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San Francisco Bay Area Intergroup

The San Francisco Bay Area Intergroup of SAA (BAISAA) manages the business of SAA in the San Francisco Bay Area. BAISAA has four primary areas of responsibility:

1. To help SAA groups carry the SAA message to the addict who still suffers.
2. To provide shared and coordinated services and resources to individual members and the member SAA groups, e.g. the website, telephone line, and printed meeting lists.
3. To allow for the effective use of BAISAA funds.
4. To help disseminate information within the local SAA organization and to coordinate outreach and public information for SAA in the San Francisco Bay Area.

There are currently about 50 meetings within the geographic area served by BAISAA. Each group may elect its own Intergroup representative. These members provide input to Intergroup on the matters listed above and relay relevant information back to the groups they represent.

Monthly Intergroup Meeting

BAISAA currently meets the second Saturday of every month from 11:15 AM to 12:45 PM on Zoom. To request access to the meeting, please send an email to info@bayareasaa.org. Any SAA member interested in the business of SAA may attend this meeting. If a matter is put to the group for a vote, these visitors may participate in the discussions, but will not be allowed to participate in the voting process. Sobriety requirements are set by member groups; BAISAA recommends six months of membership in SAA and three months of abstinence from inner circle behaviors.

Committees

BAISAA members participate in committees, where much of the work of Intergroup is done. Such committees include:

• Outreach — Outreach activities include: getting our basic text, Sex Addicts Anonymous, into Bay Area libraries; communication with health care professionals in the Bay Area; speaking engagements to educate others about our work (e.g. the Johns School), and others.
• Website — Maintaining and updating the BAISAA website as a repository of information of interest to the local community and potential new members.
• Telephone — Maintaining a hotline for people to get information about our program.
• Finance — Accounting for fellowship funds.
• Meeting List — Providing updated meeting lists to members, meetings and anyone who requests them.

Anyone may participate in these committees whether an Intergroup rep or not.

A Message from an Intergroup Member

I feel grateful that I can make contributions utilizing skills I don't usually use in my day to day work life. Besides detailed things such as working with the website, I enjoy being creative in using clipart whenever I get the chance. I like making announcements at meetings about what is going on with Intergroup and our program as a whole. I am making new friends, which is perhaps the best part.
 – LJ, 2011

Exploring Inclusion and Diversity in SAA January 29th at 8 AM PST

This will be a half day event to explore and celebrate diversity and inclusion in SAA. The day will include speaker meetings, a workshop, discussion in breakout rooms and time for reflection. To get involved and offer service at this event or to find out more information, including the PASSWORD, contact: idc@saa-recovery.org.
4-8.30pm UTC 10 am-2.30pm CT.
Meeting ID: 809 198 3822.

Bay Area SAA & COSA Quarterly Speakers Meeting

The first quarterly Speakers Meeting for SAA & COSA of this year will be Saturday, February 5th at 5:30 PST! We have two wonderful speakers, Bennett D (SAA) from Oakland and Brian T (COSA) from the Bay Area who will share their experience, strength and hope with us.
Join Meeting here
Meeting ID: 837 2934 5573
Contact for more info Michael N. at MPN121@gmail.com

"Working the Steps"

Workshop starts on zoom Saturday January 8, 2022 at 7:15-8:15am P.S.T. Here is the invite: https://bit.ly/2022SAAWorkshopInvite

SAA Outreach

SAA has 2140 meetings in over 80 official SAA areas throughout the world. Help carry the message FURTHER to ALL Sex Addicts that still suffer.

The Inclusion and Diversity Committee (IDC) helps deepen our understanding of inclusion, diversity and recovery in our fellowship.

Serve our fellowship with your skills. • Current talents needed:
◦ Translating literature into Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, and Hindi. And other major languages needed, Farsi, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Filipino/Tagalog
◦ Basic video editing and Zoom proficiency for upcoming events.

To get involved, contact Fiona at twelvestepsrule@gmail.com or Rey at rey_g@sputnik57.com.
Ask to be added to the IDC email list at info@saa-recovery.org.

Publishing Announcements

Call (415) 456-1063 or send email to info@bayareasaa.org to publish fellowship news and announcements here.