Welcome to Area B's PI&PA Service
To reach more alcoholics, understanding of AA and public goodwill towards AA must go on growing everywhere. We need to be on still better terms with medicine, religion, employers, government, courts, prisons, mental health facilities, and all enterprises in the alcoholic field. We need the ever-increasing goodwill of editors, writers, television, and radio channels. These publicity outlets need to be opened ever wider.
The aim of PI is to improve communications with professionals and the public sector and show how we can cooperate with organisations to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
This achieved in two ways:
- Informing the public about the AA programme
- Through professionals whose work may involve the active alcoholic
In all public relations, AA’s only objective is to help the still suffering alcoholic, ever mindful of AA’s 11th Tradition “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.”
All PI&CPC activities should conform to the principles outlined in AA’s Traditions, Concepts, the Public Information Workbook and related PI&CPC guidelines.
- Guideline 4– Information on Alcoholics Anonymous
- Guideline 7– Public Information & Co-Operation with the Professional Community
- Guideline 10– Armed Services
- Guideline 17– For AA Members Employed in the Alcoholism Field
- Guideline 19– Forming Local Committees on Co-Operation with the Professional Community
- Guideline 21– AA and Industry
- Guideline 24– AA Co-Operation in Research & Non-AA Survey Projects
- Guideline 25– Public Information: Convening Dinners / Luncheons
- Guideline 26– Operation of the National AA Website www.aa.org.au
- Guideline 29– Speaking at Schools
- Guideline 31– Presenting AA Television Community Service Announcements
- Guideline 34– AA Child Safety Guideline
The basic function of the Area B PI&PA is to assist the District and local CSO PI&PA groups by:
- Maintaining a portfolio of official contacts within industries (e.g. Health, Welfare, Legal, Defence, Religious and Education), and professionals, who support clients that may benefit by exposure to AA’s recovery program
- Maintaining a list of available AA speakers
- Providing a broad range of PI&PA literature tools, including Area’s 2 x PI Banners which may be used by any Group in Area B engaging in PI&PA events.
- Assisting AA Groups or members wishing to engage in local PI&PA service work
Area B’s PI&PA Service Group is coordinated by the Area B ER PI&PA coordinator who also chairs the service Committee. For more information or to get involved, email pipa@aaareaber.org.au
PI&PA Resources
- Speaking at Non-A.A. Meetings
- Doing PI drop-offs to medical providers in our community
- AA as a resource for the Health Care Professional
- AA and the Armed Services
- Alcoholics Anonymous as a Resource For Drug & Alcohol Court Professionals
- Alcoholics Anonymous in your Community
- Correctional Facilities Kit Contents
- Public Information Kit Contents
- Public Information Workbook
- Cooperation with the Professional Community Workbook
- Faith Leaders ask about Alcoholics Anonymous
- For Volunteers Staffing and AA Exhibit
- How AA members Cooperate with Professionals
- If You are a professional … Alcoholics Anonymous wants to work with You
- Is there a problem Drinker in the Workplace?
- Presentation: “What AA. is and What it is Not” (to Treatment Facility Administrators and Professional Staff)
- Public Information Suggestions for Local PI Activity
- Carrying the AA Message in the Community (US)
- Videos for professionals (UK)
- Cochrane Report– The largest, most rigorous independent study on Alcoholics Anonymous to date shows that AA can help people get sober, stay sober, drink less, and suffer fewer negative consequences of drinking, all while keeping health care costs down. Watch scientists John Kelly (Harvard/MGH) and Keith Humphreys (Stanford/VA) discuss their findings (published 3/11/20 by the Cochrane Collaborative), with commentary from psychologist Gabrielle Jones.