Welcome to our website! Please check the Events Page to see all of our upcoming events which can be viewed in list or calendar format.
- To those who were experiencing difficulty accessing the SereniTea Sign Up Sheet: please use this link.
- Outreach update:
- We have started a new initiative to place How Al-Anon Works in Little Free Libraries! Please see this letter for how to help.
- Thanks to all who helped with the designs, we now have four posters to choose from! See them all here, along with a new flyer especially to distribute to AA meetings. To request copies, email baltimore.ais.outreach@gmail.com. (Downloadable files: heart design, arrows design, mirror design)
- To express your willingness to volunteer at Health Fairs, please email Maggie S, our AIS Health Fair Coordinator.
- Please check the calendar on the events page to view the listing for our next AIS Meeting. All are welcome, especially AGR’s and ISR’s from each group. Meeting takes place on the second Tuesday of every month except June and December.
- Alateen is back to Baltimore! 11 AM Sundays at Loyola University, same time as the AA and Al-Anon meetings. For more details click here. Questions ~ email: baltaisalateen@gmail.com.The current flyer is here — but perhaps you have ideas for a new flyer? Make one! Basic information and QR code are in this file. Send your designs(s) to baltaisalateen@gmail.com. We will have it professionally printed to distribute!
- Please invite newcomers, especially at virtual meetings, to request a free Newcomer’s Packet, How Al-Anon Works, and/or Alateen: Hope for Children of Alcoholics. Paper and electronic copies are available – click the button at the top of the Newcomers’ Page.
- To subscribe to the Baltimore AIS Bulletin, please email baltimoreaissecretary@gmail.com.
- The Washington, DC AIS, sadly, has closed. Please use the WSO website to find meetings in Montgomery & Prince George’s Counties and the District of Columbia.
- Monday Night Ellicott City AFG has a new start time of 7:30pm beginning on Jan. 5, 2026.
- Wednesday Courage to Change North East AFG will meet at 7:30pm (instead of 7:00pm) in DECEMBER ONLY due to church activities.
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Saturday, 11:00 AM: BOLTON HILL AFG will be virtual only on Nov 29 & Dec 27 (MICA closed, no in-person)
- NEW MEETING: Let It Begin With Me AFG, Friday 1:00 PM, Dundalk Presbyterian Church, 1973 Merritt Blvd, Dundalk, MD 21222, Parking in the Back of the Church. Enter at the top of the Handicap Ramp.
- NEW MEETING: Sunday Night Butler Meeting AFG, Sunday at 7:00 PM, St. John Episcopal Church, 3738 Butler Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136, Meets in Library
- Monday afternoon Courage to Change Virtual Meeting has a new Zoom link. New meeting link , Meeting ID: 882 7194 0734 & Passcode: 524205
- Wednesday evening Courage to Change Meeting in Cecil County has permanently changed locations effective August 6th. The new meeting location is at Bethel Lutheran Church: 24 Cameron Rd, North East, MD.
Service is one of the three sides of Al-Anon’s equilateral triangle, as essential as Unity and Recovery. The slogan “When I got busy, I got better” reminds us that when we the take the focus off the alcoholic, we can make more progress in our own recovery.
To find out more about Al-Anon Service opportunities please visit our Service Page. There is information about service at the group level, service opportunities in Alateen, and service positions within the Baltimore Al-Anon Information Service (AIS).
- Conference Approved Literature (CAL) is available from our new literature person, Kim D., at alanonliteraturedepot@gmail.com. This supports the AIS, and you can avoid the WSO’s $10 postage fee if you meet her at a meeting. A price list of all titles is here. Kim also sells for $0.15 each the newest paper directory of local meetings, just revised February 5. These may also be purchased at the monthly AIS meetings, or you may even print it yourself, landscape mode on legal-sized paper.
- Tradition 7: Al-Anon must remain self-supporting through your voluntary service and financial contributions. Group treasurers can find their group number on the printable directory to identify group contributions. The group number may also be found in the last column of the meeting lists on the Meetings page of this website.
- Is your group still meeting online? At the Area 24 Spring Assembly in May of 2023, Group Representatives voted to accept online meetings into the Area service structure. [This does not affect groups that are in-person or hybrid.] If your previously in-person meeting plans to meet virtually for the foreseeable future, and is not interested in being a Global Electronic Meeting, please fill out this Electronic-Group-Change-Form; instructions here. If your virtual group has split off from one that has gone back to being in-person, it must register as a new meeting with this form: Electronic-Group-Registration-Form. Since the forms asks, please note that a Beginners’ Meeting ought to consider following these WSO Guidelines.
Contact the Webmaster
Good Day and Hello, I am the Webkeeper for the Baltimore area Alanon website. When sending in updates and announcements, please use the form provided or send an email to: baltoais.webmaster@gmail.com. Thank you ~
