ACA Georgia Intergroup

Serving Fellowships of Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families in the state of Georgia

Our Mission

The ACA Georgia Intergroup is a regional organization within the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) fellowship, serving the state of Georgia. It comprises ACA meetings and members from various areas within Georgia who come together to support and promote the ACA program.

The primary purpose of the ACA Georgia Intergroup is to facilitate and enhance the ACA recovery experience for individuals in Georgia. This includes coordinating events, maintaining a dedicated website, hotline, distributing ACA literature, and assisting newcomers in finding ACA meetings throughout the state.

The driving purpose of this ACA Georgia Intergroup website is to serve as a central hub for ACA-related activities and resources in Georgia, ensuring that those who grew up in dysfunctional families in this region have access to the support and guidance they need on their journey of healing and recovery.

What is ACA?

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)/Dysfunctional Families is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of men and women who grew up in dysfunctional homes.

We meet to share our experience of growing up in an environment where abuse, neglect and trauma infected us. This affects us today and influences how we deal with all aspects of our lives.

ACA provides a safe, nonjudgmental environment that allows us to grieve our childhoods and conduct an honest inventory of ourselves and our family—so we may (i) identify and heal core trauma, (ii) experience freedom from shame and abandonment, and (iii) become our own loving parents.

Source: adultchildren.org

What is an Intergroup?

ACA, like most other organizations, has a structure which begins with individuals forming ACA groups. The groups form Intergroups to help facilitate open communication and sharing of ideas in their geographical area and to carry the ACA message into treatment centers and other facilities. Intergroup helps the groups explore ideas of carrying the message within a given community.

Intergroups and ACA World Service Organization (WSO) serve as a resource for the groups, and the groups, in turn, are encouraged to provide willing trusted servants to do the good work of ACA at the Intergroup, Regional, and WSO levels.

While WSO and Intergroups can and do provide guidance to ACA meetings, when asked, they ultimately must step back and let meetings decide for themselves how to run their particular meeting.