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Recovery · Service · Useful tools

GSRs: Let’s Get Coffee.

Bring me a real problem your recovery group or service structure is trying to solve. Tell me the idea. If it can help people and we can protect anonymity, I’ll see what EAS can build.

A personal invitation from Jade Lawton Chancey (“Capt.”), a recovered alcoholic who continues to do service work.

I know what recovery service looks like from the inside. It is people showing up, carrying information, taking responsibility, helping newcomers, and doing the quiet work that keeps a group available for the next person who needs it.

A General Service Representative is a group’s elected connection to A.A. as a whole. Local GSRs hear the recurring problems: information that does not reach people, calendars that fall out of date, service opportunities nobody can find, accessibility gaps, and useful ideas that never get technical help.

Call me. We’ll get coffee. Explain the service problem—not a polished sales pitch—and let’s see whether we can build something useful.

What kind of ideas?

Meeting and service information

Clear public directories, accessible schedules, event calendars, and update workflows that do not depend on one overworked volunteer.

Newcomer orientation

Plain-language public information that helps somebody understand where to go and what to expect without collecting their identity.

Service coordination

Privacy-conscious volunteer signups, literature inventories, event needs, or district communication tools.

Accessibility

Large-print, multilingual, low-bandwidth, screen-reader-friendly, and mobile-first ways to reach more people.

The bench rules.

Anonymity and group independence come before features.
  • No public member lists.
  • No tracking somebody’s recovery status.
  • No selling participant information.
  • No implication that EAS speaks for A.A. or another fellowship.
  • No launch without clear ownership, maintenance, privacy, and group approval.

A useful tool should support service without turning recovery into a marketing database. We will start with the least information necessary and build outward only when the people responsible for the program understand and approve the tradeoffs.

There is no coffee pitch.

You do not need to arrive with funding, technical language, or a finished plan. Tell me what keeps breaking, who it affects, what volunteers do today, and what a better day would look like.

If the idea is a reasonable build and can genuinely help the local recovery community, EAS will help shape and prototype it. If it needs clinical care, legal authority, official fellowship approval, or infrastructure beyond our lane, we will say that clearly and help identify the right next conversation.

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Need help now?

This outreach page is not treatment, sponsorship, crisis response, or a meeting directory.

For free, confidential treatment referral and information, call SAMHSA: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit FindTreatment.gov.

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, call or text 988 or visit the 988 Lifeline. For an immediate life-threatening emergency, call 911.

This is Jade Chancey’s personal community-service invitation, supported by Epic App Solutions. EAS is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A. World Services, or any other recovery fellowship. Participation is voluntary and does not require disclosure of membership or recovery status.