Every year, each Area in the World Service Conference Structure is required to take part in the Annual Alateen Recertification process in order to continue using the Alateen name, as explained in the Alateen Policy and The 2003 Alateen Motion from the Board of Trustees.
The recertification process is important because it allows the WSO:
- To verify that every registered Alateen group has:
- Current Area-certified Al‑Anon Members Involved in Alateen Service (AMIAS) as Group Sponsor(s).
- A current Area-certified AMIAS who can serve as the Current Mailing Address (CMA) for the Alateen group.
- A current Area-certified AMIAS who can serve as a Phone Contact for the Public.
- To verify the current certification of all AMIAS.
The Annual Alateen Recertification begins in March and ends on June 30!
Read more about the Alateen Policy in the 2018-2021 Al‑Anon/Alateen Service Manual (P-24/27) beginning on page 93.
Contact your Area Alateen Coordinator, Area Alateen Process Person, or District Representative to verify the process in your Area. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share your recovery with teens and younger members!
Starting Alateen meetings in an Area process. Please reach out to the Area Alateen Coordinator for assistance. If you need to find out who the coordinator is, please email groupservices@al-anon.org with the city and state where you reside and a Staff member will reply.
Is it possible to do an article on how to get an alateen meeting started? We struggle to get any responses from the WSO despite emails.
On Mid Cape Cod we have low attendance. We have made a connection with the middle school health teacher who is now including an Alateen presentation as a component in her addictions curriculum each term. Several of us have been presenters. The response from the students has been some good interest and engagement in discussion.
Attendance is still low. The kids may not be ready, but it has helped us feel that we are at least getting the word out to teens and exposing them to the resources that are available. Many of us had to hear about Al-Anon a few times before we were ready. So it is a start. There is also a chat meeting listed on the al-anon.org site. It is just for alateens which may be something they as a technical generation are more comfortable with. Perhaps word needs to get out more about this forum. I have yet to look into it.
The New Orleans area had two groups that closed in the last couple of years. We don’t have any Alateen meeting now.
It would be lovely to be able to download and print out the Alateen re-certification form here!
We do not have any active Alateen meeting in southern New Jersey! There were two and one is gone, and the one in Red Bank is dying out too. So what does one do?
Thank you for responding!
I would like to make sure that I get the paperwork to remain an AMIAS. There have been some ‘glitches’ with this the past two times, for reasons we never quite figured out.
Thank you,