Online Service Area

In 1995, Cocaine Anonymous created its first web site. Almost immediately, the C.A. office began to receive dozens of emails each day. Among the emails received were emails asking: "Are there any online C.A. meetings?"

The first online C.A. meeting, "Hope, Faith & Courage" was opened on February 1, 1997. In 1999, "Sisters In Sobriety” and “The Study” meetings were started. Also in 1999, the online groups joined together to create an Online Service Committee using the internet domain of "ca-online.org." One year later, at the C.A. World Service Conference of 2000, the Online Service Committee was granted “area” status making it the online equivalent of the traditional areas that make up the C.A. fellowship. In this way, www.ca-online.org became the Cocaine Anonymous Online Service Area.

Subsequently, in 2001, the “There is a Solution” meeting was formed, and a year later, the “Steps Online” meeting began operation. In 2010, taking advantage of voice-over-internet technology, the "4th Dimension" group was created to offer online voice meetings.

Today, there are now 6 online C.A. meetings with hundreds of members participating from countries through the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.