Thank you for volunteering to chair a meeting or speak at a treatment center or detox facility. We want to continue to serve the recovery community by sharing our experience, strength, and hope with the clients.
The following are Do’s and Don’ts to be used as a guideline.
- Do dress appropriately and conservatively.
- Do use appropriate language.
- Do have a meeting guide, readings, and books/pamphlets available.
- Do comply with any request’s treatment facilties have stated.
- Do sign in and sign a HIPPA statement when requested.
- Do agree to sponsor clients if willing to do so.
- Do share your path to sobriety.
- DON’T bring a cell phone into the meeting.
- DON’T bring food, candy or anything edible into the meetings.
- DON’T reveal to anyone who you saw at the treatment meeting.
- DON’T share “drunk-a-logs” or horror stories with clients (Triggers)
- DON’T trash treatment center programs.
- DON’T give advice.
If you are going to be absent, please have a backup ready or call the Treatment Chair or Alternate Treatment Chair.
Thankyou for your service, we couldn’t do this without you.