Groups
The basic unit or building block of a 12 Step fellowship is this entity.
What is a Group.
This Service body is responsible for electing delegates who will then attend the 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 World Services should always reside in the collective conscience of the whole Fellowship.
What is Concept One.
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 acknowledges the "power of the purse" and recognizes an area, district or group's right to withhold funding.
What is Concept Seven.
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 Board handles the day-to-day general operations of the global Fellowship.
What is the World Service Office Board.
This Tradition states that Cocaine Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the fellowship's name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
What is Tradition 10.
This Concept states that every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority.
What is Concept Ten.
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 C.A. recently amended its 11th Tradition dropping ...at the level of "press, radio, television and films" and replacing it with this all inclusive phrase.
What is at the level of "all public media."
This Concept says, "No action should ever be personally punitive or an incitement to public controversy."
What is Concept Twelve.