The East Coast Convention of NA came to Florida — and its largest-ever literature distribution followed: over 100 packages of Fellowship-Approved literature packed and delivered to institutions across the state.
Read more →Not every facility has a meeting yet — but a letter can reach anywhere. Through Hope Rises, an incarcerated addict writes to request NA literature and a Basic Text or other book-length material ships back free of charge, directly from the distributor.
After ECCNA 2025, over 100 packages of literature went out to institutions across Florida in a single distribution — the program's largest ever.
Through Hope Rises, incarcerated addicts write to request NA literature — a Basic Text, step guides, meeting formats — and books ship back free of charge, in English or Spanish. Volunteers who answer those letters see, in the writers' own words, what a message of recovery means behind the walls.
Volunteers: have an excerpt the writer gave permission to share? Send it to cwo@naflorida.org.
A minimum of one year clean, all Florida DOC-required training complete, and background checks through the DOC's Office of Programs and Re-entry Volunteer Services.
Male volunteers carry the message into male facilities; female volunteers into female facilities.
Meetings focus on the 12 Steps, following best practices from Behind the Walls programs running for decades across the U.S.
Only worldwide Fellowship-Approved NA literature — provided free, in English and Spanish where available.
The long-term goal: inmates lead their own meetings, with outside volunteers attending as participants — the same meeting they'll find in the community after release.
