This is for every group and staff survivor from a Meehan affiliated Enthusiastic Sobriety Program / Alternative Peer Group.

You can be a survivor from an already closed program, a current member of the group, or someone who was there for several years or only a few weeks.

We have collected complaints from survivors from the 1970s to members currently in the program.

If you are a group or staff survivor or a current member, please fill out the anonymous mass complaint form!

Your complaint will be submitted to the State Addiction Counseling Licensing Boards for every program you attended or were employed. For example, if you went to The Crossroads Program in Missouri for Outpatient and was sent to Step 2 Recovery in Arizona, your complaint will be submitted to both the Missouri and Arizona licensing boards. The same thing is applied to Staff survivors. We will be sending your complaint to every state you attended as a client, as well as each state you worked in as a Staff member.

Your anonymous data will also be compiled along with every other survivor from your state(s) and posted on our website under the Program Data page.

Non-identifying write-in responses are anonymously quoted to relevant topics throughout our Survivor Support Pages and our social media.

Fill it out ASAP!

We have already begun the reporting process in certain states - but we will be accepting complaints until these programs are closed.

We aim to collect these complaints and submit them in bulk to state agencies. We currently have over 250 complaints from survivors in AZ, CA, CO, GA, KS, MO, NC and TX.

Please fill it out as soon as you get a chance. This will help us prepare and organize the complaints for when we report to each state.

If you are from a state where the reporting process has already begun - do not worry, yours will be added and your complaint will be heard!

The questions are primarily multiple choice or check boxes in order to be more trauma sensitive. Each section of questions also has room for write-in explanations. The sections are:

Basic Information

Physical Events

Sexual / Inappropriate Events

Emotional / Psychological Events

Health Related Events

Discriminatory Events

Undue Influence Implications

Long Term Implications

Comments & Contact

All questions are optional except for a few in the Basic Information and Comments and Contact section.

It’s pretty thorough. On average, it can take 30 - 40 minutes. It is best to try and fill it out on a computer than a tablet or phone. This is so you can leave the complaint form open on a browser and take breaks.

There is no way to save your progress on the complaint form, so folks who have attempted to fill it out via phone or tablet have often lost their work and had to start over.

The only way your responses are saved is when you hit submit at the end of the form.

Yes! Only two people on the ESAAlliance Board of Directors have access to this complaint form.

We do collect emails - but names are optional.

If you would like to take an extra step to protect your anonymity entirely, create a burner email address that doesn’t include your name.

No - it’s a one time thing.

If you feel that you forgot something, or would like to say more in your complaint - email liz@esaalliance.org and we will make sure your additional testimony will be included in the reporting process.

Unfortunately, no. This complaint form is geared towards group and staff survivors.

However, we do have an option for parents to submit an official complaint with our individual ethical complaint forms.