Al-Anon meetings are for anyone whose life has been affected by someone else’s drinking. If someone’s alcoholism is bothering you, please attend any ‘unrestricted’ meeting, both ‘open’ and ‘closed.'
- ‘Open’ Al-Anon meetings are open to everyone, including those only seeking information about Al-Anon, such as
professionals (counselors, doctors, etc.), media, students, or the
curious, but don’t, themselves, have any family or friends
whose alcoholism is bothering them.
- ‘Closed’ Al-Anon meetings are meant only for those whose lives are bothered by someone else's drinking. Visitors
and newcomers that qualify in this manner are welcome to attend ‘closed’
Al-Anon meetings. It is asked that those seeking only information not
attend 'closed' meetings.
- ‘Restricted’ meetings are held on sites
that require special clearance and/or permission. No one can attend these meetings without being cleared by the facility in which the meeting is held. The purpose of 'restricted' meetings is to carry the
Al-Anon/Alateen message to those who are confined in crisis/abuse
shelters, juvenile detention centers, group homes, county jails, state
and federal prisons, and other similar facilities.
- All Alateen meetings are ‘closed,’ open only to teens and some younger children and their Area-certified Group Sponsor(s). For the teen’s protection, Alateen abides by the NCWSA requirement for Alateen member safety.
