Ithaca Area Intergroup

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Ithaca Area Intergroup — is a local AA service group; established and supported by AA groups and members, to help carry the AA message within Tompkins County. It is a partnership of AA groups just as an AA group is a partnership of individuals.
Intergroup Representatives (voting members) are appointed by each home group and Officers and Service Representatives (non-voting members) are volunteers or are elected.
Intergroup exists to aid home groups in carrying the AA message to the alcoholic who still suffers and is responsible for:

  • The meeting of all group representatives gathering to do the joint work of AA in Ithaca through the monthly Intergroup meeting.
  • Providing an answering service with a list of AA volunteers willing to speak with the caller and accompany interested individuals to a meeting.
  • Maintaining and distributing up-to-date meetings list. In addition to the full meeting list on this website, groups can get supplies of printed lists for their meetings free of charge.
  • Printing and distributing blue cards. Blue Cards are sold in packs of 25 for $5 and 50 for $8.
  • You can order Blue Cards by using our Blue Card Order Form.
  • Organizing 12th step opportunities for AA members in Tompkins County through the Institutions Committee.
  • Providing information on treatment facilities, hospitals, correctional facilities and other institutions to the AA recovery community and furnish information to those facilities about the recovery message of AA through the Public Information/Cooperating with the Professional Community Committee known as PI/CPC.

INSTITUTIONS COMMITTEE OF ITHACA INTERGROUP —

“Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail.” Alcoholics Anonymous, page 89

Institutions Committee coordinates the work of individual AA members and home groups who are interested in carrying our message of recovery to alcoholics residing in treatment and corrections facilities and hospitals.

Institutions Committee meetings are held via Zoom on the last Tuesday of the month at 7pm. All AA’s who attend local AA meetings are welcome to attend this meeting.

“All people responsible for meetings concur that the more outside AA members who participate, the better. The alcoholic then has an opportunity to hear varied A.A. talks and has a better chance to identify.” A.A. Guidelines, Treatment Committees

For current volunteer opportunities to take meetings into nearby institutions, please click
here: Institutions Volunteer Opportunities. We look forward to your service.

Public Information and Cooperation with the Profession Community Committees of Ithaca Intergroup —
“In all public relations, A.A.’s sole objective is to help the still suffering alcoholic. Always mindful of the importance of personal anonymity we believe this can be done by making known to him and to those who may be interested in his problems, our own experience as individuals and as a Fellowship in learning to live without alcohol. We believe that our experience should be made available freely to all who express sincere interest. We believe further that all efforts in this field should always reflect our gratitude for the gift of sobriety and our awareness that many outside A.A. are equally concerned with the serious problem of alcoholism.”  Public Information Workbook p.5-6 

The Public Information Committee provides essential services which may be altered or amplified by the P.I. committee as opportunities emerge. Examples are personal delivery of pamphlets to the probation department, places of worship, shelters, treatment courts, medical facilities, schools and universities. Media in its many forms (print, broadcast, and the internet) is designed to help the still suffering alcoholic.  Alcoholics Anonymous (www.aa.org) provides public service announcements (A.A. made the Difference) and short videos (Sobriety in AA- my drinking built a wall). These are two examples of the many available.  Always we keep in mind that the PI Committee serves to inform the general public about the A.A. program. 

Cooperation with the Professional Community came into being as a distinct entity in 1970 and was formed as an outgrowth of Public Information. The purpose of C.P.C. services is to carry the A.A. message to the still-suffering alcoholic by providing information about A.A. to professionals who have contact with alcoholics. It is clearly understood that P.I. and C.P.C. committees work within our primary purpose and are not in competition.  

Public Information and Cooperation with the Professional Community Committee meetings are held via Zoom on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7pm. All A.A.’s who attend local meetings are welcome to attend this meeting. We look forward to your service. 

Intergroup, Institutions and PI/CPC Meetings–

Ithaca Area Intergroup meeting is the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.
Zoom ID ID 951 2009 8860
password: BillsStory

Institutions Committee meets on the last Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m.
Zoom ID 913 2281 1059
password: 12Steps

PI/CPC meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.
In-Person | Fireside Room at the Presbyterian Church
315 N Cayuga St Ithaca, NY 14850
No Zoom Option for PI/CPC Monthly Meeting.