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.

5 Individuals contributed in September for $151.99 total, 8 people contributed to the Grateful Giver’s Club totaling $1, 447.61 (1 anonymous donor gave us $1,000!). 10 Groups contributed to Central Office totaling $1,746.01 (1 of those groups represents 20 meetings), DID YOUR GROUP CONTRIBUTE TO CENTRAL OFFICE? We had 3 members celebrating a birthday donate to the Birthday Club for a total of $82.00! We sold $1,475.90 worth of books and merchandise for a total income of $4,903.51 for the month of September! We need your support, thank you to those who contributed to Central Office!

There are a lot of Alcoholics in Tulare County who are sober today and attend meeting that are on our website. Please spread the word that Central Office is your main office for Alcoholics Anonymous in Tulare County. We are totally self supporting but our Monthly expenses are causing is to lose ground on keeping up the prudent preserve we have established as of operating expenses money of $19,000. We are currently below that prudent reserve, and we count on you to keep this office financially sound!

THANK YOU FOR COMMUNICATING THIS TO YOUR GROUPS!

Thank you to all of you who contribute to help us continue to share the message of recovery!

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.

Come join us in person or via Zoom

We will be meeting before our monthly CSR meeting here at Tulare County Central Office 449 E Maple St Exeter, CA 93257

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. :-)

In observance of the holiday

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.