Remote Communities Committees

• Organize regular telephone/teleconferencing/videoconferencing A.A. and service meetings with members in remote communities.
• Identify community resources and leaders within specific ethnic and cultural communities. Provide such culturally significant representatives with PSAs, A.A. literature and presentations to help establish ongoing communication.
• Make sure there is an A.A. presence in underserved areas — consider starting meetings in communities where none exist.
• Work directly with existing members in underserved communities to take regular A.A. meetings onto Native American reservations, into inner-city communities, special language enclaves, remote areas, or help set up online meetings and mobile collaborations;
• Provide regular reports — in accessible formats — of service workshops, district meetings and other service information that will help keep these communities connected to the whole of A.A.
• Arrange meetings for A.A. members who do not have regular access to A.A. meetings, e.g., in hospitals; rehabilitation centers for those with injuries or physical differences; residences for those with intellectual or information processing challenges; and those in assisted living or skilled nursing facilities.
• Coordinate Remote Communties workshops at the group, district or Area level.
• Provide Remote Communities workshops and assistance to people with who need it at conventions, conferences, service weekends, service meetings, special events, etc.
• Gather local information and identify outside local resources regarding remote communities.

For more ideas like this, see the Accessibilities Committee Workbook.