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About the South Florida Intergroup |
About the South Florida Intergroup
why:
Every SLAA service body should have a way for the group conscience, composed
of any interested SLAA group members within the population represented, to govern
service policy with substantial unanimity. Such a service body then
acts on behalf of and for the good of the represented membership. The SFI has a structure and policy that
can be changed through expressions of Intergroup Conscience at quarterly or
special meetings.
when:
usually the 4th Sunday of January, April, July and October from 4:30 PM to 5:30
PM
(An additional meeting focusing on public information and outreach will be held on Sunday, September 13th, 2009 from 4:30 PM to 5:30
PM. A PDF flyer for the Big Outreach is here.)
where:
St. Nicholas Episcopal Church
Room 7 (on the 2nd floor behind the courtyard)
1111 E. Sample Road
Pompano Beach, Florida 33064
directions:
Take I-95 to Pompano Beach. Take exit 39, the Sample Road exit. Turn left to
head east if you were on I-95 south. Turn right to head east if you were on
I-95 north. The building is one mile east of I-95 on the left (north) side of
Sample Road. Walk up one of the rear external stairways to the second floor
to find room 7.
map:
Click here for a map or just print this page. The map is at the bottom.
The Next Quarterly Meeting of the South Florida Intergroup
The next face-to-face meeting of the SFI is scheduled for Sunday, April 25th, from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm. The agenda is below.
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Agenda, April 25th, Second Quarter 2010 Intergroup Conscience Meeting
Serenity Prayer
Old Business
- Minutes from First Quarter 2010
- Items submitted to the B.M.I.S. Editor
- Ratify the S.F.I. Privacy Policy
- S.F.I. web site report
- Note presented to Jessica T., Group Secretary for e-SLAA.org
- Public Information Writing Group and the joint C.P.I.C./S.F.I. project of the Treatment Outreach Kit status report
New Business
- S.F.I. officer rotation (nominations, self-nominations, elections)
- Delegate Selection
- Delegate and outreach funding
- Limit on overseas and remote sponsorship costs
Serenity Prayer
Treatment Outreach Kit Documents
Treatment Outreach Kit Design as of 1/9/2010
Agenda, Writing Kickoff 2010 - Conference Call
4 PM Eastern Time (which is 1 PM Pacific Time) this Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Please plan on attending if at all possible.
We can use the conference call number for the C.P.I.C., which is 712.432.1601. When prompted, key in the participant code 714246#.
First Objective
The immediate objective is to finish developing the text for a Treatment Outreach Kit during this month of January. After running the text through the C.P.I.C. and perhaps other committees for comment, a pilot Treatment Outreach Kit can be created that the C.P.I.C. will have the option to submit for Conference approval at the 2010 Annual Business Meeting. The kit could then be used by intergroups and groups around the world to reach sex and love addicts, raising awareness of treatment planning and discharge planning options within the substance abuse treatment world. In A.A., this is called, "Cooperation with the Professional Community."
Distribution Plan
The currently planned distribution pathway for the information contained in the kit will be from ...
- S.L.A.A.F.W.S. via the web site slaafws.org to ...
- S.L.A.A. intergroup public information teams to ...
- Program Directors of substance abuse treatment facilities to ...
- Their staff to ...
- Patients being discharged.
Current Kit Design
The current kit design is below. Click here for the larger S.F.I. document, so that you can see the big picture on the public information horizon. It contains an overview of the last eighteen months of C.P.I.C. work.
- Guide for Group and Intergroup Outreach to Treatment Facilities
- The goal: Reaching out to the sex and love addict going through drug and alcohol treatment
- The first objective: Showing the staff how S.L.A.A. resources benefit them
- How to make an appointment with a Program Director or other manager
- Deciding whether to offer bringing an S.L.A.A. meeting into the facility
- Preparing for the meeting with the staff: what to know in advance, what to bring, and how to dress
- What to say and what to not say
- Follow up is everything
- Program Director landing page
- Brief on the potential benefits of S.L.A.A. resources for a substance abuse treatment program from an insurance and accreditation point of view
- Executive summary of the importance of the sex and love addiction model in alcohol and drug relapse prevention
- Information to further legitimize S.L.A.A. as an adjunct to existing treatment resources
- Executive summary of the use of S.L.A.A. resources in inpatient and outpatient programs
- Hosted S.L.A.A. meetings as a distinguishing characteristic of a progressive inpatient program and how to launch and manage them
- How to get other S.L.A.A. resources appropriate for staff and/or patients
- FAQ for treatment planning
- Exactly how the sex and love addiction model prevents relapse in alcohol and drug addicted patients
- Related DSM diagnoses with associated addictive behaviors, how S.L.A.A. practices complement and reinforce common therapeutic practice, and additional treatment goals and objectives options for each diagnosis
- FAQ for outpatient programs
- Exactly how the sex and love addiction model prevents relapse in alcohol and drug addicted patients in outpatient programs
- How to match meetings up with a patient's outpatient schedule
- Link to the local meeting list
- Links to free local and worldwide S.L.A.A. resources
- Links to the F.W.S. web store
- Contact information for a trusted servant who talks to professionals
- S.L.A.A. aftercare sheet
- Header with blanks for name and date provided to patient
- Table of blanks for meeting dates, times, locations, meeting names, topics, and signature
- FAQ for discharge planning
- How S.L.A.A. meeting attendance in the discharge plan improves a patient's likelihood of success
- The safety measures typically employed at meetings
- How to find S.L.A.A. meetings and other S.L.A.A. resources
- How to specify S.L.A.A. resources in a discharge plan
- How to match meetings up with a patient's residential plans
- Links (see below
- Contact information for a trusted servant who talks to professionals
- S.L.A.A. referral sheet
- Header with blanks for name, patient number, discharge date, primary therapist
- Table of blanks for days of the week, times, locations, meeting names, and contacts
Agenda, 1st Quarter 2010 - Sunday, January 24th
- Commence at 4:30 PM EST
- Opening (5 min)
- We version of the Serenity Prayer
- Passing contact information sheet (name, phone, email, town)
- Selection of person to take minutes
- Selection of timer
- Reports
- Contact List Status
- Group Officer Roster (G.S.R.'s, Liaisons, Contact People)
- S.F.I. Entries
- Group Service Correspondence Report
- Phone contact
- Email contact
- Visiting of meetings
- Outreach
- Web Site Traffic
- Response to Inquiries
- e-SLAA.org
Feedback
- C.P.I.C. feedback (Chair joined)
- C.M.R.C. feedback (Chair joined)
- C.S.T.C. feedback (no comment)
- C.I.C. feedback (Chair joined)
- B.O.T. feedback (notice and subsequent thread)
- Outreach response rates (join 10%, praise 20%, opt-out 2%, complaint <1%)
- Gratitude Blog content (read)
- Reason for joining list (no local meetings, etc.)
- meeting attendance (8, ...)
- F.W.S. Webmaster feedback (facial identification or triggering of addiction from 1,024 pixels)
- Other comments
- Public Information
- C.P.I.C. Coordination and Cooperation
- Writing
- Funding
- Graphic Arts
- F.W.S. Office Unity
- Read list of services from web site
- Formal letter of appreciation?
- Subprojects (for reference)
- Substance Abuse Treatment Centers
- Places of Worship
- Recovery Clubs
- Individual Professionals
- Decisions
- Proposed privacy policy (see below)
- Any policy changes to e-SLAA
- Requiring training for any phone numbers listed on S.F.I. site
- Potential Anorexia B.M.I.s
- MOTION - For all official purposes within Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, sexual, social, and emotional anorexia are considered addictive patterns even though they are avoidance patterns, and those who have only sexual, social, and emotional anorexia are as welcomed as members of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous as those with acting out patterns.
- IFD - In light of the long-standing popularity of the brown anorexia pamphlet among those with or without acting out patterns of sex and love addiction, should the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions be expanded? One options is for Step One to read, "We admitted we were powerless over sex addiction, love addiction, and anorexic addictive patterns, that our lives had become unmanageable." The object of the first action in Step Twelve could be changed to, "Sex and love addicts and anorexics." The pattern referenced in Tradition Three could be changed to, "Sex addiction, love addiction, and anorexic addictive patterns." The object of the primary purpose clause in Tradition Five could be changed to, "sex and love addicts and anorexics."
- Possible motions stemming from last year's I.F.D.
- Distribute the S.L.A.A. basic text through publicly popular online and storefront bookstores, priced in such a way as to maximize both F.W.S. revenue generation and the visibility of S.L.A.A. recovery to those specifically seeking literature on the topic.
- Distribute the S.L.A.A. basic text on mobile readers.
- For every 100 copies of the S.L.A.A. basic text sold, give one complementary copy to a metropolitan library, mental health care facility, or mental health care office.
- It is legitimate, in light of the importance of multimedia communications today, for the Conference to be able to approve public information kits that combine text, graphics, audio, and video and are delivered via a combination of web, print, and mobile devices. It is also legitimate for the Board Public Relations Committee to adjust such approved kits for financial or operational reasons or to dovetail them properly into other public relations projects and practices, provided they do not unnecessarily abridge the attractiveness of the kit to its prospective recipients.
- The S.L.A.A. Conference recognizes that outreach and public information are vital functions at all levels of the service structure, per Tradition Five. Outreach and public information functions shall be encouraged at all levels of the S.L.A.A. service structure, provided that all activities adhere to the Twelve Traditions, the Twelve Media Guidelines, and prudent management and coordination of financial, staff, and volunteer resources. The Conference further acknowledges that public messages are only to be considered promotion, in the context of Tradition Eleven, if they are either sensationalized, dishonest, or involve personalities in such a way as to break principles of anonymity.
- Develop a privacy policy for the F.W.S. Office and board public relations, properly balancing reputation management, principles of anonymity, and the need for outreach and public information.
- Possible I.F.D.s from last year's I.F.D.
- Start sharing sheets for a fellowship-wide project on a book called Give it Away.
- Create an S.L.A.A. anonymous video testimony for YouTube.
- Possible local outreach activities
- Forward SexAndLoveAddictsAnonymous.org on top of slaafws.org.
- Develop SexAndLove.org as an outreach web site.
- Into Action
- Writing Group
- status of conference calls and email connectivity
- volunteers
- action items
- deadlines
- Graphic Arts Deadlines
- volunteers
- action items
- deadlines
- Landing Page Deadlines
- volunteers
- action items
- deadlines
- Print and Mail Deadlines
- volunteers
- action items
- deadlines
- The Next Survey (15 min)
- Closing (3 min)
- check the contact information sheet
- celebration of the 7th tradition for SFI
- announce October 25th quarterly
- we-version of the Serenity Prayer
- Adjourn at 5:30 PM EST
Minutes, Southwest Florida Ad Hoc Startup Subcommittee Meeting, September 19th, 2009
- Commence at 4:33 PM EST
- Opened with the Serenity Prayer
- In attendance were Jen, Moses, Oren, and Douglas (Chairing).
- Douglas recited S.F.I. goals and resources. See agenda.
- It was decided that Thursday from 7:30 to 8:30 PM in Fort Myers was desirable.
- Oren will check with Unity that now hosts the Friday 7 PM meeting to see if they will agree to changing the time to Thursday at 7:30 PM.
- Oren suspects they will agree.
- Item tabled pending the result of Unity's answer through Oren.
- Discussion over Monday and Tuesday was ambiguous.
- Item tabled until Sharon can attend the conference call.
- Douglas agreed to check with Sharon.
- It was decided, because of the Round Up on the weekend of the 25th, that the next ad hoc meeting shall be on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
- Closed with a review of the action items, the announcement of the October 25th S.F.I. Quarterly, and the We version of the Serenity Prayer.
- Adjourn at 4:55 PM EST
Simple and Easy Service
- If you attend a group regularly, it takes little effort to be a Group Service Rep, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
- If you have worked at treatment centers, it takes little effort to help write text and select images for treatment center outreach, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
- If you have extra money, it takes little effort to sponsor a public information mailing, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
- If you feel authentic gratitude for your S.L.A.A. recovery, it takes little effort to follow up mailings and emailings with a phone call, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
- If you have professional credentials, it takes little effort to speak with others in your field as a part of an outreach plan, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
- If you have a tight schedule yet need a weekly meeting routine, it takes little effort to moderate an e-slaa meeting, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
- If you love to do digital graphic design, it takes little effort to put together a brochure or landing page, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
- If you have leadership and organizational abilities, it takes little effort to help assemble kits and coordinate service activities for maximum effectiveness, and it will keep you engaged in your recovery.
Big Outreach Planning, September 2009
The agenda and initial notes of the Big Outreach Planning Meeting have been moved to here.
Archives
Some of the minutes and agenda of past S.F.I. meetings can be found here.
Street Map and Room Locator Map
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