ACOA Founders Dr. Jan & Lisa Woititz since 1978.

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) Co-Founder since 1978.  Lisa Woititz has been called "The First ACOA" because the ACOA Recovery Movement was founded by her late mother, Dr. Janet Geringer Woititz, out of concern that her children would a suffer lifelong impact from growing up with alcoholism at home.