Guidelines

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Guidelines

Some items to include in the guidelines are:

* Statement of purpose
* Functions
* The Twelve Steps
* Twelve Traditions
* The Twelve Concepts of NA Service.
* Committee structure (leaders, members &
voting)
* Responsibilities officers and members
* How decisions are made
* How often the committee meets

(Several samples of PI Committee guidelines are available in the PI Resources section of this website.)

As soon as the PI subcommittee agrees within itself that its guidelines are finished, the guidelines are then sent to the subcommittee’s ASC or RSC for approval.

If guidelines for your committee are already in place, you won’t have to spend a great deal of time and energy to create them. Remember, guidelines are supposed to describe the way the PI committee actually functions. They should help, not hinder our ability to carry the message.

If changing or adding to the guidelines will help the committee do its job better, go ahead and change them. However, it is generally not a good idea to try to make the guidelines an exhaustive set of specific rules which describe every situation that could possibly come up. Have faith, keep it simple, and get on with the business of carrying the message.

The most important thing to keep in mind when working on structure, guidelines, procedures is to keep it simple. Remember, the more we talk about policy and procedures, the less time and energy we have to carry the message.

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