Aug 16, 2025 – WSOB Minutes

WSOB MINUTES AUGUST 16, 2025

SERENITY PRAYER – Yves invites the room to open with the serenity prayer.

TRADITION – Tai reads the 8^th Tradition.

CONCEPT –  Robert reads the 8^th Concept.

ROLL CALL & QUORUM DETERMINATION

Present:

• Jonathan H.  Treasurer.
• Jesse G.Director of Conv & Conf.
• Tai B.Director of Operations
• Kimberly C.   Secretary
• Morten V.DAL
• Wesley B.DAL
• Joni E., WST
• Robert B. SWOT
• Justin C.CAWS 2026 Chair
• Devon, CAWS 2027 Secretary
• Crawford, CAWS 2028 Chair

Guests:

• Kalob T. Member At Large
• Simonne M.  Member At Large
• Maria K. Member At Large

CHAIR ANNOUNCEMENTS

July 19, 2025, minutes were approved.

SEVENTH TRADITION –

Observed in the office, online members are directed towards ca.org.

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CAWS CONVENTION REPORTS

CAWS 2026 (Florida) Justin C.

Highlights:

• The CAWS 2026 Convention is continuing our forward momentum. We’ve booked well beyond our original 1150 room block and the hotel continues to honor our rate.
• Registrations are trickling in at a decent rate for this time, likely due to our offering early registration pricing.
• The second volume of our newsletter will be published on 8/15/25.
• A few pledges for basket donations from the Fellowship have come in, with a goal of at least 20 total baskets donated.
• Fundraising events are still being scheduled and held. Program and onsite events are filling in as members are reaching out to facilitate workshops, 8 total thus far.
• A PI Roadshow is planned, and free entertainment events ideas are being considered. No definite on Co-Anon presence yet, we’re hoping to learn about any commitment from them soon.

CAWS 2027 (Washington) Nathan H.

Highlights:

• Steering/General Committee: Both the committees will now meet monthly starting 08/25 @ 9am on Zoom. The steering committee will meet at 8:30 monthly prior to general committee.
• Fundraising committee meets the 2^nd Monday of every month @ 7:15pm in person and via zoom. Ideas are being discussed for larger events, small events, and merch. Budgets, dates, locations, and additional details being discussed for 2025 and for 2026 accordingly.
• Local “Carnival” event took place on Saturday August 2^nd. Event had great attendance and committee did an amazing job.
• 19 committee members attended a walk through at the Sheraton Hotel on July 26th. We were able to see all the event space and get some clarification for our committee about questions had and facility use. The location and space are in the heart of Seattle and will host an amazing event for CAWS 2027.

CAWS 2028 (Scotland) Crawford B.

Highlights:

• We had our committee meeting on the 5th of August and it was filled with great ideas, knowledge and enthusiasm.
• Our treasurer is still in the process of setting up the European bank account and this will allow us to receive the funds already raised so far for the CAWS 2028 Convention which are currently in The Scottish area bank account to allow us to pay for anything that is required in the interim.
• We have had our second run of t-shirts sold at the Scottish area convention which took place the middle of July. Both styles of t-shirts will be for sale at conference as well as some one-off items.
• We had our first “in person” meeting on Saturday the 19^th of July in Glasgow during the Scottish Area Convention. This was very well attended and a lot of interest for the vacant positions was shown.
• We are in the process of arranging our first fundraising event and this will take the form of a

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“white collar boxing event

• We have voted in the name and the CAWS2028 convention will be called “FREEDOM”. The artwork and logo is also close to completion and once voted on, it will be submitted for ratification.
• The Steering committee chairs have had a great response in resumes for their respective sub committees from all over the European region and after ratifying more chair positions, we now have 20 general committee chairs in place.
• Our hotel liaison has had a good response from one of the hotels on the bid document and we are looking to expand the convention over 2 hotels and a theater auditorium which are situated next door to each other in Glasgow city Centre. This is looking to be very cost effective and be of great benefit to all attendees as well as potentially creating maximum revenue overall.
• We are excited to announce that we are in the process of designing and registering a tartan that will belong exclusively to Cocaine Anonymous. More updates will follow on this but we would like to thank the WSOB and the trustees for their involvement in the process.

OFFICE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Director of Operations- Tai B.

Highlights:

Office Update:

• I continue to meet and/or communicate with the WSOB Chair, WSO Trustee, WST and paid vendors when necessary. Communication with Bookkeeper weekly.
• TC Meeting schedule to be determined.
• CRM ADHOC, meeting continue to be scheduled every Friday, Shopify 90%complete, QBO still working on, then Hubspot.
• ADHOC Delegate Mailing to be scheduled, WSOT
• WSOB Chairperson master checklist revisions and updates weekly.
• Branding Guide Update, Publication Guidelines Update, Intellectual Property (Discussion)
• Revised Royalty Agreement in process. A lot of confusion and discussion with regions., copyright have begun to be completed. Still a lot of reorganization happening. Meeting with ERT and MERT with areas continue.
• Budget Completed 8/13/2025
• Annual Reviews for Staff Complete.

Merchandise:

• UK Distribution communications going well. Next order of 50K units first week of September. Quality Control procedures being implemented.
• Recalling The Early Days of C.A., vendor hired and cost for changes and printing will be close to 2K. POINT 16 to be completed. Ad hoc Committee has begun. Point 17.
• Banner solution found and ongoing purchases.
• Swedish Chips, working on new molds. English years have moved to 50

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• Added Multi Language stickers and magnets to inventory.
• Want to discuss next move with more merchandise after October.

Translation

• Meeting to be determined.
• Swedish Chip design (LOGO), approved and will be revised. Sent to Vendor for new Key tags order AFTER remaindering chips have been purchased.
• Agreement by Sweden to purchase all key tags in stock was not done. Have an open balance.
• Logo Finder created. https://cawscit.github.io/logo-finder/, 18 approved logos! Please share with in your WSC Committees so registered trademarking’s are reflected accurately.
• Tradition 11 language request to international language sent. -20250331, have French, Danish. DAL to help. NEED ALL MEETING TRANSLATION FORMATS- also Pamphlets and Books) Denmark asked to stop printing current books.
• Translation Files NEED to be given to WSO, (Copyright Material is WSO Owned and need WST and WSOT to communicate this to MERT, PNRT and ERT) Request was made.

WSOB CHAIR REPORT

Chair – Randy G.

Highlights:

• Attended 2025 CAWS Conference Committee Monthly meeting, 2025 World Convention Committee
• Attended 2025 CAWS Conference Committee Monthly meeting. I spend time every week at the WSO office.
• Jonathan and I have also met once a week with Tai to go over finances, sign checks and discuss the implementation progress of our new platforms.
• I also participate in a Chair-to-Chair call with Barry at least once a month.
• Being in Seattle facilitating a retreat on the weekend of the board meeting has given you all the opportunity to give the Vice Chair, Yves a very hard time as the chair for Saturday’s meeting. LOL – I’m confident in Yves and thank you for stepping up.
• With the awkward scenario of coming on to the position of WSOB Chair at a conference and then participating in an annual employee review just a short time after, I moved up the review dates to August so that any potential outgoing chair would be doing the review based on their experience and not another’s opinion. The staff has been amazing and productivity has never been better. I look forward to the results of this effort over the next couple weeks.
• Tai, Joni, Yves and I have been extremely active in getting this book, Recalling the Early Days of C.A. across the finish line. And with all the efforts of so many, the book is nearing completion. Tai worked tirelessly on trying to get it done in time for Conference, but unfortunately the wheels of the bus didn’t quite move fast enough. It definitely wasn’t from the lack of effort. We look forward to announcing the roll out date at Conference.

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• Tai, Dawn, Jonathan and myself sat down for a couple of hours over the budget for the fellowship. What a great meeting it was as we believe it may be the first time that a group like ours truly went through line items with real supportive data from our history to date. I believe it will truly benefit our fellowship in the presentation of accurate information.
• I look forward to seeing you at Conference.

VICE-CHAIR REPORT – Yves W.

Highlights:

On-going:

• I have updated the summary of our motions log (2025 WSOB MOTIONS LOG.xlsx).
• We did receive 3 new referrals, log updated (2024-25 WSOB REFERRAL.xlsx)

NewsGram:

• The Q32025 is now in the hands of the WSBT for their approval. The theme for the Q42025 Edition is “Do you believe in a higher power” and the deadline is September 30, 2025

CAWS2025 Conference:

• I worked with Kim to complete our Conference report by adding all of our referral’s status. We now have only 3 referrals still In Committee because we received them last week. Our submission to the Conference is available in our repository, under 08-2025/CAWS2025 Conference

Referrals:

• We did receive a resume of the opened referrals assigned to WSOB, which state that we have 34 open referrals. At the last Conference we didn’t have any referral on our plate. As of today, we have 12. All the other ones on their list have been cleared during CAWS2023 Conference.

REFERRALS:

NEW REFERRALS RECEIVED:

WSOB 2025-09 pre-Conf 2025

Larissa O. Manitoba Area

While reviewing the pamphlets on ca.org, I noticed that the current layout could benefit from a more visually appealing design. I’d like to suggest updating the presentation, similar to the approach used by CMA (link attached for reference). Specifically, replacing the plain text pages with pamphlet images would create a more engaging and user-friendly experience. With the website being updated I believe this would be an ideal time to look at making this change.

Additionally, I recommend standardizing the pamphlets in black and white. A clean, minimal design not only enhances readability but would also reduce printing costs for Areas — particularly once Print on Demand is implemented.

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https://www.crystalmeth.org/download/what-is-the-seventh-tradition/?wpdmdl=2642&refresh=688922ca4454e1753817802.

LCF-WSOB 2025-10 pre-Conf 2025

Ginger L. AZ ASC

Consider making the font bigger on the formats/readings…some of  us are  getting  old.  :0)

LCF-WSOB 2025-11 pre-Conf 2025

Eric H. British Columbia Area

I was wondering if the process of getting gall CA approved literature into an audiobook format as been started or explored.

TREASURER – Jonathan H.

Highlights:

Activities and duties performed this quarter:

• General
  • Been in communication with the DOO, Asst. Manager, WSO Chair, Bookkeeper, WST and WSOT throughout the last month.
• 2025 Convention
  • Funds transfer from existing local Arizona account to CAWSO account complete.
  • Final hotel bill complete.
  • Final payments to hotel issued.
  • Treasurer completed financials and initial update in CAWSO financials.
• Finance Committee
  • June meeting completed.
  • July, and August meetings cancelled
  • New Proposed Amended 2025 and Proposed 2026 budgets have been created and sent for SR14.
  • Will work with Finance Committee Chair to get SR14 resent as it was not included in the initial release.
    • This had been done
    • Also proved an updated version to place in box for Conference
• Office
  • Have been signing check runs and process has been going smoothly.
  • Have made myself available for Tai and Dawn for any help needed.
• QuickBooks
  • Chase International account has been added.
  • Have determined a mix of “fresh start” and pulling existing data is appropriate. This will be finalized as the links between CRM and Online Store are established

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Will finalize last review prior to transfer to QB Online

• QuickBooks Online
  • Accountant version sync had been completed. Need to work on API integration for what will sync between HubSpot and QBO
    • Will be purchasing 4 companies to be used as the 4 conventions
    • Accountant version will oversee all sub companies and possibly main company
• Prudent Reserve and Disaster Recovery Policy
  • Will draft final version of separate policies and send to both Boards for approval.
  • Will be submitted prior to July WSOB meeting for approval.
    • Not done – Goal is now August
• GiveButter
  • Created new GiveButter campaign for 7^th Tradition
  • This has been placed on the website for future donations.
• Freedom Fund
  • GiveButter has been added as the main donation platform in the website.
  • 2025 Collected
• Reconciliation
  • 100050 Chase Main Operating – 7/31/25
  • 100051 Chase Prudent Reserve – 6/30/25
  • 100052 Chase Publication Fund – 6/31/25
  • 100053 Chase Petty Cash – 6/30/25
  • 100054 Chase Conv 2025 – 7/31/25
  • 100055 Chase Conv 2026 – 7/31/25
  • 100056 Chase Conv 2027 – 7/31/25
  • 100057 Chase Conv 2028 – 7/31/25
  • 100058 Chase International – N/A (Created)
  • 100120 International HSBC – 7/17/25
  • 200104 Chase Visa – 6/30/25
  • 100096 BofA Operating – 7/31/25
  • 100099 BofA Old Operating – 7/31/25
  • 100114 BofA Petty Cash – 7/31/25
  • 200105 BofA Mastercard – 6/10/25
  • Closed Accounts
    • 100097 Convention 2024 – 4/30/25
    • 100098 Convention 2025 – 4/30/25
    • 100110 Convention 2026 – 4/30/25
    • 100113 Convention 2027 – 4/30/25
    • 100118 BofA Publication Fund – 4/30/25
    • 100119 BofA Prudent Reserve – 4/30/25

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• Large Outstanding
  • Finalize convention financials
  • Finalize Prudent Reserve Policy
  • Bank To Do Items
    • Make final transfer to Chase (Operating, old operating, petty cash)
    • Confirm how international account can be used in UK and Europe – awaiting confirmation of activation on multiple currencies
    • Determine best option for international account for Scotland Convention use.
    • Close all remining BofA accounts
  • Get consolidated financials for QB
  • GiveButter Traction
    • Competition with conference committees or areas
    • Have Areas add GiveButter to their local websites
    • Video of what World Office does to help Areas donate / attend local area meetings
• Financials Included:
• CAWSO
  • Income Statement
    • YTD through 7/31/25
    • YTD through 8/15/25
  • Balance Sheet
    • YTD through 7/31/25
    • YTD through 8/15/25
  • Statement of Cash Flows
    • YTD through 7/31/25
    • YTD through 8/15/25
  • Budget vs Actuals
    • YTD through 7/31/25
    • YTD through 8/15/25

Motions

ON HOLD – Will submit motion to update chart of accounts and products and services for future QB use which includes new accounts the printer lease.

Motion to use HSBC account for the 2028 Scottland Convention. Passed Unanimously.

Motion to transfer the following funds from Convention 2025 Account 9589:

• Transfer $2,836.76 to Publication Fund Account 9563 to increase balance to $25,000.
• Transfer $ 123,567.19 to Prudent Reserve Account 9555 to increase balance to $300,000. 00
• Transfer $75,000 to Emergency Reserve Account (upon Account Opening) to increase balance to $75,000.
• Transfer remaining balance to Main Operating Account.
• motion, seconded. passed unanimously.

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• Motion to approve Prudent Reserve Policy as is currently, Seconded. Passed unanimously.
• Motion to approve Emergency Funds Policy as currently, Seconded. Passed unanimously.
• Motion to open Emergency Fund Account at Chase Bk, Seconded. Passed Unanimously.

Respectfully submitted,

Jonathan Havens

WSOB Treasurer

SECRETARY’S REPORT- Kimberley C

Highlights:

• Worked with Yves on preparing Conference Report.
• Still sorting out the technical side of things. Encountering a few challenges, but much better than previously.
• I did not attend the Archives Committee meeting this month as I was in Vancouver that weekend. However, I understand that Morten is on with Archives and I will be attending H&I

Director of Conv & Conf – Jesse G.

Highlights:

• CAWS 2025 – Arizona
  • Still need more pass it ons
• WSC Conference 2025 – DFW – 27-AUG-2025 to 31-AUG-2025
  • Contracts for 2025 are finalized; have fully executed copies.
  • Addendum signed
  • Payment for 30% made plus for rooms for TNC, WSBT, WSOB, TEC
• CAWS 2026 – Florida
  • Chair
    • Working on budget
    • Timeline on track
  • Treasurer
    • Final Budge received on 8/2/2025 and sent to WS finance committee chair
    • Fundraising
      • Fundraising events are still being scheduled and held 6 events and auctions yet to take place

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• • • Memorabilia working on getting quotes from vendors
• Registration
  • Bismarck – 10, Sabal – 37, Royal – 62 Total = 109
  • 1583 room nights
  • Working on logistics for transportation, decorations, and hospitality items
• Program
  • Program and onsite events are filling in as members are reaching out to facilitate workshops, 8 total thus far.
  • A PI Roadshow is planned, and free entertainment events ideas are being considered.
  • No definite on Co-Anon presence yet, we’re hoping to learn about any commitment from them soon.
  • speaker slate
    • waiting on approval of new budget from Conference before sending out letters to speakers

• WSC Conference 2026/2027
  • 2026/2027 contracts fully executed
  • Have discussed with Robyn the need to reassess room nights due to the inconsistencies of room nights over the last 3 years; have emailed hotel to accurate nights for 2023, 2024
• CAWS 2027 – Washington State
  • Hotel Liaison
    • 26 19 committee members attended a walk-through of hotel to view event space to ask questions and get clarification to determine to maximize use of event space.
  • Treasurer
    • Donations received from District 3 in Washington State
    • Still planning fundraising events
  • Preliminary budget received on prior to 8/1/2025 and sent to WS Finance Chair
  • Is not having monthly steering and general committee meetings beginning 8.25.25

• CAWS 2028 – Scotland Area
  • Chair
    • Planning a “white collar boxing event as a fundraiser.”
    • We have 20 subcommittee chairs in place

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• • • Still looking into hotels and considering a convention center
  • Treasurer
    • Planning a white-collar boxing event
  • Hotel liaison
    • No hotel as of this time
    • Considering a conference center option in lieu of hotel

 

• WSC Conference Committee (WSCCfC)
• all referrals to date addressed
• 196 credentialed
• 156 Registered

 

• WSC Convention Committee (WSCCvC)
  • Answering new referrals
  • Discussed pre-conference report and final details for conference.

 

• Bid Vetting Committee
  • Will pick new chair for the bid vetting committee at conference 2025.

• RFP Committee
  • To commence in Oct of 2025.

ILAS,

Jesse G

DIRECTOR AT LARGE – Jason S.

Highlights:

Attended

Regular WSOB meetings, WSC IT App Adhoc, CRM meetings

Ad HOC Tech & Website Committee

• Web: Met with Joe he needs a copy of our current website. He now has the credentials.
• He also wanted access to hubspot which was provided. Wants to pull the content from our existing website to get us MUCH closer to a full / new website

CRM:

• we met once or twice. Dawn and Kaleb got us to the finish line on the new web store.

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CRM-Shopify-QBO Meeting held

• Shopify is working
• We need more HS training.
• Need a self registration form for conference attendees
• Hoping to meet with Marco from HS training next week
• We have asked friends and family to submit orders. It appears to be working fine.
• North American orders are ready to go.
• Need to find out next steps for UK orders.
• Expecting a good demo of the new website will be ready for presentation.

DIRECTOR AT LARGE – Wesley B.

Highlights:

Meetings

• Regular WSOB meeting.
• European PI
• North American PI
• WSC PI Committee
• ANRC Planning Committee

PI Updates

• Committee Opening Report is ready. Finalized responses to active referrals.
• European PI in a bit of a lull. Expect to reenergize after conference
• North American PI continues to work on outreach to local Areas to better coordinate PI efforts.
• PI Committee discussed conference, plans for leadership transition, and planning for PI Summits. Also came up with an idea for a “fact sheet” post conference, that would provide each committee with budget info, tech tools and resources available, other available services and contact info for office/trustees, etc.

LTP Working Groups

• Region discussion is at a very early stage – just high-level thoughts on thinking broadly about where the fellowship is headed and how best to support regions/countries
• Two Year Conference – 3 groups working on different possible approaches, pro and con. Not clear what if any recommendation might be pyt forward.

ANRC

• Attended mainly as an observer; there is some debate about division of funds post regional convention, as this has not been formally addressed and post-convention funds have been handled slightly differently by each hosting Area. Idea for a working group to follow up.

WSOB

• Continued search for handbook builder provider online. Pr5oviders have been slow but there are a couple of online services that should be easy to get started without protracted negotiation.
• Worked with Board on referral responses

It has been another relatively quiet month.

In Love and Service, Wesley B

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DIRECTOR AT LARGE – Morton V.

Highlights:

I am clearly still in a learning process about how and what a Director At Large does in CA.

Translation:

• There have been lots of issues in the non-speaking English regions with translations, royalties and license agreements and with wrong use of our logo.
• I been helping our DOO and we had a meeting with the Danish area to clarify translations guidelines and to agree of the royalties the Danish area owed CAWSO for the printing of 200 copies of “A Quite Peace “
• Royalties and license agreements has been signed, owed money to CAWSO is paid and the logo has been changed at the Danish websites.
• I have also gone through all of our area’s websites and found wrong use of our logo in many of them. This has been brought to the translation committees’ attention and has already been addressed to the Mainland European Region and is something i will follow up on in the near future.
• Together with our DOO we tested the new web shop – Shop.ca.org

TRUSTEE REPORTS

WST TRUSTEE – Joni E.

Highlights:

CAWS Corporate Filing Status

• The 2019 and 2020 CAWS tax returns have been completed and submitted to the IRS and CA FTB.
• We are now in the process of filing with the Attorney General for the Registry of Charities and Fundraisers.
• We continue to work with the Corporate Legal firm to ensure all AZ filings are complete and to ensure the filings to reinstate the CA entity are proper.
• A decision has been made to keep the entity name of Cocaine Anonymous World Services, as registered with the State of CA. Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc. does not and has never existed.
• It is important that we get this info out to the fellowship as Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc. has been used throughout our literature, guidelines, etc. and it must be corrected.
• To confirm, the correct name of the CAWS entity is Cocaine Anonymous World Services NOT Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc.

TNC/Contract Approval

No activity this month.

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Releases for Original Works and Speaker Recordings

• The WSBT reviewed and approved a revised version of the Original Works Release and a new release for Speaker Recordings. I have added the new versions to the OneDrive folder for your review.

WSCIT Speaker Recording Approval Process

• The Speaker Approval Process and Media Platform procedures have been returned to the WSCIT Speaker Approval Subcommittee and have been added to the WSCIT as motions to be voted on by Conference. I have added the Speaker Submission Process and Media Platform Guidelines to the OneDrive folder for information.

WSOB Translation Committee

• The translation process is moving along although there have been many hurdles. I have added to the WSOB OneDrive the C.A. Translation Policy for review.
• To get the process moving, it is important that each area requesting a translation complete a Copyright Agreement.
• The Licensing and Royalty Agreements have been revised and they are ready to go out to the areas requesting translations or licensing/royalty agreements.
• We’ve had several areas submit signed copyright agreements and license/royalty agreements. It has been very time-consuming getting the information out to the Fellowship and we now have a process for submission, approval, and distribution of materials that allows us to accurately track the activity and ensure license & royalty fees are collected.

Other Activities

• Attended various LTP project meetings
• Communicated regularly with the DOO regarding license agreements, translation committee next steps, corporate filing issues

ILAS

Joni E.

World Service Trustee

WSOT TRUSTEE – Robert B.

Highlights:

Summary of General Activities:

• As WSBT Asst. Secretary; Worked with WSBT Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary to Finalize and Submit the WSBT 2025 Conference Report

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• Worked with DOO, DOCAC, and WST To Finalize Conference Hotel Room Requirements; all Invoices for Single Supplements have been issued Received New WSBT Chase Debit Cards. Will distribute at Conference 2025
• Participated in Online Business for WSBT and WSOB as Required
• Communication with WSO Chair, WSO DOO, and other WSOB Members as Required

WSC S&B Committee (Lead Trustee):

• No Meetings
• Next Meeting at 2025 Conference

WSC Archives Committee (2nd Trustee):

• Missed Meeting on 02-AUG2025
• Next Meeting at 2025 Conference

WSBT Finance Sub-Committee (Lead Trustee):

• Prepared Full financial reporting for presentation at WSBT Q3 Meeting
• Preparing revised WSBT Budget for Conference 2025 (2025 Revised and 2026)

Trustee Negotiating Committee (Member):

• No Activity

I would like everyone to know that it has been an absolute honor and privilege to serve on the WSOB. It is quite the bittersweet moment to realize that this will be my last WSOB meeting. The friendships and camaraderie that I have been blessed with through this journey, much like everything else in my sobriety, is so much more than I could have ever imagined. I have had the opportunity to serve with some absolutely amazing people and I will always look back on this time with honor and admiration. That being said; 5.5 years is long enough and its time for others to take the helm. I make jokes about changing my phone number, but its all an act to sound tough. Please do not ever hesitate to contact me if there is anything I can ever help with. I will see you all at Conference.

NEW BUSINESS

• Discussion to distribute payout to Arizona CA as per convention committee guidelines; host Area financially met budget.

MOTIONS

SPENDING COMMITTEE

• MONTHLY MEETING MOTIONS

Motion to approve CR 2026-030 for pavilion rental for fundraiser, seconded. Passed unanimously.

Motion to distribute $3500 payment to CA Arizona as per Convention Committee guidelines, seconded. Passed unanimously.

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ONLINE MOTIONS

MONTHLY MEETING

ONLINE MOTION

Motion to purchase 1500 copies of recalling the Early Days of C.A. in softcover and 100 copies in hardcover with special print numbering. seconded. Passed.

Motion to approve 2025 after Conference Report, seconded. Passed.

Motion to approve communication to member, seconded. Passed.

REFERRALS

Referral Response:

WSOB 2025-08 pre-Conf 2025 Assigned to Tai B. No Action Taken Ginger L. AZ ASC

Please consider adding the formats and the typical readings for meetings under the “literature” drop down to make it easier to find.

We sincerely appreciate your referral. As always, CAWSO remains committed to fulfilling our main purpose:

“The World Service Office (WSO) is the main contact and distribution point of C.A. Its main purpose is to maintain contact with members, Groups, Districts, and Areas. Contact is sustained through correspondence, newsletters, e-mail, the website www.ca.org, and representatives within our service structure.” — C.A. World Service Manual, Pg. 66

In alignment with this purpose, we are currently implementing a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and launching a redesigned version of CA.org. These improvements are aimed at enhancing our ability to serve our members more efficiently and effectively and with implementation this referral will be addressed.

WSOB 2025-03 pre-Conf 2025 Assigned to Tai B. & Robert B. No Action Taken

Nadz L. C.A. Ireland

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One of our Area meetings reached out to the WSO to request a starter kit. This was passed back on to our delegates via the trustee, with the assumption that it will not be fulfilled. My referral is to specify on the Starter Kit page(https://ca.org/contact-cawso/request-more-info-starter-kit/) which areas/countries can avail of the starter pack from the WSO.

We appreciate your referral and we hope this explains the external process between the WSO, Regional Trustees and Requestor.

Starter Kit Request Process Overview

When a starter kit request is received at the office, an email is sent to the requester outlining the process and estimated timeline for approval and delivery. This communication includes the Regional Trustees, the WSOB Chairperson, and the WSO Trustee as CC recipients. Roles and Responsibilities:

Regional Trustees are responsible for contacting the local area or area delegate to determine if assistance is needed.

If no assistance is required, the local area fulfills the request.

If assistance is needed, the WSO will send the starter kit directly.

Starter Kit Contents: Each kit includes:

• A minimal supply of chips
• A copy of the NewsGram
• Laminated meeting formats
• Pamphlets

This process has been in place and proven effective since 2021; and is open to all new meetings in all Regions of Cocaine Anonymous. Regional Trustees use this information for reporting and to support communication with the fellowship regarding regional growth. Maintaining clear and timely communication with new members is essential to fostering engagement and support. We appreciate your referral, and we hope this explains the external process between the WSO, Regional Trustees and Requestor.

WSOB 2025-03 pre-Conf 2025 Assigned to Tai B. & Robert B.

Nadz L. C.A. Ireland

One of our Area meetings reached out to the WSO to request a starter kit. This was passed back on to our delegates via the trustee, with the assumption that it will not be fulfilled. My referral is to specify on the Starter Kit page(https://ca.org/contact-cawso/request-more-info-starter-kit/) which areas/countries can avail of the starter pack from the WSO.

LCF-WSOB 2024-06 pre-Conf 2024 CLOSED

Gillian M. R.

Southern Alberta area

I would like to see a milestones celebration card (birthday card) available for purchase from the chips n literature order form. Some of us are not so savvy on the computer and birthday cards from stores have gotten really expensive. Something simple, but able to be purchased along with chips, pamphlets, medallions and books. Something with the CA logo and a space for the number of years a person is celebrating. I have seen them in other 12 step programs. I have attached a rough idea for a card. I am

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not that good with publisher. I couldn’t get the Cocaine Anonymous inside the chips inner circle on the metal coin on page 2 of my suggestion. I am sure someone with a background in graphics could fix it or whip one up. Thank you for considering my request.

On behalf of the WSOB, we sincerely thank you for your referral regarding a celebratory card featuring Cocaine Anonymous Licensed and Trademark material to be added to the CAWSO, Inc. shop. This item(s) is currently available in the shop on the CA.org website. We welcome any further ideas you may have. Thank you once again for your referral.

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