San Antonio Al-Anon / Alateen Information

Service Literature Statement

The Al-Anon program has an extensive list of books, many in both hard and soft cover, daily readers, pamphlets, packets of information for newcomers and public outreach resource information. The Al-Anon Family Groups offer a wide range of literature covering a variety of topics relating to people affected by someone else's drinking. Reading of Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature, or CAL, is a vital part of the recovery process. This is especially true in the first year of recovery because it contains only the Al-Anon / Alateen perspective of the effects the disease has on those other than the alcoholic..

As it is with the sharing of experience, strength and hope in an Al-Anon or Alateen meeting, the literature is written solely by members within this fellowship. We do not hire professionals to express what can only be reflected and commented on by those who have experienced living with the disease of alcoholism.

You will find many of these publications available at Al-Anon / Alateen meetings in Texas and elsewhere, including publications designed especially for newcomers to Al-Anon. Some of these publications are provided free at meetings through the donations of the meeting group members.

Presently, the San Antonio Al-Anon Information Service has a limited inventory of Conference Approved Literature. For a current list of publications currently in stock, please Email your request to Literature Chairman at SAAIS@yahoo.com.

You may also order Al-Anon literature and Alateen literature through a local meeting, or receive it directly from the Al-Anon Family Groups World Service Organization. You can reach the World Service Organization at 1-800-344-2666, or order on-line at www.al-anon-alateen.org.

If you would like additional information, have questions, or if you have problems with this site, please email us at SAAIS@yahoo.com. All messages received will only be read and responded to by Al-Anon members on a confidential basis.

The San Antonio Al-Anon Alateen Information Service - SAAIS - is the focal point for Al-Anon family groups - AFG - and Alateen programs in the Greater San Antonio and Texas Hill Country areas of Texas providing Al-Anon group meeting schedule, Al-Anon event, contact, Al-Anon literature, and general information. Serving the Al-Anon family groups - AFG - and Alateen in Al-Anon District 12 and Al-Anon District 13 communities of San Antonio, Bandera, Boerne, Bulverde, Canyon Lake, Comfort, Fredericksburg, Floresville, Ingram, Junction, Kerrville, Lakehills, New Braunfels, Seguin, Spring Branch and Universal City, Utopia, Uvalde, and the counties of Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Mason, Maverick, Medina, Real, Uvalde, and Wilson of the Al-Anon East Texas Area 53.

Statement of Purpose -
Al-Anon’s Suggested Preamble to The Twelve Steps

The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength, and hope, in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness, and that changed attitudes can aid recovery..

Al-Anon is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organization, or institution; does not engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any cause. There are no dues for membership. Al-Anon is self-supporting through its own voluntary contributions.

Al-Anon has but one purpose: to help families of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps, by welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics, and by giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic.

Reprinted with permission from the Al-Anon/Alateen Service Manual (P-24/27), © 1992, Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.