Statewide Support in NJ
Al-Anon Family Groups: 12 step. Fellowship of families and friends of alcoholics. Offers
comfort, hope and friendship through shared experiences. Includes groups for parents, children and adult children, gays, men
and women. Several groups offer babysitting. Weekly meetings throughout NJ.
North Jersey Information Service: (Multilingual) Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex,
Monmouth, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren Counties. Call Al-Anon Information Service: 973-744-8686
(day) Spanish Speaking: 973-268-1260. Web site: www.northjerseyal-anon.org
South Jersey Intergroup: (Atlantic, Burlington, Camden,Cape May,
Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Ocean and Salem counties) Call Al-Anon Info Services: 856-547-0855 (10 am - 3pm)
Spanish speaking 973-268-1260 Web site: www.nj-al-anon.org
Alanon-Alateen information:
www.nj-al-anon.org
New Jersey Al-Anon & Alateen
Sponsored by Area 36 Assembly
Alateen - What Is It? Alateen is a fellowship of young Al-Anon members, usually teenagers, whose lives have been affected by someone else's
drinking.
Young people come together to:
- share experience, strength and hope with each other
- discuss their difficulties
- learn effective ways to cope with their problems
- encourage one another
- help each other understand the principles of the Al-Anon program
- learn
how to use the Twelve Steps and Alateen's Twelve Traditions
Alateen members learn:
- compulsive
drinking is a disease
- they can detach themselves emotionally from the drinker's problems
while continuing to love the person
- they are not the cause of anyone else's drinking or behavior
- they cannot change or control anyone but themselves
- they have spiritual
and intellectual resources with which to develop their own potentials, no matter what happens at home
- they can build satisfying and rewarding life experiences for themselves
Every Alateen group needs an active, adult member of Al-Anon to serve as sponsor. The
sponsor is an active party of the group, guiding and sharing knowledge of our Twelve Steps and Traditions. Members of Alateen
can also choose to have a personal sponsor, who can be another member of Alateen or Al-Anon.
Alateen members meet in church halls, school rooms or other suitable places (many times in the same building
as an Al-Anon grop but in a separate room). All Alateen meetings are considered 'closed'. That means that only people who have been affected by the compulsive drinking of another
are welcome. Outsiders with an interest are welcome to sit in on an 'open' Al-Anon meeting to learn more.
Alateen meetings in NJ:
New Jersey Al-Anon & Alateen
Sponsored by Area 36 Assembly
Alateen Meetings
Day | Town | Time | Place | Street | County | Type | Format | HCA | NS |
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Sunday | Netcong | 6:30 PM | Grace Church on the Mount | Route 46 East | Morris | Closed* | Alateen
(13-19) | HCA | NS |
Sunday | Bernardsville | 8:00 PM | St. Elizabeth's School | Seney Drive (Monsignor Tourney Rm.) | Somerset | Closed* | Alateen | HCA | NS |
Sunday | Hillsdale | 7:30PM | Pascack
Bible Church | 181 Piermont Ave. (Back Door) | Bergen | Closed | Alateen (13-18) | HCA | NS |
Sunday | Cherry Hill | 8:15 PM | St. Peter Celestine School | 402
Kings Hwy. North | Camden | Closed | Alateen | | NS |
Sunday | Manahawkin | 7:00
PM | Millcreek Community Center | 1199 Millcreek Road | Ocean | Closed* | Alateen | HCA | NS |
Monday | Hopatcong | 7:30 PM | Westside
United Methodist Church | 16 Maxim Drive | Sussex | Closed | Alateen (13-19) | | NS |
Monday | Red Bank | 8:00 PM | Trinity Episcopal Church | 65 W Front St
(White St rear ent) | Monmouth | Closed | Alateen
(12-18) | | NS |
Monday | Toms River | 7:30 PM | Pinelands Reformed Church | 838 Rt 37 West | Ocean | Closed | Alateen | | NS |
Tuesday | Wayne | 8:00 PM | Preakness Reformed Church | 131 Church Lane | Passaic | Closed | Alateen (13-19) | | |
Tuesday | Teaneck | 7:30 PM | St. Marks Church | 118 Chadwick
Rd. | Bergen | Closed | Alateen | | |
Tuesday | Hamilton | 8:00 PM | St Marks Lutheran Church (Downstairs) | 260 Whitehorse
Avenue | Mercer | Closed | Alateen | | NS |
Wednesday | Iselin | 7:30 PM | St. Cecilia's Church School | 45 Wilus Way | Middlesex | Closed* | Alateen | | NS |
Wednesday | Red Bank | 8:00 PM | Trinity Lutheran Church | 150 River Road | Monmouth | Closed | Alateen | | NS |
Wednesday | Cherry
Hill | 8:00 PM | Kennedy Memorial Hospital (5th Flr) | Chapel Ave
and Cooper Landing | Camden | Closed | Alateen | HCA | NS |
Wednesday | Hightstown | 8:00
PM | St. Anthony's Church | Route 33 & Maxwell Ave. | Mercer | Closed | Alateen (13-18) | HCA | NS |
Thursday | Chatham | 7:30PM | Presbyterian
Church of Chatham Township | 240 Southern Blvd. | Morris | Closed | Alateen (11-18) | HCA | NS |
Thursday | Marmora | 8:00 PM | Church of the Resurrection | 200 West Tuckahoe Road | Cape May | Closed | Alateen | | |
Thursday | Millville | 8:00 PM | First Presbyterian Church | 119 N 2nd Street | Cumberland | Closed | Alateen | | |
Friday | Carteret | 8:00 PM | St. Joseph's Parish Center (basement) | 80 High
Street | Middlesex | Closed | Alateen
(12-19) | HCA | NS |
Saturday | Brick | 11:00 AM | Ocean Medical Center (Basement Conf. Rm) | 425 Jack Martin Blvd | Ocean | Closed | Alateen (10-18) | HCA | NS |
Meeting Locator Key
Open: Meeting
open to public all are welcomed.
Closed: Limited to members and prospective members. These are
persons who feel their lives have been or are being deeply affected by alcoholism in a family member or friend.
Alateen: Meeting
exclusively for young people affected by alcoholism.
*: Indicates an AA meeting held at the same
time at this location.
Discussion: Group discusses a topic about Al-Anon Recovery.
Step: Group
discussion focuses on one of the 12 Steps, or the steps in general.
Tradition: Group discussion
focuses on one of the 12 Traditions, or the traditions in general.
B: Begineer meeting for new
members of Al-Anon.
S&T: Combination of Step and or Tradition meetings.
Adult
Child: Group discussion focuses on the effects of growing up with alcoholism.
Men: Men
only to attend.
Women: Women only to attend.
Gay: Membership composed
primarily of the Gay and Lesbian Community.
Parents: Group discussion focuses primarily on parents
of alcoholics.
NS: Indicates group is non-smoking, groups without this indication should not be
considered smoking.
HCA: Meeting location is handicapped accessible.