There is currently one H & I meeting in Arizona: a women-only meeting in Mesa, which started in July 2024. This meeting was initiated by the rehabilitation facility reaching out to Arizona Intergroup. To attend or support this meeting, please contact Sharon O. 480-734-1643 or Lisa L. 480-703-4740.

The disease of family dysfunction is a progressive disease that forces some adult children to seek help in a treatment setting or psychiatric hospital. Other adult children are sentenced to prison for crimes they have committed while acting out with addiction or codependency. These adult children often form an ACA meeting in their facility and ask for outside support.

Hospitals and Institutions meetings are ACA meetings held in a treatment center, jail, prison or other facility that houses adult children. While there is ACA involvement, there is no affiliation between ACA and the facility. Many members carry the ACA message into these facilities as part of their service work and personal program of recovery. At the same time, many ACA members began their program in one of these facilities.

ACA members from the outside attend the meetings, carrying the message to the adult child wherever and whenever they are asked. Adult children in these facilities are grateful for the outside support. Many attend ACA meetings once they are released. They become group members, carrying the message of hope that was carried to them.

Source: ACA Fellowship Text (BRB)