CMA Meeting To Start Within Haymarket
CMA Chicago’s Hospitals & Institutions Committee seeks volunteers for a 12-step meeting planned for clients at Haymarket Center, a residential recovery center in the West Loop area of Chicago. Starting mid-September and running weekly on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm, the one-hour meeting will be held at Haymarket’s facility at 935 W. Washington Blvd.
The committee is looking for speakers and facilitators. It anticipates having two facilitators who would alternate on a bi-weekly basis, each operating the meeting on alternate Wednesdays. The position of facilitator requires one year sobriety, and the commitment for the Haymarket program would be six months.
Speakers would make a one-time commitment to appear at the meeting and share their recovery story, and the role that the CMA 12-step program has played in it. Six months of sobriety is required. Learn more and volunteer by contacting Alan G at 872-395-0260.
H&I Meetings differ from conventional CMA meetings in that they are operated in injunction with the managers of recovery institutions, drug courts, or jails, and there are no elected positions and the 7th Tradition is not practiced. They are intended to bring the message of hope and healing from addiction to crystal meth to addicts within facilities who may be unable to travel to public CMA meetings. The Haymarket Meeting will be the first H&I meeting operated under the support of CMA Chicago since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Haymarket Center is the largest and most comprehensive provider of treatment for substance use and mental health disorders in Chicago. As a designated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Look-Alike it provides comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care services. Haymarket serves 12,000 people annually, mostly are from Chicago, but many are from every area of Illinois. Nine-five percent have annual income under $10,000 and 90 percent are unemployed and 90 percent have criminal backgrounds. Thirty-two percent are uninsured.
