VicYPAA Statement of Purpose

VicYPAA has one primary purpose, to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers; and in doing so to show how sobriety and service are fun and fulfilling!

 

About VicYPAA

Every year since 1995, the VicYPAA committee comprising members who typically have less than 10 years of sobriety, arranges fun events and fellowship culminating with an annual convention as a celebration of AA's legacies of Recovery, Unity and Service. VicYPAA events are all-inclusive, never exclusive, and are open to all concerned with a drinking problem, irrespective of age or duration of sobriety.

2010 sees the VicYPAA committee hosting the inaugural AusYPAA event here in Melbourne, which will run instead of the usual VicYPAA convention.

VicYPAA is registered with the National Office of Alcoholics Anonymous Australia, being classified as a ‘special event’ under section 14 of the AA Australia Service Manual. Any excess funds raised during the year are distributed throughout the AA service structure in accordance with the Twelfth Step and Fifth Tradition: to help to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers.