About AA – Alcoholics Anonymous – Seward
AA – Alcoholics Anonymous in Seward, Alaska is a 12-Step addiction recovery program for youth and adults. They offer peer-directed, community-based care, including gender-specific and specialized services for adolescents, young adults, seniors, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and persons with co-occurring disorders.
Community-Based Program
Clients in AA engage in intensive, peer-coordinated, group counseling. Meetings are free, anonymous, open to the public, and available 365 days per year, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Clients also receive one-on-one recovery coaching from a self-selected peer sponsor.
The 12-Step Model
The 12-Step model of recovery emphasizes whole-person healing that supports clients’ physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual healing based on a stages-of-change model. Clients participate in extensive, recovery-focused life-skills training that addresses topics such as coping, self-care, accountability, forgiveness, trauma resolution, wellness, and relapse prevention.
Payment
All services provided by AA, including group counseling and addiction education programs, are free. However, peer referrals to paid service providers may be provided. Many medical, mental health, and addiction recovery specialists work with commercial insurers, such as Aetna, Cigna, BlueCross BlueShield, and Humana, to offset treatment costs. Check with your insurance provider to verify coverage, because out of network benefits can vary.