Meeting Makers Make It ... but they need to know where the meetings are!
This online listing of A. A. meetings in the Orange County, California vicinity is put together from many sources, including local and central office meeting directories, the listings of local clubs, and direct information from the groups and members involved. [Note]
It is offered as a free service to those who need it, and is unaffiliated with any official body in the area.
As with all we do in A. A., we rely on each other for meeting information. At present, not only are untold meetings not listed at all, but the information available on many is doubtful, sometimes listed by one source but not another, sometimes with contradictory listings. Where this is especially important to clear up, we have added a little pop-up [Note], alerting the viewer and asking for help.
Please let us know (s.i.meetings@gmail.com) of any corrections, additions, subtractions and other suggestions you may have – so that, together, we can let those who need them know where the meetings are.
— Unless otherwise specified, all meetings are open to anyone with an interest in recovery from alcoholism.
— “Closed” meetings are only for those who themselves have a “desire to stop drinking”.
— You may generally assume that there is no smoking in the meetings.
— The © symbol next to an address indicates that it is wheelchair-accessible.
— To make finding the meetings easier, out of respect for our hosts, we have tried to fully identify the locations in which we meet.
— Where we did have to shorten names, we apologize. For example, while all Methodists are in fact United, the extra word doesn't fit well in the lines.
— We have also added links to Maps for each meeting, and the links themselves contain (as a pop-up) the Thomas Guide coordinates.
— The meeting format, unless made clear in the group name, is shown below the address.
— If only the format is known, the space for a group name is left blank.
— If there really is no A. A. group, however, it is not really an A. A. meeting at all. Please advise!
— Genuine A. A. meetings, and the groups that hold them, are not – should never be – affiliated in any way with any locations in which they are held, whether they be hospitals, schools, clubs, treatment or community centers, etc.
As of mid-October, 2008, we had listed 1,273 English-language A. A. meetings in Orange County, scattered among 43 separate towns ... and as many pages. The 329 Spanish-language meetings were likewise spread among 17 localized pages.
Our idea in this listing has been, not only to help someone find a single meeting (where they might purchase a printed directory), but to allow as well a broad overview of the meetings in their area ... and beyond.
With that in mind, it seems more useful to combine pages of adjacent towns, though within manageable limits (110-150 meetings per page). This ought to make such an overview even broader, and somewhat lessen the need to jump from page to page.
As a secondary benefit of this method, it may also promote a somewhat broader overall sense of A. A. itself than we might normally have from day to day – an Alcoholics Anonymous beyond our own group, neighborhood and town.
For those who still have a use for the pages devoted to individual cities or towns, they remain and can easily be reached from links on the larger pages.
This particular arrangement, of course, may prove not the most useful. Comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated.
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Spanish-Language Meetings [Guía de reuniones en español] Aliso Viejo Anaheim Anaheim [En español] Anaheim Hills Avalon (LA) Balboa Island Brea Buena Park Buena Park [En español] Capistrano Beach Catalina Island (LA) Cerritos (LA) |
Corona Del Mar Costa Mesa Costa Mesa [En español] Cypress Dana Point Fountain Valley Fullerton Fullerton [En español] Garden Grove Garden Grove [En español] Huntington Beach Huntington Beach [En español] |
Irvine Laguna Beach Laguna Beach [En español] Laguna Hills Laguna Niguel Laguna Woods La Habra La Habra [En español] Lake Forest Lake Forest [En español] La Mirada (LA) La Palma |
Las Flores Los Alamitos Mission Viejo Newport Beach Orange Orange [En español] Placentia Placentia [En español] Rancho Santa Margarita San Clemente San Clemente [En español] San Juan Capistrano |
Santa Ana Santa Ana [En español] Seal Beach Stanton [En español] Sunset Beach Tustin Tustin [En español] Villa Park Westminster Westminster [En español] Whittier (LA) Whittier [En español] Yorba Linda |
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