PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

Al-Anon Family Groups has been in existence for 50 years as a community resource providing support to those affected by someone else's drinking.

Is there a problem with alcohol?

• Do you need some answers for you and your client/patient/employee?
• Do you want to help a family in crisis?
  
  It the answer is yes to either of the above questions,
  then the following page links may help:
  
  
• Are you concerned about someone's drinking habits?
• Did you know?
• Is Al-Anon for you?

Why attend an Al-Anon Group?

People are Referred to Group Meetings at:

• Al-Anon
• Alateen
• Al-Anon Adult Children of Alcoholics (AACA)
  
  
  • To learn the facts about alcoholism as an illness and to fully understand how it has affected their lives physically and emotionally.
  • To benefit from contact with others who have similar problems.
  • To improve their own attitudes and behaviours through the study and practice of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.
    
    
  For more information and facts about Al-Anon,
  the following page links may help:
  
  
• The history of Al-Anon
• The Twelve Steps

Help is at hand when you...

• Attend meetings on a regular basis.
• Make telephone call to other Al-Anon members.
• Read Al-Anon literature.
• Have a sponsor.
• Apply the Twelve Steps of Recovery to your life.
• Become involved in Al-Anon Service work.

Al-Anon Groups DO NOT...

• Give advice.
  

  We are not professionals merely family members of alcoholics.
  
  

• Indulge in gossip or criticism.
  

  We guard with special care the anonymity of our members and members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
  
  

• Discuss members religious beliefs or lack of them.
  

  Ours is a spiritual program of recovery embracing all or no belief systems.
  
  

• Endorse or oppose any cause, therapy or treatment.
  

  We have no opinion on outside issues other than providing hope by sharing our own personal experiences of recovery.
  
  

Al-Anon may be able to provide...

• Speakers for conferences, workshops, open days and meetings.
  

  Hear it first hand.
  
  

• Meetings at schools, institutions and other facilities.
  

  Sharing experiences and our programme of recovery with others.
  
  

• To contact one of our Area Offices to find out more information,
  please click on the "MEETINGS" button for the Area Offices locations.
  
• Literature.
  

  Pamphlets, Self-help recovery books and Posters.
  
  

• To find out more about our literature,
  please click on the "LITERATURE" button.
  

When Family and friends of problem drinkers meet, we give hope and comfort to one another, to learn how to live comfortably in spite of the effects of the disease of alcoholism.
Please read how our members share their experiences.

This is the official site of Al-Anon GSO South Africa produced
by grateful members carrying a message of hope.