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
Carry the message to health professionals with Issue III of the Professional Community Courier. The Courier is written by health professionals, for health professionals and aims to educate about the benefits the Overeaters Anonymous program offers to patients and clients. This issue includes moving testimonials from both a doctor who joined OA and found relief … Continued
Do you have a passion for translation? Help carry the message of OA to the still-suffering compulsive eater today by educating your service body on our translations process! The Translation Basics Workshop, with a brief thirteen slides, can be presented during your usual OA meeting or at your service body’s next workshop or conference. Find … Continued
College can be an especially tumultuous and difficult time for the young compulsive eater. With that in mind, the World Service Business Conference Young People’s Committee has taken the initiative to create a letter carrying our OA message to higher education staff, informing them of the hope that OA has to offer still-suffering students. The … Continued
The Twelve Concepts of OA Service are our primary guide to conducting OA business and the keys to OA-service success. Use our new “Twelve Concepts of OA Service Workshop,” available in both PPTX (large file) and PDF file formats, at your next Fellowship event to explore the Principles of the Concepts and encourage a better … Continued
This simple, straightforward two-page guide is designed to help members structure a brief informational meeting for newcomers, which can be held before, after, or even during a regularly scheduled OA meeting. These Guidelines summarize what vital topics of discussion introduce OA: the assurance of anonymity, the commonality of our compulsive eating problem, and the primary purpose of … Continued
Public information and professional outreach (PIPO) committees throughout the OA Fellowship have new tools to carry the message to the still-suffering compulsive eater who is searching for a solution. “OA has your back” is a new public service annoucement (PSA) video that depicts the range of problems with food that compulsive eaters might deal with … Continued