Groups
The basic unit or building block of any 12 Step fellowship is this entity.
What is known as "The Group."
This C.A. Service body is responsible for electing delegates who will then attend C.A.'s Annual World Services Conference.
What is the C.A. Area.
This District or Area Committee hands out sobriety medallions and pamphlets and is commonly referred to as...
What is "Chips and Literature."
It's about principles before personalities.
What is Tradition Twelve
This Concept states that the final responsibility and the ultimate authority for C.A. World Services should always reside in this collective conscience.
What is the whole Fellowship as expressed in the annual World Service Conference.
Group are autonomous except in...
What are matters affecting other Groups or the fellowship as a whole.
Our service structure is often referred to as this upside-down Egyptian building.
What is an Inverted Pyramid.
This Standing Committee concerns itself with the notion that we live together or die alone.
What is Unity.
Our common welfare comes first.
What is Tradition One
This Concept states: Good service leaders, together with sound and appropriate methods of choosing them are at all levels indispensable for our future functioning and safety.
What is Concept Nine.
Membership in a 12 Step Fellowship must NEVER depend upon this.
What is money or conformity.
Its a time-tested manual of parliamentary procedure.
What are Robert's Rules of Order.
This Committee handles the money.
What is the Finance or Treasury Committee.
No Outside Affiliations.
What is Tradition Six
This Concept give the minority opinion "The Right of Appeal."
What is Concept Five.
This Tradition states that a Group's purpose is to carry its message to those who suffer from addiction.
What is Tradition Five.
This 19th Century temperance movement had discovered the answer to alcoholism, but they had no Tradition Six or Ten they were soon beset by internal and external strife and division and disappeared forever.
Who were the Washingtonians.
This Committee preserves our history.
What is Archives.
Any change to the Twelve Traditions or the Twelve Concepts must adhere to this immutable requirement.
What is “written consent of three-quarters of all C.A. groups” in the world!
This Concept states that every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority.
What is Concept Ten.
Tradition Two states a Group has but one authority.
A loving God as it may express itself in our group conscience.
This Tradition states we ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
What is Tradition Nine.
This Committee works with clients and inmates in treatment facilities and jails.
What is Hospitals & Institutions.
This Tradition states that Cocaine Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the C.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
What is Tradition 10.
This Concept says, "No action should ever be personally punitive or an incitement to public controversy."
What is Concept Twelve.