Gam-Anon / Gam-A-Teen
A twelve-step fellowship for families and friends of compulsive gamblers.
What the fellowship is
Gam-Anon, with Gam-A-Teen for younger members, is for the spouses, families and close friends of compulsive gamblers. Because gambling's damage is financial, its harm to a family is often discovered all at once.
What members describe
Not a checklist and not a diagnosis — just what people in Gam-Anon commonly say brought them in.
- Fear about money that has gone with no explanation attached
- Searching pockets, post or statements for evidence
- Debts paid off, crises resolved, reputations protected
- Anger and mistrust that sit alongside still loving them
- A family's security resting on somebody else's next decision
Your first meeting
Gam-Anon meetings understand financial infidelity specifically — the hidden accounts, the second loan, the sum that turns out to be larger than the first sum. Members work on detaching from the crises and protecting their own footing.
Where 12Gradus fits
12Gradus is software for the sponsor, not a substitute for one and not part of any fellowship. Nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by Gam-Anon / Gam-A-Teen.
A sponsee's profile records that they are in Gam-Anon / Gam-A-Teen and dates their clean time from their recovery start. Daily check-ins, a self-reported urge score, high-risk days noted beside the chart, a rough-moment button that reaches the sponsor immediately, secure chat and a text bridge all work the same in every programme.
The step work is the part that does not. The built-in library is written for Gamblers Anonymous. A sponsor in Gam-Anon assigns their own materials instead — which works, and is what sponsors have always done, but it is not the same as having Gam-Anon's own step work in the app.