Service Opportunities

By our Twelve Steps we have recovered, by our Twelve Traditions we have unified, and through our Third Legacy — Service — we shall carry the AA message down through the corridors of time to come.
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., November 1951

Giving Back What Was Freely Given

AA members, recovered alcoholics, give back freely to help the still suffering alcoholic, giving back what was freely given.

AA has many opportunities for AA members to be of service at the group level and more. Edmonton Central Office welcomes volunteers to help out on the board, in the office or to work on the various Service Committees dedicated to helping the alcoholic who still suffers.

Service committees work to ensure the AA message reaches people who may need it. Many alcoholics first hear AA’s message of hope thanks to the work of the volunteers on these committees. To find out more about these committees go to: Get Involved – Service committees.

Click on each opportunity below for further details…

Office Volunteer

Office volunteers provide help to the suffering alcoholic by staffing shifts in our office to help with answering the phone, and/or responding to those who walk-in looking for assistance. They focus on providing information to those with a drinking problem or those looking to get help for a loved one.

These Volunteers also help produce meeting schedules by stapling, cutting and folding printed sheets. They may help tend the bookstore and assist with other office related duties.

12 Step Volunteer

12-Step Volunteers provide a rapid response to callers to our Hotline.
Twelfth Step Calls today are no different than they were in 1935. They are still two or more alcoholics coming together to have a conversation with a newcomer about recovery from alcoholism. Carrying the message to the newcomer be it face to face or virtually, the message remains the same.

PI / CPC Committee

The Public Information (PI) Committee members in AA have the responsibility of carrying the message of recovery to the still-suffering alcoholic by informing the general public about alcoholism and the AA program.

The Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC) Committee helps to inform professional communities about the AA program of recovery— what AA is and how it works.

Intergroup Representative

The responsibility for maintaining the existence of Edmonton Intergroup (EI) rests with the groups. Therefore, each Group should name an Intergroup Representative (IGR) and an Alternate (Alt-IGR) to serve a specified term as the connecting link between their Group and EI.

The IGR’s help best direct the actions of EI and its primary purpose, carrying the message of recovery to the community

Edmonton Intergroup Chair

Facilitates the monthly EI Business Meeting and chairs the monthly COB / EI Committee Chairs’ Meeting. The EI Chair attends the monthly Central Office Board (COB) Meeting. The EI Chair works on projects to improve cohesive interaction and communications between EI and AA Group members in the many Districts of Area 78 committed to support of EI.

Central Office Board

Edmonton Intergroup (EI) is registered in Alberta as “Edmonton Central Office Society”, a not-for-profit tax-exempt organization. Its Board of six (6) Directors is responsible for the legal and financial operations of the organization, management of paid staff, and oversight of EI. The Central Office Board (COB) is made up of AA service members who care about the financial side of our Central Office, enabling the Service Committee’s the freedom to help carry the message.

Bridging the Gap

Bridging the Gap is a Treatment & Accessibility Committee program where AA members help alcoholics leaving a treatment facility become acquainted with AA, and help get them to AA meetings in their community. Bridging the Gap helps the newcomer make the transition from institution to the AA community.

Service Sponsorship

A Service Sponsor is an alcoholic in recovery who shares their service experience with an alcoholic who takes a service commitment in one of the many service entities within Alcoholics Anonymous.
Service sponsors serve as a guide when starting new service positions as well as help explain the service structure of AA.

Website Administrator

Help keep our ECO website up to date by joining our Communication Services team as a Website Administrator. The Website Administrator updates the on-line meeting list and event calendar from home helping alcoholics looking for a meeting. Access to internet and a computer, laptop or tablet are required. Training is provided.

General Service Representative

The General Service Representative (GSR) is the link between a group and “AA as a whole.” This link becomes a channel through which news, information, opinions and ideas can flow back and forth.
Importantly, this also gives the group a voice in the affairs of the Fellowship. The GSR is that voice.

Duties & Responsibilities

Please Help
Write an article for ECO Newsletter

We would like to hear about your experience, strength and hope. For example, write a short story about your home group, give your interpretation of a slogan, talk about one of the steps or traditions.
Submissions should be between 250-300 words. Submit articles to the Newsletter Editor.

Other Service Committees

Edmonton & Area has a full slate of AA Service committees. Check out our committee listings here for details on how you can help carry the message…

Anonymity

Members of AA protect their anonymity

to protect the AA organization, their professional and private lives, the lives of other alcoholics, and most importantly, those seeking help with their drinking problem: the newcomer
Your anonymity will be protected. AA does not keep information on their members nor track or record who contacts them

For more information, visit our page on anonymity

Anonymity

Announcements

Member Support Means the World to the Still Suffering Alcoholic…..

Financial Contributions