Adult Children of Alcoholics is a 12-Step, 12-Tradition program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. We meet with each other in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences. We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences us in the present. [The Problem] We take positive action. By practicing the 12 Steps, focusing on The Solution and accepting a loving Higher Power of our understanding, we find freedom from the past and a way to improve our lives today.

Minnesota ACA Intergroup
PO BOX 32905,
Fridley, MN 55432
Phone: (763) 574-0903

Phone: (612) 591-5916

Catholic Charities is the Twin Cities' largest private provider of social services, working to strengthen families, reduce poverty, and build communities in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area. The organization serves individuals and families regardless of faith, operating more than 75 programs in 50 locations. Catholic Charities is a member of Catholic Charities USA, one of the largest private networks of social services providers in the country.

1200 Second Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone: (612) 664-8500

4432 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
  Phone: (612) 871-0118
   TTY:  (612) 871-3652

C.A. is concerned solely with the personal recovery and continued sobriety of individual drug addicts who turn to our Fellowship for help. We do not engage in the fields of drug addiction research, medical or psychiatric treatment, drug education, or propaganda in any form -- although members may participate in such activities as individuals. Cocaine Anonymous is open to all persons who state a desire to stop using cocaine, including "crack" cocaine, as well as all other mind-altering substances. There are no dues or fees for membership. Our expenses are supported by the voluntary contributions of our members -- we respectfully decline all outside contributions. We are not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution.

  Minnesota Meeting Schedule
Phone: (612) 323-3350

Phone: (612) 872-0336

  Phone: (612) 953-8438

Emotions Anonymous is a twelve-step organization, similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. Our fellowship is composed of people who come together in weekly meetings for the purpose of working toward recovery from emotional difficulties. EA members are from many walks of life and are of diverse ages, economic status, social and educational backgrounds. The only requirement for membership is a desire to become well emotionally. Our program has been known to work miracles in the lives of many who suffer from problems as diverse as depression, anger, broken or strained relationships, grief, anxiety, low self-esteem, panic, abnormal fears, resentment, jealousy, guilt, despair, fatigue, tension, boredom, loneliness, withdrawal, obsessive and negative thinking, worry, compulsive behavior and a variety of other emotional issues.

International Headquarters
PO Box 4225
St. Paul, MN 55104-0425
Phone: (651) 647-9712
Fax: (651) 647-1593

 Our primary purpose is to stop gambling and to help other compulsive gamblers do the same. Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real problem gamblers. No one likes to think they are different from their fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our gambling careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could gamble like other people. The idea that somehow, some day, we will control our gambling is the great obsession of every compulsive gambler. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of prison, insanity or death. We learned we had to concede fully to our innermost selves that we are compulsive gamblers. This is the first step in our recovery. With reference to gambling, the delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. We have lost the ability to control our gambling. We know that no real compulsive gambler ever regains control. All of us felt at times we were regaining control, but such intervals - usually brief -were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced that gamblers of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period of time we get worse, never better. Therefore, in order to lead normal happy lives, we try to practice to the best of our ability, certain principles in our daily affairs.  

Minnesota Intergroup
P.O. Box 40023
St. Paul, MN 55104
Phone: (952) 922-3956

The JRN is a group for addicted people in recovery, as well as their families and friends, who feel a need for Jewish support and direction in addition to that gained from other 12-step programs. JRN sponsors monthly Open Meetings, speakers, an annual retreat and an annual Freedom From Addiction Seder.

Contact Joyce, (612) 545-2675

A statewide, toll-free, confidential 24-hour hotline to respond to Minnesota residents requests for information and/or referral for services for problem/compulsive gamblers and other concerned individuals.

Phone: (800) 437-3641

The Lawyers Assistance Program offers free, confidential help to lawyers, judges and law students affected by stress, depression and other mental health problems and/or chemical dependency which may impair their ability to perform competently and professionally.

Phone: (651) 646-5590 or
Toll Free: (866) 525-6466

Nicotine Anonymous® meetings consist of two or more people getting together to share a common desire to be free of nicotine. People share their experience, strength and hope. They learn what others have experienced while withdrawing from nicotine and how they use the Nicotine Anonymous program to obtain and keep their "smobriety". Telephone numbers are exchanged and friends are made. Sponsors are found to help us with the program. Perhaps most important, we find we are not alone in our struggle against nicotine.

Twin Cities Meeting List

Have you tried diet clubs, shots, pills, weight doctors, etc., only to achieve short-lived success followed by further failures-gaining and regaining weight each time? Have you known the despair of feeling fat? Are you thin now, but know you are on your way up? Is your eating out of control? Many people want long-term freedom from their obsession with food and weight and often use extreme and unhealthy measures to achieve this including purging and starving. While some are able to achieve this freedom on their own, the majority struggle most of their lives with the problem. Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a program based upon the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Today, it is an organization that has meetings on every continent and is growing. It treats the food and weight problem not as a lack of willpower or a moral defect, but as a disease that can be arrested. This 12-step program offers a recovery for the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of compulsive eating. OA is not a professional diet club. This organization does not endorse specific food plans or diets. OA offers a message of hope and recovery from this serious problem. No matter what size you are when you come to OA, if you want to be free of the obsession with food, the OA program can work for you. If you want to learn how to live a life free of compulsive eating, OA can help

Minneapolis -  Phone: (612) 825-2312
St. Paul - Phone: (651) 645-8678

Sex Addicts Anonymous, S.A.A., is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction and help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency.

Minneapolis, MN
PO Box 50286, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone: (651) 646-1970
 
Duluth, MN
5120 Juniata, Duluth, MN 55804
Phone: (218) 726-2222

Sexaholics Anonymous 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. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop lusting and become sexually sober. There are no dues or fees for SA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. SA 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 stay sexually sober and help others to achieve sexual sobriety. Sexaholics Anonymous is a recovery program based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous and received permission from AA to use its Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1979.

Phone: (952) 898-8047

SA seeks to help individuals stop shoplifting permanently, by providing effective programs and ongoing support services in a confidential setting, which have a proven record of success.

Phone: (952) 925-4860

Spender Anonymous is a community of men and women sharing our experience, strength and hope as we work toward clarity in our relationship with money. Some of us spend compulsively, or take on debt that we do not know how to repay. Some of us lack the confidence in our ability to earn money, while others have money, but lack the ability to manage it sanely.

Phone: (651) 649-4573

S.I.A., started in 1982, is a 12-step, self-help recovery program modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous. There are no dues or fees. Confidentiality is essential to our program. S.I.A. is for men and women, 18 years and older, who were sexually abused as children. You will not be rejected because you think your abuse was "too horrible," and you will not discounted because you think your abuse wasn't "bad enough to count."

Phone: (612) 332-0150

Workaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from workaholism. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop working compulsively. There are no dues or fees for WA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. WA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses not opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stop working compulsively and to carry the message of recovery to workaholics who still suffer.

Phone: (612) 985-1368