Overeaters Anonymous (OA) announces the Delegate Support Fund to help underfunded intergroup and service boards send delegates to the 2025 World Service Business Conference (WSBC), held virtually from May 4–10, 2025. For our virtual Conference, this fund can cover registration fees, technology needs, interpretation, and more, ensuring greater diversity and participation from among our Fellowship. … 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
Congratulations and welcome to our newest OA service bodies registered with the World Service Office! List updated quarterly. Intergroup Warszawska Groups supported by this service body Affiliated with Region Nine Registered June 14, 2024 Abstinence of 90 Day Intergroup Groups supported by this service body Affiliated with Iran’s Overeaters Anonymous National Service Board Registered June … Continued
The Professional Exhibits Fund has money available to help your service body participate in a trade conference or a convention for professionals who may refer patients and clients to OA. Take a look at the application to see what expenses OA can help cover. To ensure you have everything you need for your professional exhibit, … 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
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