42684 47.25

D72 01/26/2016 4960 Spring Valley - TGIF AFG 32706 59.46

D72 Total 793.15 4.86%

D75 01/21/2016 4908 San Diego - AFG Speaker Meeting 30542728 30.00

D75 01/21/2016 4900 San Diego - Clairemont Clear View 503042 24.13

D75 02/17/2016 5053 San Diego - Clairemont Clear View 503042 20.00

D75 01/13/2016 4865 San Diego - Clairemont Day Time AFG 1529 50.00



D75 01/12/2016 4802 San Diego - Clairemont Friday Night 64471 11.50

D75 03/02/2016 5106 San Diego - Clairemont Friday Night 64471 25.00

D75 03/02/2016 5111 San Diego - Drop the Rock AFG 67038 28.40

D75 03/02/2016 5089 San Diego - Fireside AFG 46160 10.00

D75 03/08/2016 5136 San Diego - Hope and Help 30631708 10.00

D75 02/03/2016 4970 San Diego - La Jolla AFG Step Study 46737 10.00

D75 02/17/2016 5050 San Diego - La Jolla AFG Step Study 46737 20.00

D75 03/08/2016 5145 San Diego - Lost and Found Al-Anon Group 47087 25.00

D75 03/08/2016 5144 San Diego - Mind Your Own Business 47661 22.73

D75 02/10/2016 5022 San Diego - Mission Hills AFG 30614482 29.00

D75 01/26/2016 4951 San Diego - Parents of AFG No. County 30622773 20.00

D75 02/10/2016 5038 San Diego - Parents One Day At A Time 65433 30.00

D75 01/12/2016 4797 San Diego - San Carlos Serenity AFG 65007 8.97

D75 01/12/2016 4807 San Diego - Search for Peace 43018 18.97

D75 03/08/2016 5158 San Diego - Search for Peace 43018 15.00

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D75 01/21/2016 4907 San Diego - Serenity in Scripps AFG 30515230 30.00

D75 01/12/2016 4812 San Diego - Sun Night Courage Step Study 44283 21.80

D75 01/12/2016 4808 San Diego - UC Mamas & Papas 37117 19.14

D75 03/08/2016 5139 San Diego - UC Mamas & Papas 37117 16.60

D75 01/12/2016 4801 San Diego - UC Monday Lunch Bunch 30555026 10.90

D75 03/30/2016 5238 San Diego - UC Monday Lunch Bunch 30555026 12.06

D75 01/13/2016 4880 San Diego - What a Concept AFG. 30577897 60.00


D75 Total 645.20 3.95%

Grand 16,334.24 100.00%

SCWS DISTRICT CONTRIBUTIONS January through March 2016

Date Receipt No District Amount %

03/08/2016 5153 District 48 Con- 50.00 10.23%

02/17/2016 5068 District 51 Con- 200.00 40.93%

02/10/2016 5039 District 54 Con- 176.67 36.15%

03/08/2016 5159 District 54 Con- 62.00 12.69%

488.67 100.00%

SCWS CONVENTION CONTRIBUTIONS January through March 2016

Date Receipt No Event Amount %

03/14/2016 5191

Orange County Alathon 486.50 100.00%

486.50 100.00%

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Southern California Alateen Conference

Balance Sheet Accrual Basis As of March 31, 2016

Oct’15 – Mar 16

Assets Current Assets Checking/Savings

Chase Bank Checking 22,518.16 Total Checking/Savings

22,518.16

Total Current Assets 22,518.16 Other Assets Other Deposits

728.00 Total Other Deposits

728.00

Total Assets 23,246.16

Liabilities & Equity Equity Opening Bank Equity Unrestricted Net assets Net Income

1,655.73 22,170.07

-579.64 Total Equity 23,246.16 TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 23,246.16

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Balance Sheet Previous Year Comparison Accrual Basis As of March 31, 2016

Mar 31, 16 Mar 31, 15 $ Change % Change

Assets Current Assets Checking/Savings

Chase Bank Checking 22,518.16 8,034.07 14,484.09 180.3%

Total Checking/Savings

22,518.16

8,034.07

14,484.09

180.3%

Total Current Assets 22,518.16 8,034.07 14,484.09 180.3% Other Assets Other Deposits SCAC Deposit

728.00 0.00

0.00 5,000.00

728.00 -5,000.00

100.0% -100.0%

Total Other Deposits

728.00

5,000.00

-4,272.00

-85.4%

Total Assets 23,246.16 13,034.07 10,212.09 78.4%

Liabilities & Equity Equity Opening Bank Equity Unrestricted Net assets Net Income

1,655.73 22,170.07

-579.64

1,655.73 12,878.44 -1,500.10

0.00 9,291.63

920.46

0.0% 72.2% 61.4%

Total Equity 23,246.16 13,034.07 10,212.09 78.4% TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 23,246.16 13,034.07 10,212.09 78.4%

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Profit & Loss Accrual Basis October 2015through March 2016

Oct’15 – Mar 16

Ordinary Income/Expense Income Contributions

General Funds 288.80 Total Contributions

288.80

Fundraisers Food Concession

1,037.00

Total Fundraisers

1,037.00

Total Income

1,325.80

Expense Accountant Fees Filing Fees Shipping & Postage Supplies and Materials Merchandise

857.49

990.00 45.00 12.95

Total Supplies and Materials

857.49

Total Expense 1,905.44 Net Ordinary Income -579.64 Net Income -579.64

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Profit & Loss Prev Year Comparison Accrual Basis October 2015through March 2016

Oct ’15 – Mar 16 Oct ’14 – Mar 15 % Change % Change

Ordinary Income Expense Income Contibutions

General Funds 288.80 296.00 -7.20 -2.4% Scholarship Funds 0.00 331.84 -331.84 -100.0% Total Contributions

288.80

627.84

-339.04

-54.0%

Fundraisers Food Concession

1,037.00

953.00

84.00

8.8%

Total Fundraisers

1,037.00

953.00

84.00

8.8%

Total Income

1,325.80

1,580.84

-255.04

-16.1%

Expense Accountant Fees Alateen Bash Facilities Hall Rental

990.00 0.00

0.00

990.00 458.00

50.00

0.00

-458.00

-50.00

0.0%

-100.0%

-100.0% Total Facilities

0.00

50.00

-50.00

-100.0%

Filing Fees Printing and Reproduction Shipping & Postage Supplies and Materials Food Concession Merchandise

45.00 0.00 12.95

8.00 857.49

45.00 151.03

17.46

411.12 958.33

0.00 -151.03

-4.51

-411.12 -100.84

0.0% -100.0% -25.8%

-100.0% -10.5%

Total Supplies and Materials

857.49

1,369.45

-511.96

-37.4%

Total Expense 1,905.44 3,080.94 -1,175.50 -38.2% Net Ordinary Income -579.64 -1,500.10 920.46 61.4%

Net Income -679.64 -1,500.10 920.46 61.4%

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SCWS Directory –Past Delegates, Officers and Regional Trustee

OFFICERS

TITLE NAME PHONE STREET ADDRESS EMAIL

Delegate Elizabeth K.

Alternate Delegate Pete B.

Area Chair CB S.

Area Secretary Sandy P.

Treasurer Eva B.

Past Delegate Jayme C.

Regional Trustee Joyce B. 757-563-1600 1600 Corporate Landing Parkway, Virginia Beach, VA 23454 [email protected]

Panel Delegate Years Phone Email

1 Aura C. 1961-1963 Deceased

4 Cecelia B. 1964-1966 Deceased

7 Norris R. 1967-1969 Deceased

10 Helen B. 1970-1972 Deceased

13 Elsie Q. 1973-1975 Deceased

16 Betty O. 1976-1978

19 Pat R. 1979-1981

22 Bernie E. 1982-1984 Deceased

25 Bob L. 1985-1987

28 Hester B. 1988-1990 Deceased

31 Joyce K. 1991-1993

34 Kary L. 1994-1995

34 Rita M. 1996 Deceased

37 Willie W. 1997-1999

40 Kay D. 2000-2002

43 Miriam M. 2003-2005

46 Mary M. 2006-2008

49 Sandie E. 2009-2011

52 Jayme C. 2012-2014

Contact information may be obtained from the Group Records Coordinator at

[email protected]

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Coordinators Name Address City Phone Email

Alateen Personal Alateen information is not available for publication Please contact the Alateen Sponsor Coordinator for contact information.

Not Printed for Privacy

Alateen Sponsor

Coordinator

Cathleen C.

Archives Dan P.

Area Alateen Process

Person

Tarisa R.

Bulletin Jim B.

Cooperating With Pro-

fessional Community

Melva C.

Hospitality Judy P.

Institutions Billy M.

Literature Kathy G.

Public Information Rose S.

Group Records Donna E.

Web Site Irene C.

Spanish Coordinator Vacant

Intergroup-AIS Liaisons

Inland Empire Billy M.

Los Angeles County Eddie D.

Orange County Carol G.

San Diego County Michelle M.

Hispanic Intergroup Lourdes B.

Ventura County Si-Si M.

Convention Chairpersons

AFG Convention Michelle R.

SCAC Conference Not Printed for Privacy Personal Alateen information is not available for publication Please contact the Alateen Sponsor Coordinator for contact information

SoCal AA Convention Kathy G.

Area Coordinators, Intergroup Liaisons & Convention Chairs


[email protected]

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3 Mary M.

6 Cindy.

8 Tommie Rae B.

9 Suzi E.

10 Eleanor K.

12 Lalena C.

17 Enid M.

21 Marley D.

24 Andy T.

27 Richard R.

30 Anita Mariko H.

33 Maria M.

36 Sam Y.

39 Kirk S.

40 Chris C.

42 Ana R.

45 Shauna S.

48 Socorro P.

51 Sandra M.

54 Frank C.

57 Matha Z.

60 Corinna L.

63 Gene T.

64 Marco R.

66 Marilen H.

69 Andrea D.

72 Marcia M.

75 Kathleen A.



[email protected]

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Position Email Address

Alateen Sponsor Coordinator [email protected]

Alternate Delegate [email protected]

Archives Coordinator [email protected]

Bulletin Coordinator [email protected]

Chairperson [email protected]

Cooperating with Professional Community [email protected]

Delegate [email protected]

Forum [email protected]

Group Records Coordinator [email protected]

Institutions Coordinator [email protected]

Literature Coordinator [email protected]

Past Delegate [email protected]

Public Outreach Coordinator [email protected]

Secretary [email protected]

Treasurer [email protected]

Website Coordinator [email protected]

SCWS EMAIL ADDRESSES Please Go to the SCWS Website to Easily Send an Email to an Officer or Coordinator!

MAIL SENT VIA US MAIL 10073 Valley View St. #260, Cypress, CA 90630

For all mail including contributions, group or district changes, AMIAS paperwork, etc. Please address it to SCWS <position>, i.e., “Treasurer”, “AAPP”, “Delegate”, “Group Records”, etc.

Please use ONLY the JOB TITLE; do NOT put a person’s name on any correspondence!

Al-Anon Inland Empire Service Center 1016 East Cooley Drive, Suite C-2 Colton 92324 (909) 824-1516 www.iealanon.org

Al-Anon Information Service Kern County Post Office Box 894, Bakersfield 93302 (661)322-1102 www.kernalanon.org

Los Angeles County Al-Anon Family Groups 4936 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood 91601 (818) 760-7122 Los Angeles www.alanonla.org

Al-Anon Information Service Office of Orange County 12391 Lewis Street, Suite 102, Garden Grove, CA 92840 (714) 748-1113 www.orangecountyalanon.org

San Luis Obispo Office P.O. Box 209, Grover Beach 93483 (805) 534-9204

San Diego Al-Anon Office 3108 Fifth Avenue, Suite E, San Diego 92103 (619) 296-2666 * www.alanonsandiego.org

Al-Anon Family Groups Santa Barbara County Post Office Box 30428, Santa Barbara 93130 (805) 899-8302 * www.alanonsantabarbara.info

Spanish Intergroup Office of Southern California 11627 E. Telegraph Rd Ste. 150 Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 562-948-2190

Ventura County Al-Anon Family Groups Post Office Box 6754, Ventura 93006-6754 (805) 495-0270 * www.alanonventura.org

Al-Anon in the Desert 73-441 Fred Waring Drive Ste.2, Palm Desert, CA 92260-2866 Office Phone & FAX No. (760) 341-6202 (760) 674-9554 Meeting Information (888) 512-0061 www.alanoninthedesert.com

Al-ANON INFORMATION SERVICE CENTERS

http://www.alanonventura.org

http://www.alanoninthedesert.com

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These forms may be completed on line or downloaded from the SCWS website—”Get Forms” - “Group registration forms”

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These forms may be completed on line or downloaded from the SCWS website—”Get Forms” - “Group registration

SCWS Group Contributions Form

______Al-Anon _______Alateen Group Name: ______________________________

Group Address: ____________________________________________________________

Group City: _______________________ Day: ______________ Time: ____________

WSO ID#: _______________________ Contribution Enclosed: ___________________

Submitted By: Name: ________________________________________________

E-Mail Address/Phone Number: ________________________________________________

Make check or money order payable to: SCWS

Mail Contributions to:

SCWS, Attn: Area Treasurer

10073 Valley View St. #260

Cypress, CA 90630

Any questions and/or comments, please contact [email protected]

——————————————————————————————————

—————

SCWS BULLETIN SUBSCRIPTION FORM

New Subscription: ________ Renewal: ___________ Correction: ___________

Cost: $15.00 per year and enclosed is $_______________ for __________ years

Name: _____________________________________________________

Mailing Address: ____________________________________________________

City/State/Zip: ______________________________________________________

Make check or money order payable to: SCWS

Mail Subscription and Payment to:

SCWS, Attn: Area Treasurer

10073 Valley View #260

Cypress, CA 90630

Any questions and/or comments, please contact treasurer@scws-al-anon.

These forms may be completed on line or downloaded from the SCWS website—”Get Forms” - “Group registration

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Map to Assembly/Committee Meeting Location-

…..Glendale First United Methodist Carlson Hall…….

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