- Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one authority: a loving Higher Power, as this one may express her/himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for membership is that you be a victim of childhood sexual abuse, that you desire to recover from it, and that you, as an adult, have not sexually abused any child.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting another group or SlA as a whole.
- Each SIA group has but one primary purpose: to carry its message to the survivor of childhood sexual abuse who still suffers.
- An SIA group ought never to endorse, finance, or lend the SIA name to any outside enterprise lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary objective.
- SIA strives to be fully self-supporting and will not accept contributions that compromise SIA’s autonomy or mission. *)
- Survivors of Incest Anonymous Twelve Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
- Survivors of Incest Anonymous groups, as such, ought never be organized, but they may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- Survivors of Incest Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence, the SIA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- SIA public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films and television.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
*) SIA NY INTERGROUP considers any donation initiated by, or in memory or support of an individual survivor member, such as one from a friend or relative, a place of employment, proceeds from a publication or other entity, or in support of SIA as a whole, to be within the self-supporting part of the SIA Seventh Tradition. SIA NY Intergroup considers donations made as a result of a survivor’s involvement with SIA to be directly related to that survivor; these donations are therefore considered part of the SIA self-supporting tradition.