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16 CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES -BRIDGE THE GAP/CORRESPONDENCE -VOLUNTEER FORM
Bridge the Gap, P.O. Box
7325, Macon GA 31209
The Bridge the Gap Committee of Area 16
Correctional Facilities Committee is made up of Alcoholics Anonymous members
across the state that are dedicated to carrying the AA message to people who
are seeking sobriety but are unable to participate at the community level.
Specifically, Bridge the Gap provides a way for recovering alcoholics to make
contacts with AA members in the area in which they will be living after their
release.
We believe that the most important time in
an inmate’s recovery is the first 24 to 48 hours after his or her release. Some of us who have been in this position
can share that although we had participated in Alcoholics Anonymous while in a
correctional facility, we didn’t attend meetings after our release. We were
simply too nervous, frightened or jittery to walk into a strange AA meeting.
Bridge the Gap hopes to help inmates cross this hurdle by giving them a
“friendly ear” on the outside who will make them feel at home in their AA
community.
Neither Alcoholics Anonymous nor Bridge the
Gap provides housing, food, clothing, job, money or other welfare or social
services. We do, however, help to guide newcomers to find these things for
themselves.
We strongly believe that alcoholics in
correctional facilities need never return if they learn to live sober lives. We
believe that Bridge the Gap can play an important part in achieving this goal.
We look forward to helping them enter the mainstream of AA and their
communities.
Respectfully
Yours,
Area
16 Correctional Facilities Committee
Email: correctional_facilities@aageorgia.org
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1. Inmate AA member requests a Bridge the Gap application. 2.
The Inmate mails the application to Bridge the Gap. 3. Mail is picked up at the P.O. Box by the Bridge the Gap coordinator. 4. The BTG chairperson sorts the application and forwards it to the volunteer in the area the inmate to be released to. 5. The volunteer is then responsible for contacting the inmate AA member. It is
suggested that you use a P.O. Box, or a work address for contact. The
volunteer information is strictly confidential. It is never released to the
inmate by anyone except the volunteer. |
CORRESPONDENCE
Many inmates are simply looking for an A.A. on the outside that
is willing to share their experience, strength and hope through correspondence.
The volunteer is not obligated to participate in Bridge the Gap if he or she
chooses to be a Correspondent only.
The same suggestions (P.O. Box, etc.) apply.
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