The South Florida Intergroup (SFI) of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous

SLAA, also known as the Augustine Fellowship, is an anonymous program for those experiencing sex and love addiction. Using the twelve steps for recovery, adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, we offer a solution for those caught in a recurring, ever-worsening pattern of sex and love addiction. We have found that only through meeting regularly with those actively involved in their own recovery process is personal recovery possible. We share our recovery with others in order to maintain our own.

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Vision, Policy and Structure

The SFI currently serves the SLAA community in the counties of Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade and the Keys.

Any of the below vision, policy or service structure can be modified through appropriate expressions of Intergroup Conscience.

This version of SFI Vision, Policy and Structure reflects the changes made by Intergroup Conscience on April 10th, 2005.

The Threefold Vision of the South Florida Intergroup

1. We envision a network of committed SLAA group members involved in carrying the message of SLAA recovery to those addicted who have never heard about SLAA recovery to professionals, organizations and facilities that are involved in the treatment of sex and love related disorders.
2. We envision a vital South Florida SLAA Community formed by regular meeting attendance, phone conversation and special events.
3. We envision a store house of up-to-date South Florida SLAA meeting and special event information available to SLAA members, professionals, and suffering sex and love addicts that are seeking recovery.

The Twelve South Florida Intergroup Policies

1. The SFI adheres to the 12 Traditions of SLAA and to the 12 Recommended Guidelines for Dealing with Media and Public Relations Opportunities.
2. SFI provides information to the professional community, members of other recovery communities and people who are suffering from sex and love addiction that have no relationship with either therapeutic or recovery resources.
3. The SFI maintains a confidential list of people interested in service, their contact information, their service function(s) and their home group to facilitate inter-group communications. These people are notified well in advance of Intergroup Conscience meetings.
4. The SFI is focussed on providing communication services to individual SLAA groups in the service area, keeping SFI decision-making and financial activities to a minimum, so that most authority and responsibility within the community is delegated to the group level.
5. General Service Representatives (GSRs) will be the point person or people for their respective groups. Each group may choose one or two GSRs if they wish to be represented in the SFI.
6. Because each group is autonomous, each group will have the ability to limit what of the information related to its meetings will be available in the SFI printed schedule and on the SFI web pages.
7. Because of privacy concerns, contact information associated with SLAA Groups will not be shared with other SLAA Trusted Servants, included in the SFI printed schedule or place in SFI web pages without the direct consent of the people for whom the contact information relates.
8. To gain a wider base of service experience, rotation of SFI Trusted Servants is preferable whenever a reasonable term of service has elapsed and sober and willing people are available to step up to service. Where practical, it is encouraged that each SFI Trusted Servant and Group Service Representative hold only one office at a time.
9. Duplication of service functions between SFI Trusted Servants is encouraged to stabilize and secure SFI operations. Similarly SFI meeting and contact information is to be held by two or more SFI Trusted Servants to reduce the likelihood of loss of critical operations information and service archives.
10. The safety of new members depends on the accuracy of meeting information. Changes to the printed and Internet versions of the SFI meeting schedule must be submitted or confirmed by either an established Group Service Representatives (GSR) or two corroborating SLAA Members
11. Although perseverance is an important quality to develop in recovery, SFI functions will rely on postal and electronic communications where possible to conduct business to get the most out of the service hours donated by SFI Trusted Servants and Group Service Representatives (GSRs).
12. The SFI provides Trusted Servants respond appropriately to phone, e-mail and in-person inquiries from those who seek information and/or support not otherwise available.

Offices of The SFI

Intergroup Conscience Chairperson

1. Abstained from bottom line behavior for a suggested one or more years.
2. Calls quarterly meetings of Intergroup Conscience with the assistance of the Notification Secretary, choosing an available centralized meeting location.
3. Chairs the Quarterly Intergroup Conscience Meetings.
4. Encourages the following of SLAA tradition and policy at Quarterly Intergroup Conscience Meetings and in general in SFI service.
5. Maintains list of motions that passed and motions that failed.
6. Encourages and oversees that each SFI officer is active in their responsibilities and communication with other SFI officers.

Group Service Corespondent

1. Gathers and updates an SFI Membership List containing the contact information of all SLAA Members interested in SFI service.
2. Synchronizes the SFI Membership List with that of the Notification Secretary.
3. Gathers and updates an SFI Meeting Schedule containing all meetings in the SFI service area that autonomously indicate their wish to be on the schedule.
4. Synchronizes the SFI Meeting Schedule with that of the Notification Secretary.
5. Encourages Group Service Representatives (GSRs) to share recovery and service information with both the group they represent and other SFI Trusted Servants. This encouragement is done via phone and by visiting each SLAA Meeting
6. Plants the idea into each group that does not have one or two active General Service Representatives that service is the backbone of recovery as pointed out in Tradition One.

Notification Secretary

1. Gathers and updates an SFI Membership List containing the contact information of all SLAA Members interested in SFI service.
2. Synchronizes the SFI Membership List with that of the Group Service Corespondent.
3. Synchronizes the F.W.S. list of meetings for South Florida with that of SFI.
4. Ensures that the SFI web site and South Florida SLAA meetings are listed properly on the F.W.S. web site and in the F.W.S. International Meeting Directory.
5. Notifies F.W.S. of any changes in contact information.
6. Notifies GSRs and groups without a GSR of special events.
7. Notifies GSRs and groups without a GSR of matters of Intergroup Conscience.
8. Sends updated SFI Meeting Schedules to GSRs and groups without a GSR.

Public Information Chairperson

1. Becomes clear on the meaning of the 12 Traditions and the 12 Recommended Guidelines for Dealing with Media and Public Relations Opportunities.
2. Considers maters of anonymity, confidentiality, abuse of contact information and the safety of meeting places;and attempts to strike a balance between these and active dissemination of information about SLAA Recovery in South Florida.
3. Develops relationships with the professional community, government, other 12 step fellowships and recovery institutions.
4. Sends updated SFI Meeting Schedules, carefully selected pamphlets and a cover letter containing the F.W.S. And SFI web site addresses to professionals, government offices, other 12 step meetings and recovery institutions.
5. Chairs the Public Information Subcommittee and delegates outreach activities to other SFI Trusted Servants to penetrate all factions of the local community with correct information about SLAA And meetings in South Florida within the constraints of SLAA Tradition
6. In the future, a two sided glossy index-card-sized general public outreach card may be printed and distributed by the Public Information Subcommittee.

Schedule and Calendar Coordinator

1. Gathers and updates an SFI Meeting Schedule containing all meetings in the SFI service area that autonomously indicate their wish to be on the schedule.
2. Synchronizes the SFI Meeting Schedule with that of the Group Service Corespondent.
3. Directly updates the Internet version of the SFI Meeting Schedule with the assistance of the SFI Webmaster.
4. Adds special events to the SFI Calendar.

Inquiry Response Representative

1. Answers questions that arise out of outreach activities with official information. If an inquiry cannot be answered officially by the Inquiry Response Representative, the inquiry is delegated to F.W.S. or another SFI Trusted Servant who can, or as a last resort simply responds "we don't know".
2. Responds to incoming inquiries via e-mail, the SFI web site inquiry form.
3. In the future, an SFI post office box and SFI voice mail box may also be rented and monitored by the Inquiry Response Representative.

Intergroup Archivist

1. Keeps dated a copy of motions that passed and motions that failed from each Quarterly Intergroup Conscience Meeting.
2. Keeps dated a copy of the SFI Membership List that failed from each Intergroup Conscience Meeting.
3. Keeps any other official F.W.S., SFI or SLAA Group documents that fall into the hands of the SFI.
4. Cleans the SFI Archive of superfluous materials and documents.
5. Keeps the SFI Archive well organized and cataloged.

Webmaster

1. Ensures the correct operation of the SFI web site.
2. Registers and reregisters the SFI web site with various search engines and other SLAA sites.
3. Provides software tools and passwords to the Schedule and Calendar Coordinator for direct update of the SFI Meeting Schedule and Calendar.
4. Makes modifications to the SFI web site per Intergroup Conscience.
5. Protects the SFI web site from tampering, abuse and links and references from inappropriate web sites.

Alternates

1. Provides backup support and prudent redundancy for the other SFI offices.

Composition of Meeting Schedule Items

Any of the following information can be made available on either the printed SFI meeting schedule the SFI Internet schedule or both.

• name of the group
• general format (discussion, SLAA text, speaker, chairperson's choice, mixed format, etc.)
• special characteristics (step, anorexia, slaa-anon, handicap accessible, getting current included, etc.)
• time slot (day of week, start time, end time)
• name of the facility and/or building
• full street address and city
• clear directions
• map image or images
• name of the Group Service Representative (GSR)
• phone contact(s)
• e-mail contact(s)
• post office box

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