Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a
twelve-step program
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by B ...
for people who share a common desire to develop functional and healthy relationships.
Co-Dependents Anonymous was founded by Ken and Mary Richardson and the first CoDA meeting attended by 30 people was held October 22, 1986 in
Phoenix, Arizona
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.
'...I had completed hundreds of evaluations for co-dependency on patients and family members and found a great many of these people were not adult children or friends, family members, or relatives of alcoholics.'
Within four weeks there were 100 people and before the year was up there were 120 groups.
CoDA held its first National Service Conference the next year with 29 representatives from seven states.
CoDA has stabilized at about a thousand meetings in the US, and with meetings active in 60 other countries and dozens online that can be reached at www.coda.org.
CoDA meeting indexes managed independently
include:
Alternative Format VE (Virtual meetings)AustralasiaCanadaGermanyIrelandIsraelNetherlandsSouth AfricaUnited KingdomFrance
See also
* Alcoholism in family systems
Alcoholism in family systems refers to the conditions in families that enable alcoholism and the effects of alcoholic behavior by one or more family members on the rest of the family. Mental health professionals are increasingly considering alcoho ...
* Adult Children of Alcoholics
Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families (ACA or ACOA) founded circa 1978 is a fellowship of people who desire to recover from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family. ACA membership has few formal r ...
* Al-Anon/Alateen
Al-Anon Family Groups, founded in 1951, is an international mutual aid organization for people who have been impacted by another person's alcoholism. In the organization's own words, Al-Anon is a "worldwide fellowship that offers a program of reco ...
* Codependency
In psychology, codependency is a theory that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive behavior, such as addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-ach ...
* Emotions Anonymous
Emotions Anonymous (EA) is a twelve-step program for recovery from mental and emotional illness.It is modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous. Founded in 1971, it is a self-help organization that offers peer support to people experiencing a wide ran ...
* List of twelve-step groups
This is a list of Wikipedia articles about specific Twelve-step program, twelve-step recovery programs and fellowships. These programs, and the groups of people who follow them, are based on the set of guiding principles for recovery from wiktio ...
* Nar-Anon
Nar-Anon, known officially as "Nar-Anon Family Groups", is a twelve-step program for friends and family members of those who are affected by someone else's addiction. Nar-Anon is complementary to, but separate from, Narcotics Anonymous (NA), anal ...
* Self-help groups for mental health
Self-help groups for mental health are voluntary associations of people who share a common desire to overcome mental illness or otherwise increase their level of cognitive or emotional wellbeing. Despite the different approaches, many of the psych ...
* Twelve Traditions
The Twelve Traditions of twelve-step programs provide guidelines for relationships between the twelve-step groups, members, other groups, the global fellowship, and society at large. Questions of finance, public relations, donations, and purpose ar ...
References
External links
Co-Dependents Anonymous
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Australasia
Co-Dependents Anonymous Belgium
Co-Dependents Anonymous Brazil (Portuguese)
Co-Dependents Anonymous Canada
Co-Dependientes anónimos
(Colombia)
Co-Dependents Anonymous Finland
Co-Dependents Anonymous France
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Francophone
Co-Dependents Anonymous Germany
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Iceland
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Iran
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Ireland
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Israel
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Latvia
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Malaysia
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Mexico
Co-Dependents Anonymous Netherlands
Co-Dependents Anonymous United Kingdom (and Meeting Information)
Co-Dependents Anonymous New Zealand
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Russia
Co-Dependents Anonymous Russia - St Petersburg
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Spain
Co-Dependents Anonymous - Sweden
Co-Dependents Anonymous Online Forum
CoDA Literature
Co-Dependents Anonymous UK & Europe Literature
Co-Dependents Recovery Society
(Canadian Store)
US States
Co-Dependents Anonymous Arizona
Desert CoDA
LA CoDA
NorCal - North California CoDA
Co-Dependents Anonymous Portland, Oregon and Metro Area
SoCal - South California CoDA
Co-Dependents Anonymous Texas
Co-Dependents Anonymous Tucson
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