National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse

Can't find a Survivor Recovery Group near you ? ..Start your own !!

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NAASCA - 12 Step Trauma Recovery
Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Anonymous (ASCAA) - a 12 step program

If you have a background or experience with any 12 Step program you may instantly recognize the possabilities of you creating a group in your home town based on the recently launched ASCAA (Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Anonymous) program, recomended below.
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ASCAA 12 Step Program - ASCA12step.org

Who started this?

My name is Bill .. and I'm the founder of a couple of highly respected non profit efforts (LACP.org and NAASCA.org) that've been run based on my nearly 30 years personal understanding and experience with the Steps and Traditions of a so-called "12-Step program." Dozens of groups have been created that emulate the AA program of healing and recovery that was first described in the book Alcoholics Anonymous (aka: The Big Book) in the late 1930's. That's because it works. But none have been inclusive enough to serve a membership seeking to address all the issues of childhood abuse and trauma. Ours does.

Adult Survivors
of Child Abuse

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ANNOUNCING: a just-launched recovery program for all survivors of childhood abuse and trauma who wish to heal through applying a new design for living based on the 12 Steps & 12 Traditions of AA
Dozens of types of recovery groups have been created that emulate the AA program of healing and recovery first described in the book Alcoholics Anonymous (aka: The Big Book) in the late 1930's. That's because it works. But none have been inclusive enough to serve a membership seeking to address all the many issues and types of childhood abuse and trauma. Ours does. No matter what abuse and trauma you experienced, be it through violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse or neglect (also known as maltreatment) you'll belong here: www.asca12step.org

We've closely modeled our program of healing and recovery after the AA experience ..
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What is ASCAA?


Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Anonymous (ASCAA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from the abuse and traumas of their youth. The only requirement for membership is a desire to recover and heal. There are no dues or fees for ASCAA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. ASCAA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to recover from the abuse and traumas of our youth and help other now-adult victims to heal from theirs.
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Who can belong to ASCAA?


Any adult who seeks recovery and healing from abuses and trauma in childhood, including sexual assaults, violent or physical abuse, severe emotional traumas or through neglect, may belong. The only requirement for membership is a desire to recover and heal.
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What are the 12 Traditions of ASCAA?
  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon ASCAA unity.

  2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority-a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.

  3. The only requirement for ASCAA membership is a desire to recover and heal from childhood abuse and trauma.

  4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or ASCAA as a whole.

  5. Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the adult survivor of child abuse who still suffers.

  6. An ASCAA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the ASCAA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

  7. Every ASCAA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

  8. Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

  9. Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Anonymous as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

  10. Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the ASCAA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

  11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.

  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

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What are the 12 Steps of ASCAA?

  1. We admitted we were powerless over the abuse and trauma of our youth -- that our lives had become unmanageable.

  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

  8. Make a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other still-suffering adult survivors of child abuse, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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