Proposed by the Name Change Study, ACA WSO

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Issue: To change the functional name of the fellowship to Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACAD), the top choice by the fellowship from the name study surveys.

Define the “Functional Name”: The functional name and/or acronym is intended to be used on WSO websites, literature, WSO signage, communications, and merchandise (recovery tokens, medallions, bookmarks, etc.). The legal name, Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization, is not to be changed and is to be used wherever the legal name is required.

Background:

Here are a few highlights:

• For the first time ever, the World Service Organization is turning directly to the meeting groups, Intergroups and Regions for direction on a policy issue that effects ACA as a whole. Typically the Organization holds an Annual Business Conference to find guidance from the Delegates of each group in a very direct, quick, abbreviated process.
• There is a lot of information on the Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families World Service Organization website. A lot of information. It looks at the long history of the proposal’s development and includes recordings of Town Hall discussions, the corresponding slide show presentation, a video enactment on how to conduct a Group Conscience and more. It’s all here at this site – https://adultchildren.org/fellowship-group-voting/. (Be sure to scroll down.)
• The Strengthening My Recovery meeting, WEB0120 (that’s us), has the opportunity to participate in this process.

To begin, we will adapt our usual Proposal Process to open this space for direct comments from our members. Please become familiar with the issue at the page linked above and offer a brief* comment below. At the start of the new year, we can create opportunities to discuss the issue in a breakout room after our daily meeting. At the business meeting on January 15th we can render a final decision incorporating any results of our own online voting procedures. We are asked to submit a Fellowship Group Voting ballot by January 31st.

Thank you for being part of this process.

Note: * Brief comment is mentioned because with a recent proposal members offered extensive comments which triggered a message that the comment field was ‘full’ and not accepting any more. Please be mindful. And know that in January there will be ample time to discuss the issue ‘in person’, in a Zoom kinda way.