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  • Our website had a makeover! All the information you are accustomed to finding on the website is still available just in an updated format. The most notable changes are the meeting list featured directly on the website and the events calendar. Please alert me, the webkeeper, if you experience any issues with the new website! Events will now be advertised in the calendar and the announcements page will be used for more general news.
  • The 2025 Fall Convention is hoping to have Alateen participation. Please consider filling out this survey to gauge the level of interest for potential Alateen events at the convention to help the committee and Alateen Sponsors plan the best event possible.
  • Outreach update:
  • Registration is now open for the Area 24 2025 Fall Convention. For more information please see the event listing in our calendar: here.
  • 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.
  • The Friday Noon Mount Vernon Slogan meeting has updated their list of slogans. Come to the meeting for a copy, or download it here.
  • 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 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. 
  • 7:00PM Sunday Butler AFG at St Johns Western Run Parish Church in Glyndon has permanently closed effective 1/31/25.
  • The Wednesday Afternoon Step meeting at the Serenity Center has a new meeting name and time effective 12/18/24. The meeting still takes place on Wednesdays and is still hybrid. New meeting name: Literature Study: The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage. New meeting time: 10:30AM. The meetings list has been updated to reflect this change!
  • Sadly the 7:00 PM Friday Conscious Contact Meditation Meeting has decided to take a hiatus and go inactive effective 11/15/2024. This meeting may emerge again in the future – possibly on a different day or different time, if so that will be announced on this page as well. (11/18)
  • Participation is the Key to Harmony AFG will now be in-person only beginning on Nov. 7, 2024. In-person meeting held at Church of the Redeemer on Charles Street on Thursdays at Noon. Meeting is in the upstairs lounge; the church has installed an elevator. (11/5)
  • Check out the new Hope For Today meeting on Saturdays at 10 AM in Bel Air at Christ Our King Presbyterian Church, 10 Lexington Rd. 21014 (10/1)
  • The Govans Neighborhood meeting Tuesdays at 11 AM has had to relocate (yet again) due to renovations now at the Govans branch of  Pratt Libraries. Starting October 22, come to Faith Presbyterian Church, 5400 Loch Raven Blvd at Woodbourne. Enter via the south door facing Woodbourne, once again handicap accessible. New name as well: Keep Coming Back AFG.
  • Evergreen Speaker Step AFG online has been discontinued. It is back in-person, however: Sundays 11 AM at Loyola College, just across the hall from the Discussion meeting and the new Alateen meeting. Enter under the pedestrian bridge crossing N Charles, up one flight/elevator. The online Evergreen Hope meeting continues Sundays at 11.
  • The Bel Air Friday AFG at 7:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church sadly has closed.
  • New meeting at the Charlestown Retirement Center, Mondays at 9 AM: “Catonsville Morning Serenity AFG.” Set your GPS to 715 Maiden Choice Lane, Catonsville, MD, 21228; at the gate, ask the guard to direct you to Charlestown Square. The person at the desk will help you find room 116. Families, friends, and observers welcome!  (3/24)
  • The Hampstead-Snydersburg AFG meeting on Thursdays at 7:30pm, the front doors are kept locked.  To enter the building, enter the side basement door and go up the steps to enter.  (2/24)
  • A new meeting online, studying the Al-Anon Service Manual started in July. See the Flyer for how to log on, Thursdays at 8 PM. The Service Manual is online, and printed copies are now available from the AIS Literature Depot.
  • An established meeting, newly listed, is Thursday’s 7 PM virtual True Perspective AFG. In keeping with Traditions Five and Six, they sometimes invite an AA speaker. Learn about alcoholism from the experts…
  • Monday’s 12:30 virtual Courage to Change meeting has become a literature meeting. Currently reading “Reaching for Personal Freedom” and discussing the questions. All welcome!

  • New ~ Alateen is in need of more AMIASs to sponsor the Sunday Evergreen Alateen meeting! The Alateen Point Person is looking to put together a list of emergency/back-up AMIASs to fill in on an as needed basis – not a regular standing commitment. If you are interested in becoming a back-up AMIAS for the Evergreen Alateen meeting please contact Estelle S. at baltaisalateen@gmail.com. More information on Alateen service can be found in the Alateen section of the Service Page.
  • New ~  For over 20 years the “Women of Hope” has taken meetings to the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW) in Jessup, MD.  This meeting is urgently looking for volunteers. Can you spare an hour on Sundays, once a month or every other month?  (8/24)If interested please contact Margaret B. at AFGOutreach@outlook.com . For more information click here – Flyer 

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.

  • In physical meetings, a binder would contain a cheat sheet for the secretary, as well as optional readings (like Newcomers’ Welcome and Crosstalk Statement) chosen by the group conscience. To facilitate rotation of service, I will post this documents, as I have done for the Evergreen Step and Monday Courage to Change meetings. To view those examples, click on the (blue) day of the week on the line for that meeting in the “List of All Local Zoom Meetings” on the meetings page.
  • The Friday Noon Mt Vernon meeting is sharing its list of Slogans, gathered from the indices of Conference Approved Literature.
  • Is your group still using the Old Newcomers’ Welcome that WSO withdrew in 2004? (See p. 348 of Many Voices, One Journey, B-31) That reading, like crosstalk statements, is not copyrighted by the Al-Anon World Service Office (WSO). These readings fall within each group’s autonomy, our Fourth Tradition. Consider practicing the fourth Concept by calling a group conscience!
  • How safe is your Zoom meeting for newcomers?
  • The WSO’s Al-Anon App is here and includes Alateen information as well.
  • The WSO has a blog where anyone can post. (As much disease as recovery…)
  • A wonderful article by a beloved member of our AIS was published in the April 2021 Forum, Al-Anon’s monthly magazine. You can also read it here!
  • Zoom has gotten strict about accounts being used by more than one person, and this can be a problem as we practice rotation of service. Members who have volunteered to host a meeting they didn’t start may suddenly find themselves blocked from that role – and if the Waiting Room is enabled, unable to let anyone else in, either. There is a solution: the “Host Key,” a password that allows anyone to be the Zoom host for that meeting. As host, they can enable the waiting room (if that’s the group conscience), as well as rename, mute, and (heaven forbid) remove participants. Caryn M has generously submitted these handy step-by-step instructions, so that the person who initially set up the meeting doesn’t have to be there every week. Update July 15: if there is no host present (account owner or keeper of the host key), Zoom may shut down the meeting after 40 minutes. Your warning is a little timer counting down. Today we were able to restart the meeting immediately, but whether to allow that is also entirely up to Zoom…Whatever happens, please send meeting updates to baltoais.webmaster@gmail.com

2023 SerniTea flyer

2021 virtual Tea Tea 21 both pages

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