Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Cleveland

What is Alcoholics Anonymous?

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a free support group for those struggling with alcohol addiction. Regular group meetings are available throughout Cleveland.

Westside Club

• Monday 8:00 pm (Closed Meeting)
• Tuesday 8:00 pm (Open Speaker Meeting)
• Saturday 8:00 pm (Open Speaker Meeting)

Closed meetings are for AA members only, while open meetings welcome both members and non-members. Speaker meetings feature AA members sharing their stories.

Buckeye Region Main Office

• Monday-Friday 6:00 am and 8:30 am (Closed Discussion Meetings)
• Tuesday 12:00 pm (Open Speaker Meeting)

Discussion meetings involve members talking about their challenges and successes. The Monday-Friday morning meetings help members maintain sobriety.

Howland Serenity

• Sunday 10:30 am (Open Speaker Meeting)
• Friday 8:00 pm (Closed Discussion Meeting)

This AA group offers both open and closed meetings in a community-focused environment.

The 12 Steps of AA

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) outlines a 12-step program to help members achieve and maintain sobriety. The steps aim to motivate members toward positive change across Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. We 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 alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Getting Started with AA in Cleveland

Use the meeting search on wfmh.org to find local meetings in your area. Cleveland has both in-person and online/virtual AA meetings available.

Attending Your First Local AA Meeting

There are open and closed AA meetings in Cleveland. Open meetings welcome anyone interested in Alcoholics Anonymous, while closed meetings are for those who have a desire to stop drinking. Here is an overview:

Arrive 10 minutes early and introduce yourself to the meeting chairperson as a new local member. Share about your experiences if you feel comfortable. At your first meeting, you’ll likely receive some welcome keychain tags marking sobriety milestones with AA:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 9 months
• 1 year