Bridging the Gap
Getting back to the “real world” isn’t always easy for an alcoholic. We admitted that our first days out were often challenging , and we didn’t know if we would stay sober. One of the more “slippery” places in the journey to sobriety is between the door of the facility and the nearest A.A. group or meeting .
Bridging the Gap is a temporary A.A. contact program to help you make the transition from treatment or incarceration into the A.A. community. Once you are discharged or released, an A.A. volunteer will contact you by phone and make arrangements to meet you at your first one to three meetings, explain the A.A. program and the importance of finding a sponsor and help get you connected into the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Bridging the Gap is a temporary A.A. contact program to help you make the transition from treatment or incarceration into the A.A. community. Once you are discharged or released, an A.A. volunteer will contact you by phone and make arrangements to meet you at your first one to three meetings, explain the A.A. program and the importance of finding a sponsor and help get you connected into the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Bridging the Gap is used by both the Corrections Committee and the Treatment Committee. They have different audiences and different registration forms.
Bridging the Gap is used if an inmate has less than six months left on their sentence. So this program is used mostly in prisons as they have longer sentences. However, some jails house state inmates, so Bridging the Gap could be found there.
The goal of Area 16's Corrections Committee is to have a male and female volunteer in every Georgia county. That way, any released inmate would have a contact who could be there as they attend an A.A. meeting their first day out.
Bridging the Gap is used if an inmate has less than six months left on their sentence. So this program is used mostly in prisons as they have longer sentences. However, some jails house state inmates, so Bridging the Gap could be found there.
The goal of Area 16's Corrections Committee is to have a male and female volunteer in every Georgia county. That way, any released inmate would have a contact who could be there as they attend an A.A. meeting their first day out.
