What does Region IV do for your Intergroup or Group?

• Serves as a pipeline to communicate directly with the World Service Office, other regions, other intergroups, and other groups.
• Provides a personal, immediate means of answering urgent questions from individuals, groups or intergroups through phoning, writing, or e-mailing the region trustee.
• Arranges sessions in which leaders within intergroups share exciting and effective ways of building abstinence, membership retention, and other vital issues twice a year during Region IV assemblies.
• Provides funding assistance, based on need, to help intergroups send representatives to region assembly meetings.
• Provides funding assistance, based on need, to help intergroups send delegates to World Service Business Conferences.
• Provides funding assistance, based on need, to help intergroups develop public information programs to spread the word about OA more effectively in their areas.
• Provides funding resources to pay for travel, postage, telephone, printing, and other expenses supporting the work of region committees and projects to help OA in Region IV.
• Maintains a Region office and hires an office manager to carry out the work necessary in handling correspondence, donations and other responsibilities that keep OA functioning smoothly.
• Publishes a quarterly newsletter, “IVThought,” sharing recovery articles, listing region OA events, and printing reports from spring and fall assemblies.
• Holds two region assemblies annually, one in fall and one in spring, during which intergroup representatives and the region board meet to administer and coordinate OA planning activities. Attendees serve on one of four committees—convention, outreach, ways and means/finance, and communication—whose members work throughout the year and during assembly with the single purpose of spreading the message of recovery.
• Maintains a Website www.oaregion4.org that lists events, provides forms to download, and serves as a link to the main OA website, www.oa.org and www.overeatersanonymous.org for other information including current meeting times and locations.
• Works with unaffiliated groups to link them with intergroups.
• Maintains a list of region OA speakers available to speak at events within the region.
• Hosts a Region convention every two years for a weekend of recovery.
• Provides travel funds for region officers to give service and tradition workshops in your area if your intergroup would like to host one.
• Publishes and updates the Region IV Manual, which explains the history, functions, bylaws, policies, procedures, and continuing effect motions adopted by Region IV.