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Meeting Makers Make It ... but they need to know where the meetings are!
This online listing of A. A. meetings in the San Bernardino County area 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 us know where to find us.
— Unless otherwise specified, all meetings are open to anyone with an interest in recovery from alcoholism.
— Likewise, unless specified as a ‘Speaker’ meeting, you may expect ‘Participation’ of some sort.
— “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 these listings more accessible, we have when possible combined meetings in neighboring areas into a single page.
— To make finding the meetings easier, and 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 added links to Maps for each meeting; the links also 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 some 424 A. A. meetings in San Bernardino County, scattered among 26 separate towns ... and as many pages.
Our idea in this listing has been, not only to help someone find a single meeting (where they might purchase a printed meeting list), but to allow as well a broad overview of the meetings in their area ... and beyond.
With that in mind, it seemed more useful to combine the meetings of adjacent towns into just 6 pages, which still allows a manageable size (63-98 meetings per page, as it turned out here). This ought to make such an overview simpler, as well as lessen the need to jump from page to page.
As a secondary benefit of this method, it may also promote a somewhat greater 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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