One time only, we’re moving the BTG committee meeting from Saturday the 5th to Saturday the 12th. The meeting will still be on Zoom for easy access.

If you were a part of the committee which put on Soberfest 2024, please plan on attending the wrap-up meeting on October 9th at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held in-person and on Zoom.

Does your meeting provide attendance verification? Do you want people to know that?

If the answer to both these questions is yes, we have good news. Because of a recent software upgrade, there is now an option in the Meetings List to show that proof of meeting attendance is available.

At the moment, it only shows on the website meetings page:

But it will show up in the Meeting Guide app later.

If you want your meeting to have the Proof of Attendance flag set, please contact Carol Ann at Central Office at tccof@hotmail.com , or, find your meeting on this website and click the “Request a change to this listing” button.

Are you looking to help your own sobriety and make a meaningful difference in your community? Unleash the power of sobriety through volunteering!

By dedicating your time and energy to helping others, you can find purpose, build connections, and foster personal growth. We have opportunities available ;-)

Hospitals and Institutions (H&I) is a Ninth Tradition service committee which carries the message of A.A. to the alcoholic in Corrections and Treatment facilities in California. This new page has links to the NorCal H&I website, flyers for programs, and the current financial report. It also has the information on where to send money collected via the Pink Can.

Bridging The Gap (BTG) is a Ninth Tradition service committee which provides temporary contact with someone coming out of treatment or incarceration. Your role is to meet them at their first meeting and introduce them to the members there. To facilitate this, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office will set up a Zoom meeting, so you can meet the person before they are released. This new web page has the application form for TCSO.

Both pages have meeting times and dates for their committees. Both pages have been added to the main menu of our website.

Embrace the transformative journey of recovery and service – start volunteering today for a brighter, sober future. :-)

Part of Bridging the Gap between a treatment program and A.A. is the Temporary Contact Program, which is designed to help the alcoholic in an alcoholism treatment program make that transition.

As you know, one of the more “slippery” places in the journey to sobriety is between the door of the facility and the nearest A.A. group or meeting. Some of us can tell you that, even though we heard of A.A. in treatment, we were too fearful to go.

A.A. experience suggests that attending meetings regularly is critical. To bridge the gap, A.A. members volunteer to be temporary contacts and introduce newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous.

We need these volunteers.

One of the efforts of our Bridging The Gap committee is to arrange temporary contact with people coming out of the Tulare County Sheriff’s RSAT program. If you are willing to establish contact with one of these newcomers and meet them at their first meeting, please join us!

Our next Bridging The Gap committee meeting will be July 6, at 11 AM, on Zoom only.

The Tulare County Sheriff inmate programs office has an automatic meeting application form.

You can fill out that application form, for free, using the Firefox web browser. Please send the edited and saved form to Carol Ann at Central Office. Carol Ann will email it to the Tulare County Sheriff inmate programs office.

If you are looking for an opportunity to be of service, please join our Bridging The Gap committee. :-)

Please join us at Mooney’s Grove Park in Visalia this Saturday, June 8. We will have games and fellowship and food for our AA community, celebrating the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous 89 years ago.

Would you like to volunteer to help with our Founder’s Day Picnic? Our Founder’s Day Picnic will be June 8, 2024. The Founder’s Day Picnic is always an enjoyable event, with food, fun, and fellowship. You can help with that too! :-)

We will have six planning meetings between now and then, every two weeks. The planning meeting will be in-person, at the Central Office, 449 E Maple St in Exeter. But also, you can join via Zoom.

We already have some service positions filled, but many more are still available. Please don’t hesitate to call Carol Ann at the Central Office (559) 592-6999, or David G at (559) 300-9811 (if you aren’t in David G’s contacts list, you’ll have to leave a voicemail) or John W at (559) 281-3744.

The Keep It Simple Sunday (K.I.S.S.) meeting in Visalia is an outdoor meeting: we move the time twice a year to warmer or cooler times. Beginning June 2nd, we will meet at 9 AM instead of 10 AM. Please tell your friends.

Would you like to know what will be on the agenda at the General Service Conference in New York? Would you like to be able to give your GSR some informed feedback, as he or she presents your group’s opinion at the Pre-Conference Assembly? Then the District 47 Agenda Item Workshop 2024 is for you. It will be held at the Visalia Alano Club, from 2 PM to 4 PM on Sunday the 24th.

This year, the NorCal and SoCal Hospitals & Institutions Committees are jointly holding their annual conference in Bakersfield. If you are a part of H & I, this is a conference will not want to miss. And if you are not a part of H & I, but would like to find out why H & I is so rewarding, this would be a great opportunity to find out.