Areas & Districts

Minnesota is one of 6 states in the US that are divided into 2 Areas

Al Anon and Alateen in the United States and Canada is made up of 67 Areas. In the US, most Areas consist of a whole state. Minnesota has two Areas:

Minnesota North Al-Anon, made up of 11 districts
Minnesota South Al-Anon, made up of 21 districts

The boundary consists of the north borders of Washington, Anoka, Wright, Meeker, Kandiyohi, Swift and Big Stone counties. Most of the groups in the Twin Cities metropolitan area are in the Minnesota South Area, although a few are in the Minnesota North Area or the Wisconsin Area.

Areas, including Minnesota South, have regularly scheduled Assemblies (April and October for Minnesota South) attended by Group Representatives (GRs) from groups in the Area as well as any Al Anon or Alateen members who wish to attend. They gather for the common purpose of reviewing Area finances, policies and procedures, electing officers (every 3 years), discussing the general business of the Area and ways the Area can help families and friends of Alcoholics through its trusted servants and groups.

Al‑Anon/Alateen Areas are divided into Districts, each containing one or more Al‑Anon and/or Alateen groups.

Each district should have a District Representative (DR) as well as other District officers, but not all do. Most districts have regularly scheduled district meetings to which every group in the district is entitled to send its GR.

Groups

Groups of Al-Anon and Alateen members are formed within the districts and hold regular, usually weekly, meetings.

Members

Are people who joined Al-Anon/Alateen seeking like-minded people for support and for sharing experience, strength and hope with the family disease of alcoholism.

Minnesota South Area is divided into 21 Districts. Previous to redistricting accomplished at the March 2015 Area Assembly, there were 44 districts, although many were not organized and existed only on paper, lacking even a DR. There were even a couple of districts with no groups. Before the redistricting, multiple districts (for example Districts 31 – 33) functioned as a single district. The March 2015 redistricting made such combinations single districts.

Districts within Minnesota South Area

District 1: Washington County
District 2: Dakota County
District 3: Goodhue, Rice and Wabasha Counties
District 4: Fillmore, Houston, Olmstead and Winona Counties
District 5: Anoka County north of 85^th Avenue
District 6: Anoka County south of 85^th Avenue
District 7: Ramsey County except for St. Paul and St. Anthony. This includes Arden Hills, Falcon Heights, Gem Lake, Lauderdale, Little Canada, Mounds View, New Brighton, North Oaks, Roseville, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, and White Bear Lake
District 8: Saint Paul
District 9: Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Corcoran, Crystal, Dayton, Greenfield, Hassan, Independence, Maple Grove, Maple Plain, Medina, Minnetrista, New Hope, Osseo, Plymouth, Robbinsdale, Rogers, and St. Bonifacius.
District 10: Minneapolis and St. Anthony, except for the area bounded on the west by the St. Louis Park and Edina, on the south by Highway 62 (Crosstown), on the east by I35W and by a northern boundary consisting of Lake Street, Hennepin Avenue and I394
District 11: Crystal Bay, Deephaven, Eden Prairie, Edina, Excelsior, Golden Valley, Greenwood, Hopkins, Long Lake, the part of Minneapolis not included in District 10, Minnetonka, Minnetonka Beach, Navarre, Orono, Shorewood, Spring Park, St. Louis Park, Tonka Bay, Wayzata, and Woodland
District 12: Bloomington and Richfield
District 13: Carver and Scott Counties
District 14: Dodge, Freeborn, Mower, Steele and Waseca Counties
District 15: McLeod and Wright Counties
District 16: Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet and Sibley Counties and the northern parts of Blue Earth and Watonwan Counties. The dividing line is from the western border of Watonwan County, 10 miles south of Darfur to the eastern border of Blue Earth County, 10 miles south of St. Clair
District 17: Faribault, Martin and the southern parts of Blue Earth and Watonwan Counties
District 18: Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac Qui Parle and Swift Counties
District 19: Kandiyohi, Meeker and Renville Counties
District 20: Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood and Yellow Medicine Counties
District 21: Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and Rock Counties