“Fertile Ground”

Presented by Adhoc 121111 of Passaic County Area of NA

CBDM

Communication

“Collaboration Before It Was An IDT”

October 15, 2011Combined SSP Workshop

Passaic, NJ

PCASC Facts

Passaic County covers approximately 30 miles top to bottom197 sq miles, and a population of ~500,000.

3 inner cities in Passaic County

3 rural communities in Passaic County

Paterson pop 146,000 8 sq mi

Clifton pop 84,000 11 sq mi

Passaic pop 70,00 3 sq mi

Wayne pop 55,000 25 sq mi

Hawthorne pop 18,000 3 sq mi

W.Milford, Wanaque, Ringwood

pop 25,000 80 sq mi

Environmental Scan

“Spirituality is a relationship with reality” Living Clean, The Journey Continues, pg 58

December 11, 2011

Project Creation / Adhoc Formed

CBDM Implemented

January 13, 2011

Adhoc’s First Meeting

January 29, 2012Pompton Lakes, NJ

Passaic County

The Regions

Potential GSUDefined

February 19th, 2012

2nd meeting

“Collaboration Part 2”

February 26, 2012Combined CAR

Workshop

Planning The First Mock

March / April 2012

GSU Agenda

First GSU meeting

April 15, 2012

Clifton, NJ

Groups Host Mocks

April 2012 – July 2012

What’s In A Name?

Disagreements

GSUs start to develop unique feel (autonomize)

Aug 2012 – Jan 2013

“Core Group” Field Tester

Sunday October 14, 2012

Paterson, NJ

Presentation @ Silk City Area

Saturday January 12th, 2013

Passaic County Area Present

Benefits

Issues

Open Forum Topics

From Passaic Valley GSU in May 2012

Project #1: MentorshipDEFINITION OF THE MENTORSHIP SUB-COMMITTEE

• To provide understanding, training, and guidance in matters affecting our local service system.

• To cater to the needs of groups who may not have the time or resources to dedicate to guide new or potential trusted servants.

• To identify topics and issues that come up in the GSUs and create workshops and learning days to help address those items.

• To create a Passaic County Area local service pool to address the specific needs of the delivery of services.

• To facilitate and present a service workshop at the Area Service meeting, except in March when elections occur.

• To help create a better trained and more informed level of trusted servant to help foster unity and more successfully carry the message to the addict who still suffers.

http://www.passaicarea.org/mentorship.html

Project #2: Have a seat

Project #3: Literature/ Donation Process

(LDP)

LSU?

Final Thoughts

http://www.passaicarea.org/adhoc121111.html adhoc121111@passaicarea.org This presentation will be posted online GSUs Flyer PCASC CBDM Guidelines Passaic County Area, 2nd Sunday of the month (2-10)

◦ 12 PM Mentorship◦ 1 PM Workshop (“How To Conduct An Area Inventory”)◦ 2 PM Business

MARLCNA 29, Feb 8-10, 2013, Lancaster, PA NNJRSC Forum, Feb 23rd, 2013, St. Pauls Shelter,

Paterson, NJ, 10a-7p

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