Treatment Facilities
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Duties and qualifications quoted from The AA Service Manual Combined with Twelve Concepts for World Service, 2004-2005 Edition, pg S57. Other Officers quoted from pg 51.

Other Officers

An area committee usually has other officers who are responsible to the committee for special activities. Examples are public information and cooperation with the professional community chairs to head up the area P.I. and C.P.C. committees; correctional and treatment facilities chairs to coordinate this vital Twelfth Step work; a literature chairperson to act as a liaison between various service entities; a Grapevine and La Viña chairperson to disseminate information on the magazines and other Grapevine materials; an archives chairperson to gather area history and maintain the area archives; a convention chairperson to facilitate this event; a finance chairperson to encourage self-support for both area needs and those of G.S.O.; a liaison chairperson to foster communication between the area and the central office/intergroup; and other committee assignments and responsibilities as suggested by area needs.

TREATMENT FACILITIES (Trustees’ Committee on C.P.C./Treatment Facilities) Coordinates the work of individual A.A. members and groups who carry the message to alcoholics in treatment facilities, sets up means of bridging the gap from treatment to A.A., and works to clarify what A.A. can and cannot do, within the Traditions, to help alcoholics in treatment. TRUSTEES (Trustees’ Nominating Committee): Reviews all resumes of nominees for the General Service Board and corporate board directors and presents the slates to the Conference for disapproval, if any.Members of this committee are part of the voting body that nominates regional and at-large trustees during the week of the Conference.

SWTA

The SWTA Area Service Committee Chairperson rotating out shall provide “Guidelines” in writing to the incoming chairperson