Announcements (Long Form)

NorCal CMA Monthly Intergroup Meeting

The Board of Directors voted to move the meeting from the Castro Country Club to the Castro Community Meeting Room (above Bank of America), with a new expanded time frame so that we can allow time for discussion of both old and new business. We will meet on the second Saturday of every month from 11:00 am until 12:30 pm in a hybrid format.

NorCal CMA Intergroup — July 13, 2024 — Online only for July 2024

11:00 am to 12:30 pm PT
Online — NorCal CMA Board Members, Committee Chairs, GRSs, and members of the fellowship

Castro Community Meeting Room
511 Castro Street (Above Bank of America)
San Francisco, CA 94114

This meeting is wheelchair accessible.

Join Meeting Remotely: https://zoom.us/j/97432901845
Meeting ID: 974 3290 1845
Passcode: 839860

All NorCal CMA Members are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the NorCal CMA District/Intergroup. All Group Service Representatives (GSRs) and Board Members are strongly encouraged to attend so that their groups are well represented. 

Sober Meetup at the Up Your Alley 2024 (Dore Alley) Street Fair, hosted by Sober Kink Together

Join Sober Kink Together for our annual pre-fair meetup, Sunday, July 28, 2024 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am PDT at Sightglass Coffee at 270 7th Street at Folsom Street.

We'll hold space for folks to get coffee and treats, check-in, and get spiritual before entering the fair together at 11:30 am. Members are available to "buddy-up" and check-in inside the fair until about 3:00 pm when we will head back to the 4:00 pm Crystal Clear: Stories of Hope CMA meeting at the Castro Country Club.

Email soberkinktogether@gmail.com or join the private Facebook group by visiting tinyurl.com/SKTgroup to learn more.

Sober Kink Together Pre-Fair Meetup

10:00 am to 11:30 am PDT
In-Person — Coffee, Snacks, Fellowship, Support

Sightglass Coffee
270 7th Street (at Folsom St.)
San Francisco, CA 94103

Sober Kink Together @ Up Your Alley 2024 

11:30 am to 3:00 pm PDT
In-Person — Leather and Kink street fair in San Francisco's SOMA district

Up Your Alley 2024
9th & Folsom Streets
San Francisco, CA 94103

Event Website: https://www.folsomstreet.org/fs-events/up-your-alley-2024

Crystal Clear: Stories of Hope

4:00 to 5:00 pm PDT
In-Person — Book Study/Discussion, Chips on last Sunday of the Month

Castro Country Club
4058 18th Street (near Castro St.)
San Francisco, CA 94114

Help New York CMA Translate their 12 Steps for Crystal Meth Addicts

NYCMA is working on a Spanish translation of their 12 Steps black book. Any Spanish-speaking members of CMA are invited to join this zoom meeting to assist with the reading & verification of the translation of the 12 steps for crystal meth addicts. 

Los Doce Pasos para Adictos a la Metanfetamina — June 11, 2024

5:15 pm to 6:15 pm PT
Online

Join Meeting Remotely: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87670608796?pwd=eIEVCiaekhZEgby3y2lAzQ8UCcbAA8.1
Meeting ID: 876 7060 8796
Passcode: 368556

Each meeting will be devoted to reading each chapter of the Spanish translation of The 12 Steps for Crystal Meth Addicts and gather feedback before sending the final version to print. Todos son bienvenidos!

Want to request a new announcement or  update?

In an effort to keep our GSR Announcements quick and easy-to-understand, we have a few requests when making an announcement request. 

• • • Email your announcement requests to vicechair@norcalcma.org with the subject, "Announcement Request."

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    • Please indicate it's period of relevancy, (i.e. how long your announcement should be available.) — Typically, announcements stay on the gSR Quick Script for one week, and on this Announcements page for one month.

Note: ALL announcements will be copy edited to clarity and concision. We may reach out to you for additional clarification before posting the update. 

If you are requesting a change or update to any page of our website, please email the Vice Chair and include a link to the page accompanied by a detailed request. 

To Request and Announcement or a Website Update, please email:
vicechair@norcalcma.org

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

NorCal CMA is committed to fostering safe, inclusive spaces for all recovering crystal meth addicts, regardless of age, race, physical appearance, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, background, disability, or other personal identifiers, while engaging our Fellowship around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in their local meetings.

As a new committee, we are just beginning to meet, gather information, and listen to our fellowship to find ways of ensuring that we are carrying the message of recovery to all. If you are interested in joining our committee, or would like more information on how the DEI Committee serves the community, please email our chair at dei@norcalcma.org. 

In the coming weeks and months, the DEI committee will be conducting an inventory of the NorCalCMA fellowship that will help us to identify ways in which our groups have navigated challenges around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. In addition to this important survey, we will also be conducting a fellowship listening session in April. More details to come. 

Inclusivity Statements

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee of NorCAL CMA has collected these inclusivity statements from across the fellowship of Crystal Meth Anonymous. These statements are being used in meetings all over the world and are wonderfully diverse, yet focused on the same goal: to increase the feeling of inclusivity in CMA meetings.

We’d like to offer this as a resource for your meeting in case you would like to add one of these to your meeting script. Feel free to use these statements as is, or adapt to the needs and group conscience of your meeting.

If you would like to announce it at your meeting, here is a potential script:

The Norcal CMA DEI Committee has added an inclusivity statement resource that our group might want to implement. If you think this would be a nice addition to our meeting and would like to hear more about it, please come to the next business meeting or talk to me after the meeting.

>> CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF <<

Hospitals & Institutions

The NorCal CMA H&I committee has been flooded with requests from facilities to host CMA meetings in their facilities. We have a waiting list for locations in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, and Santa Cruz but we need a minimum of four volunteers per facility before we can add a new facility to the schedule.  

Many times, an H&I meeting is the first introduction to Crystal Meth Anonymous that many inmates, clients, or patients receive. Therefore, it is important that the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps be informative, clear, concise, positive, and solution oriented. 

H&I Committee Meeting — 4th Saturdays 

10:30 am to 11:15 am PT
Next Meetings: 6/22/2024, 7/27/2024, 8/24/2024
Online via Zoom — CMA H&I Committee Meeting

Join Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/84737139750
Meeting ID: 847 3713 9750
Passcode: H&I2023

If you are interested in learning more about H&I or how you can get connected with service to a facility, please join us on the 4th Saturday of Every month on Zoom, or email hospitalschair@norcalcma.org. 

Phone Line Service

The PI&O Committee is looking for volunteers to take calls from addicts in need of support, and those who may have questions about the CMA program. Phone Line Volunteers are remote positions, and we have openings with some shifts as short as 1-hour-per-week. 

The minimum requirements are 1 year of continuous clean time AND completion of all 12 steps with a sponsor. Please see the Standing Committees page for information on our Hybrid monthly PI&O Committee meetings. 

For more information email the PI&O Chair:
publicinfochair@norcalcma.org

West Side Steps — Sponsor-Sponsee Spaghetti Dinner Update

In the past, the Tuesday night West Side Steps group of CMA has organized an annual Sponsor-Sponsee Spaghetti Dinner, but due to the Covid-19 Pandemic shelter-in-place orders in 2020, the event was cancelled. Unfortunately, they do not have a record of who paid for tickets in 2020. 

As the group prepares for the next Sponsor-Sponsee dinner to be scheduled for a date later this year, they want to know who previously paid for a tickets, and whether they want their past ticket to be applied to the next event, or if they would like to have their money refunded. 

Please email West Side Steps with your Name, Address, and Phone Number at ActWriteNow4Good@hotmail.com today. 

Public Information & Outreach (PI&O) 

Also, we are looking for folks willing to help by volunteering to staff CMA information booths at various public events throughout the Northern California District. 

Events to include SF Pride, Folsom Street Fair, Oakland Pride, and more. Please see the Standing Committees page for information on our Hybrid monthly PI&O Committee meetings. 

To be part of the committee or to request more information, please email:
publicinfochair@norcalcma.org