Our Regions Map was recently updated to reflect the disbanding of Region Four and the allocation of Region Four’s geographic territory to adjacent OA regions, namely Regions One, Three, and Five. The new map reflects a group conscience decision made one year ago by the Region Four board to disband as well as subsequent decisions … Continued
Webmasters, newsletter editors, and document creators can now get “permalinks” to documents on oa.org. A permalink does not change or break when OA updates a document in the Document Library. To get a document’s permalink, go to the Document Library or any other document link on oa.org. Instead of opening the document, right click, option … Continued
In celebration of Sponsorship Day, the Strategic Planning Sponsorship Subcommittee has put together material to highlight the many sponsorship resources available on oa.org. See Sponsorship Resources for a click-through menu of sponsorship topics and watch the video, which shows where to find all our recovery and service materials on our Fellowship’s website. We wish you … Continued
OA’s Board of Trustees has appointed new trustees to fill vacant positions. Congratulations and welcome to new and returning trustees who have formed the OA board for 2024–2025! Officers Chair Meg M First Vice Chair Barb K Second Vice Chair BJ J Treasurer Bob L Executive Committee Officers above, plus Blair P * Bruce R … Continued
Are your service body’s bylaws consistent with World Service Business Conference policies? Do you know when they were last reviewed? Our new Service Body Bylaws Checklist can help you answer these questions and guide your service body toward establishing a regular process to review, revise, and approve its bylaws. The Service Body Bylaws Checklist is … Continued
If you are looking for complete details about the status of all New Business Motions and Bylaw Amendments considered at World Service Business Conference (WSBC) 2024, look no further than the Wrap-Up Report now posted on the WSBC web page. The report also includes a summary of representation among OA’s service bodies and which OA … Continued
Update June 3, 2024: The summary of the amendment to policy 1982e has been edited for accuracy. Under the banner “We ALL Belong: Welcome to OA!”, 188 delegates hailing from twenty-one countries and speaking fourteen languages gathered May 7–11 in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA, to convene what turned out to be a most successful World … Continued
Service bodies outside the US may be able to boost OA’s online profile among people searching for recovery from anorexia and bulimia. A new letter, “Adding OA to Trusted Eating Disorder Websites Outside the US,” explains how. If you’ve searched anorexia- or bulimia-related topics on popular search engines or social media sites, you may have … Continued
OA recently released new Public Service Announcement (PSA) videos online for groups and service bodies to use to carry the message. Recently, both the new videos and a few older PSAs were enhanced with subtitles in these sixteen languages: Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Czech Dutch French German Hindi Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Spanish … Continued
OA’s Public Information and Professional Outreach (PIPO) Committee has just released a new letter template, titled Assisting Medical and Health Care Students and Professionals. This letter, intended for OA service bodies around the world to use when approaching institutions of higher health care learning, helps our service bodies arrange to make presentations about OA to doctors, nurses, counselors, … Continued