The Outreach committee, which carries the SCA message to those outside the fellowship, will hold a telephone conference call on Saturday, November 16 at 3:00 Eastern/12:00 Pacific.

If you participate in outreach at the ISO, intergroup or meeting level, or are just interested in this service, please do participate. Information has been sent to the SCA-ISO-OUTREACH list on how to join the call.

John S., ISO Chair, and Russell P., Outreach Committee Chair, have provided the following agenda.

1. Call to order
2. Brief Comment From ISO Chair
3. Brief Introduction from ISO Outreach Chair 
4. Getting to know the committee and in what capacity of service that is provided. 
5. Action Items from the 2013 ISO Meeting
6. What I would like to see for the outreach committee
7. Next proposed outreach conference call 01/18/14

Please find below the latest edition of the above.

November 2013 Newsletter draft 2.pdf

If you have a Twitter account and want a recovery-based “feed”, follow @all12steps. This includes postings from the SCAnner and our Calendar. For the sake of anonymity, it also includes various other 12 Step groups and inspirational retweets. Try it, you may like it.

SCA New York will hold its annual holiday show and party on Saturday, December 7th at 8:00 p.m.  It will be held at P.S. 11, 320 W. 20th Street in Manhattan.

For more info and updates, please visit the SCA New York website.

The Los Angeles Intergroup 12th Step Committee meets quarterly to carry the message to the sexual compulsive who still suffers. The core members are the coordinators for Hospitals, Institutions & Professionals (HIP); Legal Outreach; Public Information; and Workshops. The rest of the committee is made up of other interested SCA members.

As HIP Coordinator (Hospitals, Institutions & Professionals), I participated in the quarterly 12th Step Committee meeting on October 12th. We discussed strategies for getting SCA outreach materials into local LGBT Pride Festivals by putting our materials at a booth run by a relevant institution such as the Sexual Recovery Institute, the Center for Sexual Health, or Del Amo Hospital. Anyone with connections to one of these or a similar institution with a booth at Pride should let me know so we can plan to follow up. (scalosangeles.org/contact)

Our other current HIP project is to put together a mailing to about 100 local mental health facilities. Several volunteers have started looking up addresses to make a mailing database. We plan to mail a batch of letters at the next quarterly 12th Step Committee meeting tentatively scheduled for Saturday, January 11th at 11am at Plummer Park, West Hollywood, California.

Zoe, LA Intergroup

The fifth annual retreat will be held at the Marianist Center on November 15th – 17th, 2013. Payment is due by Nov. 1. 

Special Guest: 

Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S, is a UCLA MSW graduate and personal trainee of Dr. Patrick Carnes. He founded The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles in 1995. He is author of Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men, and co-author with Dr. Jennifer Schneider of both Untangling the Web: Sex, Porn, and Fantasy Obsession in the Internet Age and the upcoming 2013 release, Closer Together, Further Apart: The Effect of Technology and the Internet on Sex, Intimacy and Relationships, along with numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters.

Read the brochure for more information. 

The SCA-DC Annual Fall retreat will be held October 11-13, 2013, at the historic Claymont Mansion in Charlestown, WV. The retreat begins with dinner on Friday and ends mid-day on Sunday. The weekend is full of meetings, workshops, guest speakers, hiking, fellowship, yoga, relaxation and great food. The retreat is a great place for SCA members to fellowship with other members and to share their experience, strength and hope.

The registration brochure for the Fall Retreat is now available. Feel free to print the brochure and mail your payment with the registration form to SCA. [Download Brochure]

Payments are due by Oct. 4. For further information, see http://www.sca-dc.org/events.html

“40 Fabulous & Fun” is the theme of an event in November to celebrate 40 years of SCA in Los Angeles. Mark your calendar and spread the word …

UPDATE: The celebration will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. Feel free to come early to help set up or to enjoy fellowship. While there will not be a request for a $20 donation, there will be a 7th Tradition collection.

WHEN: Nov. 9, 2013, 5-9 p.m.

WHERE: Plummer Park, Great Hall, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90046

COST: $20 donation

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Meeting
• Guest Speaker
• Panel with 20 years Experience, Strength and Hop
• A question-and-answer period
• Fabulous food/cake

Please download and distribute the flier.

I am pleased to announce that the Executive Committee, acting on behalf of ISO between annual face-to-face meetings, has voted Russell P. of Chicago into the Outreach Committee Chair service position.  Russell is currently serving as Chair of the Chicago Intergroup of SCA as well as having held other local service positions, so he is well suited to join the ISO Executive Committee to help us all carry the message to the addict who still suffers.  This action will be placed on the 2014 ISO agenda for affirmation by the delegates.  The Executive Committee will be working to support Russell as he moves into this position and will assist him in reaching out to current members of the Outreach Committee.  Please help me in welcoming Russell to ISO service.

 

In service,

John S.

ISO Chair

DASA, the French version of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, will be holding its seventh annual convention on Oct. 19-20 in Paris. It will offer workshops, speaker meetings, a cafeteria, a meditation space, and literature. While it will mostly be conducted in French, there will be one 90-minute meeting in English on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 4 pm. 

DASA, which offers meetings daily in French and has occasionally had English-language meetings, requests an admission fee of 15 euros for the conference. More information is at http://dasafrance.free.fr/