Omaha Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Intergroup

Omaha has what we believe to be the oldest 'S' fellowship clubhouse in the world.  We opened our first SLAA clubhouse in 1987 in a very small space next to a barbershop and just beneath a takeout bar-b-que restaurant.

We had been meeting in two Presbyterian churches.  There was a scandal involving a Presbyterian minister in central Nebraska.   The churches asked us to find other locations for our meetings.  Somehow we developed a resentment and decided that we should take matters into our own hands and began a search for retail or office space so we wouldn't be at the mercy of others.  It only took a couple of weeks to find a space and we had our first clubhouse.

Initially we went through the process of creating a 501(c)(3) corporation.  We named the corporation SLAA of Omaha.  We realize today that the name is a violation of Tradition Six, "An S.L.A.A. group or S.L.A.A. as a whole ought never to endorse, finance, or lend the S. L. A. A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose." We spent way too much time trying to have our Intergroup control the club.

We finally realized our mistake and ditched the S.L.A.A. of Omaha corporation, instead forming a separate entity called the Dodge Street Club when we had to move to a larger facility on Dodge Street to accommodate the larger number of addicts attending our meetings. We realized that we must be doing something right.

We are now in our third location. This moved was necessary when the office building we were renting space in was sold and torn down to make way for an Office Max.

Early on in Omaha, you had to be ‘screened’ before being allowed to know where and when our meetings were held. Today we are listed in the phone book, our answering machine message lists all of the meetings we have, and now this website allows us another opportunity to let sex and love addicts who still suffer find their way (your way) into our meetings and our fellowship.

Currently we have the meetings shown on the Meeting List as well as some meetings of other 'S' fellowships.   Please send us an email if you know of other ‘S’ fellowship clubhouses.