Responsible for suggesting policies and recommending activities that will help carry the message to the still-suffering alcoholic through sharing information about the AA program with professional groups and individuals who have contact with alcoholics, furthering mutual understanding and cooperation between AA and professionals, increasing awareness of members and outside groups and organizations on ways of cooperating with others without affiliating. [Source: AA service Manual] Members of this committee “are AAs who have a specific responsibility for keeping the public accurately informed about AA. They make special efforts to insure that local professionals and agencies working with alcoholics know about AA and how to refer problem drinkers to us.” “We should repeatedly point out to the public the unique nonprofessional nature of AA help, the fact that it is given free, and the exact services that AA does and does not offer.”