Adult Children of Alcoholics is a step program created for individuals who come from broken, dysfunctional, alcoholic families. A safe place for members, the group is similar to Alcoholics Anonymous or Al-Anon , as it has a similar format and guide to work through the 12 steps of the program , but it was created for individuals who suffer from growing up in a household of dysfunctionality.
The program focuses on emotional sobriety for its members, allowing them to cleanse their minds, bodies and spirits. While it is similar to Al-Anon, it helps members focus on themselves without blaming themselves, rather than focusing on the alcoholic in their family. Adult Children of Alcoholics meetings are similar in format to Al-Anon, but the focus is more for members to discuss their own issues. Many members have experiences of abuse, neglect and fear that need to be addressed and the meetings are in place to allow these individuals a safe place for them to share and discuss their experiences, strengths and hopes.
Every meeting gives members a place to openly discuss their own feelings. The meetings are in place to provide members the opportunity to discuss more than just their dysfunctional families; but a place to discuss everything they are feeling and experiencing.
The program has its own literature and meeting formats so that newcomers can feel welcome and understand what the meeting is for and why it is important for them to attend. The program began when members of the Alateen meetings realized they were having issues connecting and relating with members of Al-Anon. Tony and the few members from Alateen decided to create a program that would allow individuals to come together and discuss their experiences, as well as focus on the recovery of living in alcoholic families.
While the program did adapt to the same style as other self-help programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, Tony and another member, Don D.
While the program is similar in the concept of other step programs, the focus of the program is much different. Adult Children of Alcoholics works because it provides members a way to heal their minds, bodies and spirits. Obtaining emotional sobriety is crucial to obtaining true peace and happiness, which is something members can find in the program after they begin working the steps. The program works for those who work it.
Adult Children of Alcoholics is a safe place for members to know that they are not alone. Canada Community Revitalization Fund. Jobs and Growth Fund. Tourism Relief Fund. Atlantic Policy Research Initiative. Business Development Program. Canadian Coal Transition Initiative. Canadian Experience Fund. Community Futures. Innovation Communities Fund. Regional Economic Growth through Innovation. Al-Anon was very helpful, a significant part of my healing from the collateral damage of growing up amidst alcoholism.
It helped shift the focus from my alcoholic parent and addicted family to my own behavior. Yet, there was something missing. In my 40s, I discovered the missing piece; I was an adult child of an alcoholic. I first heard of ACA in and immediately felt a resonance.
At last there was a name for what I was experiencing, and there were others like me who knew what it was like to have an addict or alcoholic as a parent or caregiver. I wasn't alone. There was high energy, enthusiasm and interest in ACoA groups for many years, followed by a decline of meetings and struggles in the program.
In more recent years, due to the hard work of some ACA pioneers and others in the movement, there has been a resurgence. It was in that the name first emerged, Adult Children of Alcoholics.
ACA began with a group of Alateens who eventually became young adults and wanted a program more specific to their needs and issues of concern. Soon they were joined by a recovering alcoholic known as Tony A. Tony grew up in an abusive alcoholic home and noticed a set of behaviors that, in his observation, were common to himself and others who were raised in families with alcoholism or addiction.
He listed 14 traits or characteristics that have lovingly become known as "The Laundry List. In , the idea for an ACA basic text was ignited. The term "adult child" is used to describe adults who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes and who exhibit identifiable traits that reveal past abuse or neglect. The group includes adults raised in homes without the presence of alcohol or drugs. These ACA members have the trademark presence of abuse, shame, and abandonment found in alcoholic homes.
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