Telephone
Fax No:
Email Address
Postal Address
+27 21 418 0908
+27 21 418 0908
westerncape@aasouthafrica.org.za
Unit 502, 5th Floor
Boland Bank Building
18 Lower Burg Street
Cape Town
8001
“Closed” meetings
are for A.A. members only, or for those who have a drinking problem and “have a desire to stop drinking.”
“Open” meetings
are available to anyone interested in Alcoholics Anonymous’ program of recovery from alcoholism. Nonalcoholics may attend open meetings as observers.
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 the transition into AA. One of the most ‘slipper’ places in the journey of sobriety is between the door of the treatment facility and the nearest A.A. group or meeting.
As a BTG volunteer, you can introduce the program of Alcoholics Anonymous to newcomers. When you sign up as a temporary contact, your name is placed on the Bridge the Gap volunteer list (database), along with the information you provide. When someone in treatment requests a BTG contact, a BTG committee member matches that person’s name with a temporary contact volunteer.
If you agree to become a temporary contact, please take some time to become familiar with the BTG guidelines below.
As a volunteer member of the Bridge the Gap program, your commitment consists of introducing your new contact to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous in his or her community. Treatment facility patients who have signed-up to have a temporary contact will be expecting you to:
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