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Säkerhets varning från Aca WSO

Dear Fellow Traveler
It has been brought to the attention of the ACA WSO IT Team that some individuals are sending emails to intergroups trying to get them to download suspicious files.
These emails are not sent from ACA WSO,  but do mention the ACA WSO office.
It is strongly advised to NOT click the download button as it appears to be an attempt to spread malware.
The emails that some intergroups received look like the following:

From: SendGB.com No-Reply <noreply@sendgb.com>Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 5:26 AMSubject: aca-office@adultchildren.org sent file(s) via SendGBTo:  (intergroup email address)

When inspecting emails look for signs that might indicate that it is not legitimate.
The following signs can be seen with this email:

The sender (noreply@sendgb.com) is not from ACA WSO.  NOTE: ACA WSO lets groups know if they are sending out emails from a trusted vendor (eg. zoom invites, election buddy voting).
The email aca-office@adultchildren.org was put into the subject line to try to trick the user that it was sent from this email.  Also aca-office@adultchildren.org is not the official ACA WSO office email. The ACA WSO office email is info@acawso.org
WSO has never used a large file delivery service to deliver files to ACA groups. Suddenly doing so would be suspicious.
The file name that was listed was confidential.rar. Not only is the word confidential suspicious, but also the .rar file type is generally not used in professional settings.

If you have any questions you are welcome to contact the WSO office at info@acawso.org or the IT Manager at itmanager@acawso.org

In Service, 
Brad L
IT Manager
Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization

Veckomail från Europakommittén

Dear European ACA fellowships,

I want to confirm the great news that in the upcoming European Committee Teleconference we will have a Broad discussion with some of ACA Trustees and the Chair of Safety resources committee on our usual October 5th meeting! So everybody from ACA is invited there and the zoom codes are the usual ones for EC teleconferences 🙂 See agenda in a separate email 🙂

Also, volunteers in Europe are called and  needed to join the planning committee for the 2025 Annual World Convention (AWC)! The AWC planning committee is looking to find service members across various time zones to plan and coordinate our annual virtual convention. 

Here are some ways you can get involved in helping make the AWC a reality! You can choose what resonates with you:

– Review workshop submissions and interview potential presenters
– Assist the communications team in spreading the word about the Convention
– Answer questions from the fellowship as an AWC email monitor
– Support presenters before and during the event

To volunteer, please fill in the registration form.
Questions? Email us at awc@acawso.org

Third, something being discussed at the European Committee level is how to help new recovery meetings and foster growth of new IGs. We would love to see the community grow and as the European Committee itself is growing in service  I wonder from time to time how it FEELS like for Intergroups  – are you able to stay ahead of the challenges you are facing and are able to resolve them successfully? I would love to read your feedback if you would reply to this email 🙂   

Something crazy and related that I thought about as I write this – forming a sharing space / a meeting of mental and emotional recovery for all the chairs of Intergroups in Europe and I think to myself wow as I write this.- would be glad to hear any echos and feedback from you guys if that idea is something that you would participate in 🙂 

With this email please find the minutes of the previous (September) Teleconference where we had an interesting discussion about fear in service 🙂 (link to september EC TC minutes)

In loving service,
Edmundas.

ec-chair@acawso.org

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If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity, please consider joining the European Committee. We are looking for more people to join us. Please email us at: ec-webservant@acawso.org

Meddelande till samtliga grupper Meddelande till samtliga ACA – grupper i Sverige

Vi hoppas att ni vill sprida detta meddelande vid alla möten under perioden fram till höstens SK. 

Stegen / Traditionerna / SERVICE Att göra service är en av hörnstenarna i tillfrisknandet. Välkommen som ny medlem i Servicegruppen (SG) för ACA. 

Vi vill med detta korta meddelande uppmana alla som har gjort de 12 stegen och som sponsrar programmet och kanske även varit GSR / Kassör i en grupp att överväga möjligheten att göra service som medlem i SG, som arbetar ideellt för alla gruppers välmående. Vi i SG finner stor glädje att ge tillbaka det vi själva har fått genom att andra medlemmar har gjort denna service före oss. Just nu har vi flera vice poster lediga. Det ger en möjlighet att i lugn takt gå bredvid och lära sig av en ordinarie innan denne roterar ut. Just nu söker vi: 

Servicepost Uppgifter som ordinarie Tidsåtgång Tidsåtgång KvalifikationerVice ordinarie 
Vice ordförande Firmatecknare, Håller i SG möten och SK* Leda arbetet på tillfrisknat och konstruktivt sätt5 h/mån. 8 h/mån. Arbetshelg Arbetshelg 1-2 ggr/år 1-2 ggr/årErfarenhet av förening eller annat styrelseuppdrag
Vice kassör Rapportera, hantera in- och utbetalningar. Firmatecknare3 h / mån 6 h / mån Arbetshelg Arbetshelg 1- 2 ggr/ 1- 2 ggr / år årErfarenhet av enklare bokföring
Vice sekreterare Kallelser, dagordningar protokoll SG och SK*3 h / mån 6 h / mån Arbetshelg Arbetshelg 1- 2 ggr/ 1- 2 ggr / år årErfarenhet av Google Documents
Vice kommunikationsansvarigMail, telefon och information 4 h / mån 6 h / mån Arbetshelg Arbetshelg 1- 2 ggr/ 1- 2 ggr / år årMailkunskaper

* SK, Servicekonferens som sker 2 ggr per år 

Anmäl ditt intresse via denna QR:kod eller via länken nedan, så kontaktar vi dig; 

https://forms.gle/gMXV8yZR2DthoEx96

Öppet Litteratur policy möte

Open Literature Policy Meeting
To our ACA Members:
You are invited to a second conversation about the wording of the ACA Open Literature Policy. This date and time were set to work for our worldwide members in different time zones: Saturday October 28, 9pm ET

Examples of world time zones:
GMT + 7–11am Sunday, Thailand time
GMT + 11 noon Sunday, Australia time
GMT + 13 2pm Sunday, New Zealand time

Zoom: 856 5245 7314Passcode: 876816

First, I would like to reassure you there is no plan to abandon the open literature policy. Any information you may have received to the contrary is not true. There is no poll and we are not taking a vote. There would never be any changes to the open literature policy without the fellowship’s agreement and there is nothing proposed.

Concept VI states that “our Annual Business Conference with delegates from all our meetings, intergroups and regions have the final decision respecting large matters of general policy…”

Again, the purpose of this meeting is NOT to get rid of the ACA Open Literature policy.The purpose is to review the language that is in the BRB (p 612) and the Literature Policy trifold (https://adultchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/Literature/Literature_Policy_EN_US_A4.pdf) to see if it should be updated or improved.

We thought of some questions for your feedback, and you may have others. That is the purpose—to have a conversation about what works and what doesn’t.

Here are a few of the questions we are looking at:
1. The trifold says outside literature should “support the growth of ACA and promote unity and consistency of our Twelve Step message” Should the “message” be more in line with The Solution, including reparenting?
2. The BRB p 612 says outside literature should not contradict “Sponsorship?” ShouldSponsorship be removed and just keep the Laundry List and the Solution?
3. Should we consider language more like “promote ACA recovery” without referring toparticular documents?
4. What does it mean to “promote an author?” Doesn’t every book promote an author?

If you can’t attend and wish to offer your views, you can email me. At litchair@acawso.org.

I have assembled all comments I have received and will forward to the committee.

A few important notes:
We heard that many of you benefit from using “A New Hope.” It has completed the Literature Review step and has been approved for the Fellowship Review step in the process of obtaining Conference Approval. So, it is in the process of becoming ACA literature!

Also, many of you referred to Tony A’s steps. ACA is prohibited from using the exact language in those steps by the copyright owner, who has threatened to sue. However, we been working for over a year to create a new set or sets of ACA Steps that are gentle, loving, and in line with ACA recovery. We will be sending out 7 sets of steps soon in a survey for you to rank.

Our effort is to determine if the language in the policy needs to be more definitive and more inclusive, loving, etc. Any information circulated indicating an attempt to abandon the policy is totally wrong and in no way ever reflected our intentions. The current intent, with your help, is to make this policy clearer.

Our committees and subcommittees are open to volunteers. We welcome your participation.

We encourage all our groups to register a delegate to be involved withdecisions affecting our fellowship.
Please click on https://adultchildren.org/conference/.

With love in service,
Christine B
Literature Chair, litchair@acawso.org