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ADHOC Ad-Hoc
The purpose of an Adhoc Committee is to fulfill special functions outside the scope of the standing subcommittees.
ASC Area Service Committee
An ASC is made up of the N.A. Groups in a given Area. The GSRs (Group Service Representative) and alternate GSRs from each Group in an Area meet regularly together for a business meeting where issues are raised and discussed in order to better meet the needs of the groups in the Area. Each ASC elects its own officers: the chairperson, vice chairperson, secretary, treasurer, and regional committee members (RCMs). Frequently an ASC will have various subcommittees (such as a Hospitals and Institutions sub-committee or a convention-planning subcommittee) which are led by subcommittee leaders that are elected by the entire ASC.
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CAR Conference Agenda Report
Report that comes out every two years prior to the World Service Conference (WSC) and contains the business and spiritual issues that will be considered at the bienial WSC.
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FIPT Fellowship Intelectual Property Trust
NA-owned right to all NA Literature, logos, symbols, trademarks and copyrights.
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GLS Guide To Local Service
Handbook explaining the NA service structure, from the group level to the regional level.
GPRCNA Greater Philadelphia Regional Convention of NA
The Greater Philadelphia Regional Convention of NA Committee is to operate a convention that will create a collective demonstration of unity and a celebration of recovery.
GSR Group Service Representative
A meeting or groups's representative to the Area Service Committee (ASC).
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H&I Hospitals and Institutions
The subcommittee's main purpose is to carry the message of NA into various institutions such as rehabilitation facilities, drug detoxification centers, and prisons.
HRP Human Resource Panel
The Human Resource Panel facilitates an election/selection process that allows the World Services Conference to choose trusted servants based upon the principles of ability and experience, and help to allow members to be nominated from around the world without having to be present at the conference to receive due consideration. The HRP administers the world pool, which is the source for candidates that the HRP can select from to recommend for WSC elections for the World Board, for the WSC Co-Facilitators, and for the Human Resource Panel. The World Board can also draw members from the pool to serve on board committees or project workgroups.
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JAC Joint Administrative Committee
The purpose of the JAC is to increase the unity and communications between regional sub-committees.
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MARLCNA
Mid-Atlantic Regional Learning Convenference
MSC Metropolitan Service Committee
A metropolitan service committee may exist to administer a single set of coordinated NA subcommittees in a city that has more than one ASC, eliminating duplication of services and providing greater effectiveness in carrying the NA message.
M.O.W.A.M.O.S.F.B.T.S.P.
Meeting Opened With A Moment OF Silence Followed By The Serenity Prayer
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NAWS Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
World services are those services which deal with the needs of NA as a whole, and which NA offers to its members, its groups, and to society. The basic purposes of our world services are communication, coordination, information, and guidance. We provide these services so that our groups and members can more successfully carry the message of recovery, and so that our program of recovery can be made more available to addicts everywhere.
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PI Public Information
Part of NA (Subcommittee of ASC or RSC) devoted to carrying the NA Message to Non-Addicts such as Gov't or private agencies, the public media, community leaders, health professionals, and the community-at-large so addicts seeking recovery are sent to NA.
PR Public Relations
See Public Information
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RCM Regional Committee Member
Formerly the Area Service Representative (ASR) which is to the ASC what the GSR is to the group. The RCM represents, and carries the conscience of, the ASC at the regional level.
RD Regional Delegate
Formerly the Regional Service Representative (RSR) which is to the RSC what the GSR is to the group. The RCM represents, and carries the conscience of, the RSC at the Zonal and World level.
RSC Regional Service Committee
Regional service committees exist to pool the experience and resources of the areas and groups it serves. The RSC is composed of regional committee members (RCMs) elected by the region’s member-areas; these RCMs usually elect regional committee officers from among themselves. RSCs organize regional assemblies at which GSRs and RCMs discuss a wide range of service matters, including those likely to come before the World Service Conference, and may elect a regional delegate and alternate delegate to the WSC.
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WB World Board
The purpose of the World Board of Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. is to contribute to the continuation and growth of Narcotics Anonymous. The World Board manages all activities of world services including oversight of the operations of the fellowship’s primary service center, the World Service Office.
WSC World Service Conference
Unlike all other NA service bodies, the conference is not an entity; it is an event—the coming together. Every two years, regional delegates, the members of the World Board, and the executive director of the World Service Office meet to discuss questions of significance to the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous as a whole. The purpose of the WSC is to be supportive of the fellowship as a whole, and to define and take action according to the group conscience of Narcotics Anonymous.
WSO World Service Office
The purpose of the World Service Office, our main service center, is to carry out the directives of the World Service Conference in matters that relate to communications and information for the Fellowship of NA, its services, groups, and members. The World Service Office achieves this purpose by maintaining correspondence with NA groups and service committees, by printing and distributing WSC-approved literature, and by maintaining the archives and files of Narcotics Anonymous.
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Zonal Forum
Zonal forums are service-oriented sharing and/or business sessions that provide the means by which NA communities can communicate, cooperate, and grow with one another. Although not a part of NA’s formal decision-making system, world services and zonal forums interact in many ways.
