Group Servants

C.A. Service Sponsorship Group Servants

Business Meeting: By Teleconference before the next Group Meeting.

FACILITATOR/S:

Qualifications:

  • Suggested sobriety time: Two (2) years.
  • A 2-year commitment
  • Must have successfully completed a term as a GSR for any C.A. Group
  • Must have successfully completed a term as an Area Chair or as an Area Subcommittee Chair (See SOCA Duties and Responsibilities for a list of Subcommittee Chair positions)
  • Familiar with the 12 Traditions of C.A. and the 12 Concepts of C.A.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for facilitating the topic of the meeting.
  • Facilitate Q&A
  • See that all handouts required are posted to the website prior to the meeting.
  • Responsible for Room Setup and Breakdown.

GENERAL SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (GSR):

Suggested sobriety time: One year

Term: One year

The GSR position is a very important service position for which a member can be elected. Great care should be taken with this choice; the quality of the District/Area Services and ultimately World Services can only be as good as those choices the individual Groups make. As with the Secretaries, GSR candidates should only accept positions for those Groups that they regularly attend. Regular attendance is to be defined by the groups. They are the ones who will carry the information back to the Group as to what is going on in our Fellowship on a District/ Area level as well as the World level.

It should be understood that a GSR does not require Group approval to vote on matters affecting the Group or C.A. as a whole, although it is the GSR responsibility to vote mindful of the group conscience. (See Concept 3). A good GSR is familiar with the C.A. World Service Manual and the Twelve Concepts of World Services. If the GSR cannot attend, an Alternate should attend. The person elected GSR should be trusted with the Group vote. Before accepting a nomination for GSR, the nominee must consider the level of commitment as well as the sacrifice of time involved.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. Sees that the Traditions are followed within the Group.
  2. Attends all appropriate business meetings.
  3. Conducts communication between the Group, District and Area.
  4. Reads/reviews communications from the District, Area and World Service.

ALTERNATE GSR

The purpose and responsibility of the Alternate GSR is to assist the GSR and to assume the responsibilities of the GSR when necessary.
Suggested requirements and qualifications are the same as those for GSR.

GROUP TREASURER QUALIFICATIONS:

Suggested sobriety time: Two Years

Term: One year

Qualifications:

  • Gainfully employed and/or financially solvent and previous C.A. Service experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Keeps an accurate bookkeeping system. (See the “Group Treasurer’s Record” form located in the Financial Guidelines for Groups, Districts & Areas of Cocaine Anonymous. WSM Pages 6-8)
  • When applicable, maintains Group bank account(s) with checks requiring two signatures.
  • Gives financial reports to the Group regularly.
  • Pays all Group expenses.Passes on contributions to the District/Area and/or the World Service Office.
  • Collects and documents 7th Tradition money.

SECRETARY:

Suggested sobriety time: Six Months

Term: One year

Qualifications:

  • Attention to detail with good organizational abilities and note-taking skills.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Keep a record of each business meeting minutes and the Group’s Trusted Servants election date.
  • Maintain the Group Archive (Business Meeting Minutes.)
  • See that the Traditions are being followed within the Group.
  • Follow the format in accordance with the group conscience.
  • See that the responsibilities of the other Group servants are met.
  • See that Seventh Tradition contributions of the members are collected and that a record is kept of the Group’s income and expenses.
  • See that the Group is represented at the District or Area Service Meeting.
  • See that rent for the meeting space is paid and that the Group’s monthly contribution is forwarded to the District, Area and/or World Service Office.
  • Keep an accurate, up-to-date record of changes of the group conscience.
  • Liaison with the Web Servant to post the C.A. Service Sponsorship Literature to the website.

VIRTUAL HOST & CO-HOSTS:

Suggested sobriety time: Six Months

Term: One year

The Co-Host is a trusted servant whose responsibility is to assist the Teleconference Host with the online room management.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Post the Seventh Tradition blurb and website link periodically throughout the presentation. (7th Tradition: There are no dues or fees for this group. We are fully self-supporting through our own voluntary contributions. Expenses for the C.A. Service Sponsorship Group include, yearly domain registration/renewal for caservicesponsorship.org , website hosting, and a monthly subscription fee for the virtual meeting app. We ask those of you who can give generously, please click the “7th Tradition” link. Your donation of $20, $15, $10,  or $5 will go a long way to ensuring that we can continue to provide these online meetings.)
  • Assist the Facilitator during Q&A, calling on those whose hands are up to share.
  • Assist the participants through one-on-one private chats on how to use the various features of the online teleconference app.
  • Act as a “Room Monitor” recognize participants in the “waiting room” and qualify and admit them the online meeting room.
  • Record the opening attendance and monitor and record the online room attendance every 10 minutes.
  • Remove disruptive participants from the room. Disruptive behaviour includes continuously talking out of turn, inappropriate sharing (i.e. outside issues, inappropriate chatting with other participants).
  • Assist the Virtual Host with Screen Shares of posted readings on the website

WEB SERVANT

Suggested sobriety time: One Year

Term: One year

Qualifications:

  • Experience with FB, Email Broadcasting, WordPress, Zoom

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for posting upcoming meeting on various C.A. secret and private FB pages.
  • Emailing members of upcoming regular meetings and business meetings.
  • Responsible for updating and maintaining the Group’s website (caservicesponsorship.org) *Note: this role could be either as liaison to the web-developer/hosting provider or directly as the appointed webservant for the Group.

GROUP SERVICE SPONSORS: 

Suggested sobriety time: Two Years
Served at least one term successfully as an elected trusted servant at either the Group or Area level.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • To recruit, educate and activate C.A. trusted servants.