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Correnctional Facilities Duties and qualifications quoted from The AA Service Manual Combined with Twelve Concepts for World Service, 2004-2005 Edition, pg S56. Other Officers quoted from pg 51. OtherOfficers 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. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES (trustees’ Correctional Facilities Committee) Encourages A.A. members to assume responsibility for carrying the message to alcoholics behind the walls, reviews all aspects of service to A.A. groups in correctional facilities, and makes recommendations for changes and/or improvements. It is also concerned with clarifying what A.A. can and cannot do, within the Traditions, to help inmate alcoholics both inside and upon release. SWTA Southwest Texas Area segment Extracted and edited from Service Structure and Procedures Southwest Texas Area Assembly, 2004 English. The Southwest Texas Correctional Conference will be annual function of the Southwest Texas Area. CFC members in the SWTA will conduct an annual Correctional Conference Workshop. The purpose of the Workshop is to provide information to prospective CFC members regarding service opportunities in all levels of Federal, State and local Criminal Justice Systems, and to foster and promote greater understanding and cooperative between CFC member volunteers and the administration of those Criminal Justice Systems. The Workshop will be rotated among various cities within the SWTA determined by CFC members. The newly determined host city will elect a Conference Chairperson who will work closely with the SWTA CFC Chairperson. Seed money will be provided to the Conference Chairperson by the SWTA Treasurer prior to the next annual Conference. All funds remaining after Conference expenses have been met will be forwarded to the SWTA Treasurer. The funds, after the return of the seed money, will be equally divided between the SWTA General Fund and the SWTA CFC Literature Fund. The SWTA Area Service Committee Chairperson rotating out shall provide “Guidelines” in writing to the incoming chairperson |