adult children of alcoholics and other dysfunctional families

This page shows information  current in 2001.

ACOA/DF in Melbourne and Victoria, Australia.

The address for ACoA Vic. InterGroup is PO Box 469, Carlton South 3053 Australia.
phone (03) 9654 8322 or send E-mail to

ACoA literature is available at our meetings.

Al-Anon also conduct adult child. meetings in Melb. and regional Victoria.

and if you want to help jazz up this page, contact us.

Melbourne meetings

Friday 5:45 pm. - a Steps meeting
20 Princes Street, North CARLTON - Neighborhood House

Saturday 2 pm
centre next to Church of All Nations, Palmerston Street CARLTON

Tuesday at HAMPTON - more details later

Victorian country meetings

Wednesday 10:30 am.
downstairs at rear of St. Peters Church, Newlands Drive PAYNESVILLE, Gippsland

Saturday 1 pm. (this meet'g may have closed)
401 Olive Street, ALBURY

Adult Children of Alcoholics or ACoA/DF (sometimes known as ACA) is a support group for persons coming from alcoholic or other dysfunctional families. All persons with a sincere desire to improve their lives are welcome. ACoA is based on the 12 steps and 12 traditions which we inherited and adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 steps are suggested as a program of recovery.

Please note that ACoA is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or any other group. ACoA was first established in Los Angeles, USA and arrived in Australia in the late 1980s.

Each ACoA meeting is autonomous and self-supporting. To really find out about ACoA, attend one of the meetings! Note that no one has ever been bitten at an ACoA meeting. ACoA meetings tend to be informal and open. Though ACoA is a non-religious program of self-improvement, ACoA does have a spiritual focus. At an ACoA meeting, people often talk about a "higher power" of each person's understanding, and there's emphasis on "inner child work". John Bradshaw and Janet Woititz have published helpful books about being an ACA.

contacts for ACoA/DF meetings interstate

We are interested in contacting ACoA meetings around Australia  - not always easy to do. Some of these details are years old. If you can help us find other ACOAs out there, please e-mail us !

• Brisbane, Queensland ph 07 3857 0162
• ? Queensland ACA, P0 Box 671, Toowong 4066
• ? Sydney, NSW ACA Intergroup, c/o South Pacific Private Hospital, 18 Beach Street, Harbond NSW 2093
• Perth, Western Aus. ph 09 9321 2930
• ? Hobart, Tasmania ph 03 6278 2294

There are regular ACoA chat meetings running on the net.
Check the meetings list at the current ACA world site .. www.adultchildren.org

     ... ACOA resources
an E-mail discussion list for ACoA ... ACA in cyberspace ... links from About.com
Internet newsgroups with a general list of links to recovery sites

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