District 04 MSCA 09

General Service - Alcoholics Anonymous

District 04 MSCA 09

Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC), Panel 74

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Panel 74 Chair: Gregory J.
e-mail: CPC@LongBeachAA.org

Your District 04 CPC Committee can bring the message of Alcoholics Anonymous to professionals in your community, helping them understand how and why AA works. Members of CPC Committees inform professionals and future professionals about AA – what we are, where we are, what we can do, and what we cannot do.

CPC works at establishing better communication between AA’s and professionals, and to find simple effective ways of cooperation without affiliation. Non-alcoholic professionals may work and/ or meet the alcoholic where AA is not known or present.

Through professionals, alcoholics may be reached who might otherwise never find the program. Moreover, they may be reached sooner with the help of informed non AA professionals who may cross paths with the alcoholic through their chosen profession.

Professional communities include that of medicine, education, law, corrections, the judiciary, the military, the clergy, and social work. In this way, still suffering alcoholics can be reached where, under other circumstances, may fall through the cracks.

CPC is vital and rewarding Service work. District 04 is here to support your CPC vision, your goals and your efforts.

*excerpts taken from Cooperation with the Professional Community Workbook 2018

CPC Kit
   
About A.A. – A Newsletter for Professionals
 
Chair Responsibilities:

  1. Suggested sobriety: 2 years.
  2. Attend all (no less than 6) Area CPC meetings and report to the District on CPC activities.
  3. Form and maintain a District 4 CPC Committee made up of GSRs and other interested members.
  4. Establish projects for the District 4 CPC Committee to work on.

Corrections Committee, Panel 74

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Panel 74 Chair: Jade M.
email: Corrections@LongBeachAA.org

Corrections Committee Workbook

The purpose of a corrections committee is to coordinate the work of individual A.A. members and groups who are interested in carrying our message of recovery to incarcerated alcoholics. Bringing meetings and literature into facilities, raising awareness of the Corrections Correspondence Service (C.C.S.) among “inside” and “outside” A.A. members, and helping inmates transition to a local A.A. Community through Pre-release contacts are just some of the activities corrections committees support. (From AA.org website)

  1. Suggested sobriety: 2 years.
  2. Attend at least 6 Area Corrections meetings per year and report to the district on activities.
  3. Form, maintain, and facilitate a District 4 Corrections Committee made up of GSRs and interested members.
  4. Encourage GSRs to promote Corrections Correspondence with their groups.
  5. Coordinate with Harbor Area Central Office Liaison to utilize the use of Harbor Area for receipt and relay of correspondence for members who prefer not giving out the personal home addresses.
  6. Pre-Release Contact
    • Be the contact point for GSO for inmate placement in prerelease contacts for inmates being paroled in District 4.
    • Obtain contact information and names of groups willing to take in parolees into their groups upon release.
    • Send inmate information on groups willing to take them in as members after release and provide personal contact information when provided.
  7. General Service Office – Maintain open communications with the corrections Desk at the General Service Office (GSO).

Finance Committee, Panel 74

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Panel 74 Chair: Vacant
finance@longbeachaa.org

Budget to Actuals 2025 Midyear Report

2024 D04 Budget Adopted 12.06.2023

p72 Financial Reports

p70 Financial Reports

For 2026 budget requests email finance@longbeachaa.org

For 2026 reimbursement requests email treasurer@longbeachaa.org

Panel 76 Budget Request Form - Finance Chair

    Name:

    Email:

    Phone:

    Select Standing Committee:

    Requested Amount:

    Description of Request:

    “AA’s far-flung Twelfth Step activities, carrying the message to the next sufferer, are the very lifeblood of our AA adventure. Without this vital activity, we would soon become anemic; we would literally wither and die.

    “Now where do AA’s services—worldwide, area, local—fit into our scheme of things? Why should we provide these functions with money? The answer is simple enough. Every single AA service is designed to make more and better Twelfth Step work possible, whether it be a group meeting place, a central or intergroup office to arrange hospitalization and sponsorship, or the world service Headquarters [now the General Service Office] to maintain unity and effectiveness all over the globe.

    “Though not costly, these service agencies are absolutely essential to our continued expansion —to our survival as a Fellowship. Their costs are a collective obligation that rests squarely upon all of us. Our support of services actually amounts to a recognition on our part that AA must everywhere function in full strength—and that, under our Tradition of self-support, we are all going to foot the bill.”~ Bill W., October 1967 Grapevine ~ Taken from the A.A. Guidelines on Finance from N.Y.

    Finance Committee Chair Responsibilities:

    • Suggested sobriety: 2 years.
    • Attend all (no less than 6) Area Finance Committee meetings and report to the District on Area financial matters.
    • Coordinate with the District 4 Treasurer to obtain District financial data for use in financial planning.
    • Prepare the annual District 4 budget.

    Finance Activity per Panel 74

    Grapevine/La Viña Committee, Panel 74

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    Panel 74 Committee Chair: Carol

    Committee Chair Responsibilities:

    1. Suggested sobriety: 2 years.
    2. Attend all (no less than 6) Area Grapevine Committee meetings and report to the district on Grapevine activities.
    3. Form and maintain a District 4 Grapevine Committee made up of Group Grapevine Representatives (GVRs) and other interested members.
    4. At District meetings, inform GSRs of the availability of Grapevine products.
    5. Provide “Grapevine” and “La Viña” subscription forms at each District Committee meeting.

    GSR School Committee, Panel 74

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    Panel 74 Chair: Debra Lund (562) 338-8255
    debra.lund2@gmail.com

    GSR School orientation for new GSR’s is TBD.

    Responsibilities

    Suggested sobriety: 2 years.

    Conduct a brief orientation for new GSRs one half-hour prior to the District GSR meeting (or at another agreed-upon time) and encourage them to attend the Area GSR School.

    Participate as a member of the Area GSR School Committee.

    Introduce new GSRs during the District Committee meeting.

    Provide new GSRs with a copy of the “District 4 Guidelines,” “The A. A. Service Manual” pamphlets, and other General Service training material.

    Maintain custody of GSR School material. Distribute literature, as available, to new GSRs.

    Provide contribution envelopes from District 4, the Mid-Southern California Area 09, and G.S.O. to new GSRs.

    LGBTQ Committee, Panel 74

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    Chair: Jesse L

    email: LGBTQ@longbeachaa.org

    Your District 04 LGBTQ+ Committee is working to strengthen the district’s ability to carry the message to the LGBTQ+ community and to all who have a desire to stop drinking. We are inclusive to alcoholics who consider themselves a part of sexual, gender, and romantic minorities. We want your experiences in AA to be a part of our LGBTQ+ voice and to use our collective experience, strength, and hope to make AA more accessible to current and future LGBTQ+ alcoholics.

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