The Alano Club of Portland

I am so incredibly grateful to have discovered Alano Club! ❤ It is a blessing to be able to meet with individuals who have experienced a similar path in life and seeking to evolve and become better person. There is a group available for everyone seeking healing 🙏🏾 Thus far I have accomplished 6 months of sobriety (I will be getting My 6 month chip! 😍) and having a valuable resource like the Alano has been a blessing. The location is convenient and very accessible. I recommend visiting the website so you can see which meetings work best with your schedule ❤

One of my home groups is located here. I love this building and what it stands for. Some of the things that continue to happen to me here is less than desirable, but it’s people still in some form of addiction. - let’s just say someone needs to be mindful of the coffee sometimes. It was hard to actually realize what happened and being a silent member of certain groups it’s hard to speak up about certain things. Sometimes even when you take the “mind altering” piece out of them, some things still linger. It’s life. I appreciate all the special events they also offer here when I’m able to utilize them. How can you not love adding more weapons to your arsenal to help combat our disease’s? There is always pros and cons to a place. I appreciate this space even on a bad day. It helps knowing I live right down the street so I can come here just to draw strength without even having to speak to annyone to be able to handle another 24.

Felt unwelcoming. The lady there kicked me out even though I was just browsing the brochures and there were still like a dozen people upstairs. I was neatly dressed and very quiet. Maybe she just had a bad day. It was a bad first impression that’s all. I’d give it a try again if it were closer but I don’t recommend going to a meeting there Saturday night. But I did sense a negative spiritual aura in that place. Thankfully most other reviews prove my opinion wrong.

Good place to network for continuous sobriety and make friends

Love this Place. Very friendly atmosphere, helpful staff, many Self help meetings and fellowships, there's something for everyone in the recovery community here. They also have many workshops, events and activities such as Yoga, mindfulness meditation and even seminars help by professionals on the field of addiction treatment.

Great AA hall and I travel nationwide for a living. Tons of rooms for meetings, well staffed and cool environment for meeting’s especially in the basement. Wide variety of programs and different meetings.

I'm amazed at how much mental illness, physical decline, spiritual deadness, social disorder, and ecological apathy is in Portland. I have gone to 2 meetings here and, as a psychic and empath, feel very depressed afterwards.. The AA model is not about holistic healing, it is a sort of mid-level cult where people who have no concept of "higher power", "meditation", "healing" (i could go on step by step so to speak) join a 20th century attempt by an individual who had a lifetime of problems but never fully stayed sober himself. I find the word choices and the auras of many people there very depressing and mentally ill. Some are doing great for sure, but if anyone looks at the research of the sucess of the AA model, it's not a bed of roses, definitely not in the rose city.

I have attended Dawn Patrol and the noon meetings during visits to Portland since 2002. “The realm of the spirit is broad, roomy, ever inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding ...” BB p. 45. This aptly sums up the ALANO Club as well.

Their recovery help works. I'm 4 months sober now. They really exceeded my expectations.

Lets talk about Dawn Patrol in the mornings. Sucks for the BIPOC newcomer! I've been over and over again, hoping to, needing to share. These legacy "older white men" govern the group. Every so often, a woman can speak, she's usually over 40 and mostly every speaker chosen is someone who either has clean time of 5+ years or is a returning remembered face who went out for a while, years clean and needs to get sh*t off of their chest. Bless their hearts, I mean that, for they know not what they do, its covert here in White Utopia, it inevitably boils right out of 'em, this connotation of covert ...... Im not going to say it. I don't want to assume nor point fingers, but you can believe, Ill tell the whole group, or face to face. Today, after needing to share, after listening to the legacy 'ol goats use the pass and tag method they have that SUCKS!! (there's too many remembered faces who tag each other day in, day out, not cognizant of the BIPOC person who might want to share, who is sitting there bursting with anger, pain, frustration and all of the nuances we need to release) wont and doesn't get the chance to share. When you do, rushing after NUMEROUS meetings to get this out as one of the several convenient and fantastically structured places to go, it is solid folks, there is always coffee and someone there, many to speak with after as well, when you share and go on, no timer is used and the old boys look at you with discomforting glare, unwelcoming, kind of like "who is this cocky guy, what do we care, hurry up dude" thing. Its always, I mean ALWAYS weird. This isn't just my perception, I've talked to BIPOC after, before, during and at other meetings. Don't hold presence with color and expect to share. You'll have about maybe 1 in 15 chances to share, literally. But Buck, Jed and Sharon will share and tag each other, thanking each other for their share. Joquan, Malik or Tae wont get a word in, leavin' frustrated. Its just what they do at Dawn Patrol. Now, I've been there over the years so so many times trying to make it work hoping for change. Long after Im gone, the covert clan, the legacy members who come from the West Hills, come from Oregon City, come from Beaverton, come from the farms, come from outer regions with their upscale or solid running cars, before work feeling fresh and clean, will be doing the same thing. They are here, they feel comfortable, this is their clan. Its not yours and , its clear. Im going to give up ever thinking it might be different. Im sober, I've been sober, Im clean, as a whistle. Im educated, clean cut, smooth about my language but sharp, and im done. Please know that if you are BIPOC, yea, good luck, if you are a newcomer, policy says they have to "welcome you" and they do! But you know those who say one thing and do the other? You are not welcome as much as you need,. Alano Club is solid! But that meeting is run and for elderly white men over 45 who ran the gamut and don't need to hear young feisty, successful and motivated people, especially f color, trying to get cleaner and more sober. Go to another at Alano, they're great, beware of my warnings, its there. Dawn Patrol sucks. Im tired of folks talking and me hiding it. Im keeping it real for the newcomer. Its no wonder there is a lot of "returning legacy folks that are back after "going out". Fellas, consider restructure of your share approach, like the basement where there is tickets, and have them puty BURN on the back if they need to talk so as to pass over a missed ticket or something. Do something "fellas", you know who you are.

A must see and attend meeting place for recovery in Portland, a donated house in a nice neighborhood!

Everything. Great people. Great meetings. Great staff. Beautiful old restored historic pdx home. Street parking. Or purchase parking pass for parking lot behind the house. So much free resources to utilize

I have attended 12 Step Meetings before and have never been actually interested in them, until I went to the Alano Club! The building has a great energy and gifts are a beautiful vibe. Any of the meetings I have attended there are awesome and the people who go there are great. If you are looking for a 12 step meeting, this is the place to go.