About Ontario Intergroup
Intergroup Address | Intergroup Meetings | What We Do | Intergroup Money
The SLAA Ontario Intergroup is a non-governing, co-ordinating body that meets to address issues of concern to SLAA groups in Ontario. Representatives from groups around Ontario attend and participate in service work for the fellowship.
Ontario SLAA Address
For information, comments, or changes to the meeting list you can e-mail your request to us at info@slaa-ontario.org
or to order literature you can e-mail us at slaa.ont.lit@gmail.comor alternatively mail your request to:
SLAA
300 Coxwell Ave.
Box 22514
Toronto, ON M4L 2A0
Intergroup Meetings
A meeting of group representatives meets on the last Thursday of each month (unless noted otherwise) at St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto (7:00 p.m. in Room 2008, Cardinal Carter Wing).
In the spirit of service, please appoint a group representative and be active in Intergroup.
Intergroup Committees
Intergroup works through committees responsible for such activities as:
- our phone hotline
- literature distribution
- public and professional awareness
- retreats/yearly conferences
- e-mail responders
- maintaining meeting lists
- correspondence
What We Do
SLAA Intergroup collects donations from individual meetings to carry out our service work, fund committee activities, and provide direct donations to Fellowship Wide Services (FWS). Please see below for list of our activities and below that for breakout of where Intergroup money went in 2010.
SLAA Intergroup:
- Maintains a current and up to date meeting list on our web site.
- Annually holds a one day conference in the fall, as well as a weekend Spring Retreat.
- Provide a forum for participating groups where they may share ideas, exchange - suggestions for growth and promote unity of SLAA within the Intergroup area.
- Assists newly formed groups in the Ontario area.
- Maintains a P.O. box and telephone service (Hotline) to receive inquiries from those who still suffer.
- Connect an inquirer with an experienced, sober member of SLAA who would then encourage or take the newcomer to his/her first meeting.
- Disseminate meeting lists, information and literature to the professional community such as hospitals, penal institutions, correctional facilities, mental health clinics, rehabilitation centres, courts, juvenile homes and abused family residences.
- Has a monthly meeting of intergroup officers where group representatives are encouraged to attend and take part in the meeting. Intergroup provides an opportunity for those interested in service work beyond the local group level. Intergroup establishes a regional consensus or group conscience affecting SLAA as a whole.
- There is a literature rep that makes all SLAA approved literature and material available to all SLAA groups at cost plus shipping.
- Has a service position of "delegate" who maintains a connection between intergroup and the International SLAA (FWS – Fellowship Wide Services) office in Texas. We endeavor to send the delegate to the Annual Business Meeting held one a year in the USA.
- The majority of money collected by Intergroup is forwarded to FWS in Texas.
Where the Money Went - 2010
| 1 | Direct FWS contributions. | 37.35% |
| 2 | Fund to send a rep to the FWS meeting. | 31.12% |
| 3 | 2010 Conference Deficit. | 7.76% |
| 4 | All phone related expenses. | 12.45% |
| 5 | Rent. | 5.10% |
| 6 | Mailbox. | 2.05% |
| 7 | Internet Hosting. | 1.39% |
| 8 | Prison Outreach Committee. | 1.08% |
| 9 | Banking Fees. | 0.93% |
| 10 | New meeting subsidies. | 0.78% |
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Totals |
100% |