Hello Area 46,
Welcome to 2021! I hope every-one stayed safe and enjoyed the holiday seasons in good health. Our December Area Assembly was fantastic. The Corrections committee meeting was well attended and I got some great ideas for helping us carry the message of recovery to our brothers and sisters.
My motion to the Area to provide up to $350 to purchase postage-paid envelopes was approved and I was very excited. However, since the Assembly I received the GSO of AA Corrections Activity Update letter. In their letter they state: “Currently the waiting list has been fulfilled. Since the pandemic we have a substantial reserve of outside male / female correspondents; we will continue to welcome male / female volunteers, but we inform them that there may be a wait of several months before they can be linked with inmates.” So, the purchase of envelopes won’t be necessary until summer. I still encourage anyone who is interested in being a correspondent with an in-mate to go ahead and complete and submit the Corrections Correspondent Sign-Up Form found on the aa.org website.
In the meantime, I’m going to implement the AA Meeting Card idea I spoke about last month with the plan to distribute them into parole and probation offices, but I’m going to need your help, please. If you are a group or district Corrections chair, please contact me via email (correc-tions@dev.aa-nia.org) and provide your name, phone number, group Name or district number and I’ll make every effort to get some AA Meeting Cards to you including the basic instructions for completing and distributing the cards. Thank you for your assistance in helping me get this started.
Gratefully yours in service,
Jimmy F.
Area Corrections Chair