Welcome

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of men and women who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. The ACA program was founded on the belief that family dysfunction is a disease that infected us as children and affects us as adults. Our membership also includes adults from homes where alcohol or drugs were not present; however, abuse, neglect or unhealthy behavior was.

We meet to share our experience and recovery in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We discover how alcoholism and other family dysfunction affected us in the past and how it influences us in the present. We begin to see the unhealthy elements of our childhood. By practicing the Twelve Steps, focusing on the ACA Solution, and accepting a loving Higher Power of our own understanding, we find freedom.

Midwest Regional Service Committee

Tradition Two: For our group purpose there is but on ultimate authority – a loving God as expressed in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants, the do not govern.
Tradition Four: Each group is autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or ACA as a whole. We cooperate with all other Twelve Step programs.
Tradition Five: Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the adult child who still suffers.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much – Helen Keller

 

ACA Intergroups are formed to provide a forum for conducting ACA business within a geographical area. The Intergroup helps coordinate helpline functions, public information efforts, hospitals and institutions meetings and ACA events in a given area.

A Regional Service Committee serves a similar function by helping coordinate ACA functions and fellowship business among Intergroups in a geographical area.

• Do you want help finding or starting a meeting in your area?
• Do you need help starting or resourcing an Intergroup in your area?
• Do you have something that you want to bring to the attention to the WSO?
• Would you like to see a program in this region that should be more widely available?

The Midwest Regional Service Committee can help!

You are now at the Midwest Regional Service Committee website. We serve serve and coordinate the work and needs of the Intergroups and groups in the Midwest. These Intergroups include:

• West Great Lakes
• Northeast Wisconsin
• Minnesota
• Metro Detroit
• Indianapolis Area
• Missouri & Southern Illinois
• Southwest Ohio
• and groups in North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa & Nebraska who have ACA groups but no active Intergroups at this time.

This Midwest Regional Service committee is still in the process of being organized. Please stop back from time to time as we establish ourselves and the work we have to do.