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The Atlantic Southeast ACA intergroup is a collaborative organization of individual ACA groups in the southeastern United States that have joined together to offer fellowship and service opportunities for ACA fellow travelers.
Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)/Dysfunctional Families is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of men and women who grew up in dysfunctional homes.
We meet to share our experience of growing up in an environment where abuse, neglect and trauma infected us. This affects us today and influences how we deal with all aspects of our lives.
ACA provides a safe, nonjudgmental environment that allows us to grieve our childhoods and conduct an honest inventory of ourselves and our family—so we may (i) identify and heal core trauma, (ii) experience freedom from shame and abandonment, and (iii) become our own loving parents.
Source: adultchildren.org
ACA, like most other organizations, has a structure which begins with individuals forming ACA groups. The groups form Intergroups to help facilitate open communication and sharing of ideas in their geographical area and to carry the ACA message into treatment centers and other facilities. Intergroup helps the groups explore ideas of carrying the message within a given community.
Intergroups and ACA World Service Organization (WSO) serve as a resource for the groups, and the groups, in turn, are encouraged to provide willing trusted servants to do the good work of ACA at the Intergroup, Regional, and WSO levels.
While WSO and Intergroups can and do provide guidance to ACA meetings, when asked, they ultimately must step back and let meetings decide for themselves how to run their particular meeting.
Source: Page 509, © 2006 by Adult Children of Alcoholic/Dysfunctional Families (Big Red Book)
Other things Intergroup does:
Intergroup Representative:
Each ACA meeting should have an active Intergroup Representative (IR). This may be the same person who is listed as the meeting contact, or the local group may elect a separate individual.
Checks can be made out to Atlantic Southeast ACA Intergroup and mailed to
1001 Carl Vinson Pkwy., Centerville GA 31028