Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC)

Members of CPC committees inform professionals and future professionals about A.A.

Committees focus on:

  • Establishing better communication with professionals working with alcoholics
  • Finding simple, effective ways of cooperating without affiliating
  • Explaining clearly what A.A. does and doesn’t do

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The CPC desk utilizes LinkedIn to connect with professionals and make A.A. available.

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CPC Workbook

This workbook is intended as a guide for A.A. members involved in Cooperation with the Professional Community work.

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CPC Kit

The CPC kit contains the workbook and a selection of pamphlets, guidelines and order forms associated with CPC work.

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Digital CPC Cards

GSO’s Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC) staff assignment regularly receives requests for professionally produced materials that can be used locally by Cooperation with the Professional Community committees and members in their service work.

  1. To that end, we have created a CPC Service Card in digital template format which is available to download for local use. 
  2. The digital template includes two sections on the card that allows for input of local contact information or a locally developed QR code to be placed on it by local AA members performing CPC service.
  3.  If anyone has any questions about this card, please contact the CPC Coordinator at (212) 870-3107 or email questions to cpc@aa.org.
  4.  This card can be produced as a poster, flyer, distributed digitally, or added into a presentation.
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Are you a new CPC committee chairperson?

There are a variety of resources for new committee chairs, many of them free of charge. Once you are listed with GSO as the new committee chair, we'll automatically send you the appropriate materials to help you in your service position.

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Suggested Committee Activities

  • Hold workshops for members who want to learn about CPC Twelfth Step service and how to share information about Alcoholics Anonymous with professionals they may come in contact with in their daily lives.
  • Contact local professional schools that train future health care, legal/correctional or human resources/employment professionals and offer to do A.A. presentations.
  • Invite local professionals to a breakfast or luncheon with a presentation explaining how A.A. can be a resource.
  • Contact local court professionals and offer A.A. presentations.
  • Contact a military base or VA facility in your area to offer a presentation or meeting.
  • Contact local physicians, hospitals and clinics and arrange for A.A. literature to be available in their waiting rooms, and develop a plan for how to keep the literature stocked.
  • Utilize the About A.A. newsletter in your CPC contacts with professionals.
  • Invite professionals and professional students to attend an open meeting.
  • Contact local professional organizations and offer A.A. presentations and/or investigate opportunities to have an A.A. table/exhibit at their meetings or conferences.
  • Create a display for use at professional meetings and conferences.

Share CPC Experience

The CPC desk at the A.A. General Service Office  is dedicated to CPC activities. Committees are encouraged to share local experiences and challenges with this desk in order to gather a broad range of CPC experience.

CONTACT THE CPC DESK
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Related Information

HOW A.A. MEMBERS COOPERATE WITH PROFESSIONALS
CPC PRESENTATION: LETS BE FRIENDLY WITH OUR FRIENDS
SPEAKING AT NON-A.A. MEETINGS
SEE ALL CPC RESOURCES
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AA Video for Employment/Human Resources Professionals

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AA Video for Legal and Corrections Professionals

AA Video for Healthcare Professionals

AA Video for Healthcare Professionals

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Discount Literature Packages

There are special literature packages available to CPC committees that are only available from the General Service Office. These packages are made available to committees at a discount so that it isn’t a burden to carry the message to large groups of people.

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