AA Arizona Area 03: Meetings, Service Info, and How to Get Help

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Area 03 is the Alcoholics Anonymous service area that covers Arizona. Its website, area03.org, is the entry point for three different needs: finding AA meetings in Arizona, getting help with a drinking problem right now, and understanding or participating in AA's service structure in the state. If you are looking for a meeting tonight, start with the AA Meetings section or a local telephone hotline. If you are a group servant — a GSR, DCM, or DCMC — the site holds the forms, handbooks, reports, and assembly information you need. If you want to contribute to Area 03, both mail and online options are listed.

Getting help with a drinking problem

The site's "Need Help Now?" section is written for anyone concerned about their drinking. It points to two things:

  • Telephone hotlines — you can talk to a recovering alcoholic in your local area by calling one of the listed hotlines. This is the fastest route to a conversation with someone who has been through it.
  • Information about AA itself — what the Fellowship is and is not, and how it works, for people who want to understand it before making contact.

The framing on the page is deliberately low-pressure: help is available "if and when you want it." You do not need to decide anything in advance to make a call.

Finding AA meetings in Arizona

The site has a dedicated AA Meetings section in the main menu, alongside meeting information for specific places including Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Flagstaff, and Gilbert. In practice, Arizona meetings are listed at two levels:

Level What it covers Where to look
Area 03 Statewide service area for Arizona area03.org, AA Meetings section
Local intergroup / central office Meetings in a city or metro area, plus local hotlines Linked from the Area 03 site and from local AA listings

If a search on the Area 03 site does not surface a meeting near you, the local intergroup or central office for your city is the next stop — those bodies maintain the day-to-day meeting schedules and staff the hotlines.

What Area 03 actually is

Area 03 is a service area, not a meeting group. Its purpose is to connect AA groups across Arizona for the business and coordination that individual groups cannot do alone. The site describes the Area 03 service structure as including:

  • Assemblies — Pre-Conference, Post-Conference, August, and November assemblies, plus Area 03 business assemblies. These are where the area's service business is conducted. The November Assembly online registration, for example, opens October 1.
  • Districts — the local subdivisions of the area.
  • Committees — including Archivist, CPC (Cooperation with the Professional Community), Corrections, Grapevine/La Viña, Literature, Public Information, Remote Communities, Spanish, Treatment, and Website.
  • Delegate and regional reporting — Delegate's Corner, PRAASA reports, and Pacific Region information.
  • Group panel assignments — listed for the 2026–2027 cycle.

Resources for service members

If you hold a service position — DCMC, DCM, or GSR — the site collects the working documents in one place:

  • Area 03 Reports
  • Area 03 Forms
  • Area 03 Handbooks
  • Area 03 Newsletters
  • Website Guidelines
  • Contacts

These are the practical materials for running a district or group service job: the forms you submit, the handbooks that explain procedure, and the reports that tell you what the area has been doing.

Contributing to Area 03

Group contributions can be made by mail or online. The mailing details as published on the site:

By mail — checks payable to Arizona Area Committee, sent to the address current for 2026–2027:

Arizona Area Committee 3661 N. Campbell Ave #605 Tucson, AZ 85719

The site notes this is a new address for 2026–2027 and asks that groups update their records. An online contribution option is also listed on the site.

Events calendar

The Events Calendar covers AA events around Arizona beyond the area's own assemblies — intergroup events, round-ups, and home group and special events. Examples currently listed include:

  • 2026 Corrections Conference — October 2–3, 2026, Mesa, AZ (flyers in English and Spanish)
  • 2026 Pacific Regional Forum — December 4–6, 2026, San Diego, CA (English flyer)
  • 2026 PI / CPC Conference — Saturday, November 21, 2026, Tempe, AZ

Check the calendar directly before traveling, since dates and locations are set by the hosting committees.