Announcements (Long Form)

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.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

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: 4/27/2024
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. 

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 to 12:30 pm in a hybrid format.

NorCal CMA Intergroup — May 11, 2024 

11:00 am to 12:30 pm PT
Hybrid — 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. 

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

CMA World Membership Survey 2023-2024 

CMA is conducting a survey of the membership and attendees to CMA meetings to gain information that will help us expand CMA’s message of hope and inspiration to both addicts who are suffering from active addiction and addicts who are in recovery. Please help us in this effort by spending a few minutes to complete our 25-question survey.

The survey closes May 31st, after which time the information will be analyzed and synthesized and presented to the 2024 General Services Conference in Las Vegas. 

CMA World Membership Survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cmasurvey2023