How to Start a Meeting
- Set Day, Time and Start Date
- Type of Meeting – Speaker, Open Discussion, Steps, Literature etc
- Name the Meeting
- Register the meeting with CAFAA
- Go to Central Service Committee Zoom meeting any Sunday at 5:30pm ET (first week) or 5:45pm ET (all other weeks) – ID 864 9601 6829 – password – calm
- If you can’t attend, contact a CSC member to get CSC email list and send out group email to get meeting registered
- Tell CSC your plans and vision for the meeting, any info that would be helpful for them to know, consider suggestions if any
- If you’re emailing, ask for their feedback and confirmation by a certain date
- Start the meeting on Zoom
- Contact Assistant Zoom Coordinator Will C., MI; recoverypath22@gmail.com, 734-800-9536 or Zoom Coordinator Ela B. CA; 858-349-0311; elabar123@gmail.com
- They will give you your Zoom ID, password, and Host code
- Get the meeting on the website
- Contact Thomas S., Secretary of CSC, (until we have a new Website Coordinator) with all the details about the meeting – Thomas S., VA 703-347-2462; tks202@icloud.com
- Get the word out
- During the announcement section of meetings, announce your new meeting, the Zoom id and password. Good idea to announce at least a week in advance, on as many meetings as possible
- You can post it on the WhatsApp CAFAA Outreach group http://chat.whatsapp.com/GeNcqJwMc6v8rilmJbhFpo
- Let the CSC know the meeting is live and the start date
- Spread the word about the meeting via texts and outreach calls — consider asking members if they’d like to do service with you (secretary, speaker, booker, co-chair, etc.)
- Format
- Contact the chair of a meeting with a format similar to your meeting and ask them to email it to you so you can edit it to suit your new meeting
- For help with formats or to access a selection of formats, contact Justy, CA; 510-646-2939; justyrenson@gmail.com
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