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If you would like to
share your experience, strength and hope, please come to the
subcommittee meeting and become oriented. All members must
be oriented before carrying the message into institutions.
This is very powerful, recovery enhancing stuff, and as an FYI,
I read a poll in an NA Way magazine that showed over 50% of NA
members were introduced to the program through H & I.
We currently take panel discussions into Benton County Jail
Monday at 7 PM, the Yes House (Corvallis) Friday at 7 PM, the
Lincoln County Jail in Newport.
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PURPOSE OF AN AREA H & I SUBCOMMITTEE:
The area Hospitals and Institutions
Subcommittee plays a central role in the overall H & I service
effort. It initiates, coordinates and conducts all local N.A.
hospitals and institutions meetings and activities within the
area. This subcommittee is the hub of H & I planning and
organization.
The H & I Committee is a subcommittee of
the Area Service Committee (ASC). It meets monthly, and the
Chairperson reports to and is accountable in all matters to the
ASC. The Subcommittee is composed of an H & I chairperson, H & I
vice chairperson, H & I secretary, and other elected officers,
as well as any other members of the Fellowship who wish to be
involved.
Here is what the subcommittee does:
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Provides a
monthly forum to pool experiences, "I can't - we can!" |
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Prepares H & I
policies and guidelines for the H & I subcommittee's and
for the ASC's approval. |
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Serves as a
communication link between local H & I meetings /
presentations and H & I subcommittees at the Region and
World levels. |
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Selects the
members who are to conduct the H & I meetings. |
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Serves as a
distribution point for literature for the meetings and
reports these transactions to the ASC. |
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Conducts
learning days, workshops, and orientations on relevant
topics. |
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Is responsible
for all H & I oriented services within the Area. |
WHAT CONSTITUTES AN H & I MEETING /
PRESENTATION?
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In order to
form a clear understanding of an H & I
meeting/presentation, it is important to know where it
fits in our service structure. Rather than being an NA
group, which may be represented at the Area service
committee by a GSR, an H & I meeting is a service
provided by that Area service committee through its H &
I subcommittee. |
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An H & I
meeting are always held under the auspices of an H & I
subcommittee. Any meeting not linked into the service
structure in this way is not an H & I meeting. Where
there is no existing H & I subcommittee, groups
conducting H & I service can be accountable by following
the WSC H & I Guidelines and reporting to an ASC or RSC. |
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H & I meetings
are held in facilities where addicts do not have full
access to regular Narcotics Anonymous meetings. |
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Meetings that
are held in a facility, but which are fully
self-supporting and free of restrictions, are not H & I
meetings. |
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All H & I
meetings are closed to outside participation. NA members
from the outside should attend the H & I meeting only
when invited by the panel leader. The only people to
attend H & I meetings are the panel leader, panel chair,
panel member and speaker or anyone approved by the H & I
subcommittee to go into that H & I meeting |
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