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About Al‑Anon / Alateen

Al‑Anon Family Groups, which includes Alateen and Al‑Anon Adult Children, has been in existence over 70 years as a community resource providing support to those affected by someone else’s drinking.

Today, there are more than 25,000 Al‑Anon and 1,700 Alateen groups meeting in 133 countries. There are about 300 Al‑Anon and Alateen meetings in southern Minnesota and more than 200 meetings in the Minneapolis and St.Paul metropolitan area.  Meetings are anonymous and confidential. There are no fees or dues to attend a meeting. Al‑Anon and Alateen meetings are self supporting through voluntary contributions of members.

Find out if Al‑Anon, Alateen, or Al‑Anon Adult Children might be right for you.

Learn about alcoholism as a family disease and its effect on us.

Help and Hope

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.

Al‑Anon’s Suggested Preamble to The Twelve Steps

Reprinted with permission of Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Virginia Beach, VA.

Alateen Preamble to Twelve Steps

Help is here for the asking.

Take a moment to look at one or more of these 20 question self quizzes — “Are You Troubled By Someone’s Drinking?”, “Did You Grow Up With A Problem Drinker?” or “Alateen–Is Someone’s Drinking Getting To You?” If you answer “yes” to some of the questions we encourage you to give Al‑Anon or Alateen a try. Help and hope for friends and families of alcoholics is just a phone call away. Call 651-771-2208 in the East Metro, 952-920-3961 in the West Metro.

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Post Covid Virtual Meetings

In the wake of COVID-19, many Al‑Anon and Alateen groups have returned to meeting in person while many others still meet virtually or in hybrid format. We maintain a virtual meeting information page with a schedule of virtual meetings with login instructions. It also has important information on anonymity and confidentiality problems arising in virtual meetings with suggestions on how to mitigate them. On this page there is also a list of in-person meetings and groups that are still suspended. See the regular meeting schedule for locations and times of in-person meetings.

If the status of your Al‑Anon or Alateen meeting changes, e.g., becomes virtual or restarts in person, please immediately notify AIS at 952-920-3961 or info@aismpls.org so that the website can be kept up-to-date.

In addition to local virtual meetings, there are many established electronic Al-Anon meetings.  Some are on the Internet in formats such as email, chat, bulletin board and voice via internet.  Others are telephone meetings.  See our electronic meeting page for a link to information maintained by the WSO.

The pandemic put Minneapolis Al‑Anon/Alateen Information Services and St. Paul Al‑Anon/Alateen Intergroup under financial stress since sale of literature and contributions from groups are down. In order to survive, AIS and Intergroup need increased financial support from members and groups.  Please give generously.

Note: Contributions are not accepted from anyone who is not an Al‑Anon or Alateen member.