ANCoR Intergroup

The Arizona Northern & Central CoDA Region (ANCoR) brings together meetings from across the region to support communication, unity, and service. We meet every other month to discuss regional needs, maintain resources, and make decisions that help strengthen CoDA recovery.

If you’d like to observe or participate, you’re always welcome at the next meeting. Details are available below.

What Is Intergroup?

Intergroup is a service body that supports local meetings and helps them stay connected with one another. Its purpose is to strengthen the health and unity of CoDA in our region by offering resources, communication, and coordination. This includes:

• Maintaining an up-to-date meeting list
• Managing the regional phone line and mailbox
• Coordinating workshops and outreach
• Overseeing regional committees
• Handling 7th Tradition funds for regional projects
• Electing delegates to the CoDA Service Conference (CSC)
• Supporting the GSRs who represent their home groups

Intergroup is guided by CoDA’s Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions, and the Twelve Service Concepts.

What is a GSR (Group Service Representative)?

All CoDA members are welcome and encouraged to attend the intergroup meetings. Has your home group elected a Group Service Representative (GSR) yet? We hope so. Once you elect one of the members, that person will represent you at the intergroup meeting, allowing you to participate in making decisions for our region.

GSRs are elected by their home group meetings. Each GSR attends the intergroup meetings six times a year, plus the annual Voting Entity Assembly, and another special meeting to review motions that will be presented at the yearly CoDA Service Conference. It’s a commitment of approximately 16 hours per year, and you provide valuable service to your meeting and the Fellowship, which in turn enhances your recovery.

You may be considering accepting a GSR position for your meeting. Alternatively, you may currently be a GSR and not be as familiar with the position responsibilities as you’d like to be. ANCoR has created a special page that links to a wealth of information to help you better understand what GSRs do and how CoDA works. CoDA continues only through people being of service. Being of service can deepen your recovery. Service connects you with others who are also committed to CoDA’s principles and offers meaningful opportunities to grow, learn, and contribute to the Fellowship that supports you.

How Intergroup Supports Our Region

Elected GSRs and supporting the intergroup are ways for individual meetings to work together to encourage CoDA unity and protect CoDA integrity by observing CoDA’s Twelve Traditions and Service Concepts.

The primary purpose of ANCoR is to serve this region’s membership of Co-Dependents Anonymous. ANCoR is guided by the principles of CoDA’s Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions, and the Twelve CoDA Service Concepts. ANCoR’s goals are to serve the community in several principal ways.

As paraphrased from our guidelines, ANCoR’s core responsibilities are to maintain and distribute an up-to-date hard copy and electronic copy of the regional meeting list, maintain the phone lines (voice recording of meeting list and retrieving/returning messages left on the message line), make use of internet facing platforms that are consistent with the Twelve Traditions of Co-Dependents Anonymous with special attention to anonymity (especially Tradition 11), to establish outreach and in-reach; to maintain the Post Office Box, and account for and be good stewards of all 7^th Tradition monies received. The intergroup also serves as the liaison to CoDA World, elects representatives to the annual CoDA Service Conference (CSC), and establishes committees that help to serve the membership in our region. The Operational Guidelines by which ANCoR is conducted can be reviewed, downloaded or printed by clicking here. Associated with the Operational Guidelines is the ANCoR Expense Reimbursement Guideline.

7th Tradition Donations

Most CoDA meetings follow a simple guideline for sharing extra funds:

• 40–50% to the local Intergroup (ANCoR)
• 20–30% to your Voting Entity (state or national service structure)
• 20–30% to CoDA World (CoDA.org)

These ranges come from the CoDA Fellowship Service Manual, Part 2. Each meeting decides for itself what works best.

Individual members are always welcome to make a direct donation to ANCoR or CoDA.org.
Members attending from out of state or abroad may prefer contributing to CoDA.org.

Understanding a Group’s Prudent Reserve

Each CoDA meeting is encouraged to maintain a prudent reserve, which simply means keeping two to three months of basic meeting expenses on hand. This may include rent, Zoom fees, literature, supplies, or refreshments.

If a meeting collects more than it needs for its prudent reserve, members may choose—by group conscience—to send the extra funds to the service bodies that support their recovery, such as:

• ANCoR Intergroup
• Their Voting Entity (state/national service structure)
• CoDA World (CoDA.org)
• Another CoDA project the group wishes to support

This practice helps maintain stability, ensures meetings can continue even during low-attendance months, and strengthens the wider Fellowship.