Support from the Virtual Region, and intergroup you affiliate with, can assist with:

1. Conflict Resolution: Intergroups can serve as a source or a service structure that may assist in resolving disagreements that individual meetings or members cannot resolve through their group-conscience or through their business meeting processes.
2. Disruptive Behavior: Support that can help address concerns about members who consistently disrupt meetings, ensuring the group can maintain its focus and function.
3. Member Support and Safety: Intergroups provide support in addressing situations where members face harassment, inappropriate solicitation to join outside organizations, or disruptions by intruders in a variety of virtual platforms. Intergroups assist in establishing best practices and protocols to ensure the safety and integrity of meetings.
4. Connection to Regions: Since regions often cannot maintain direct, ongoing contact with every meeting, intergroups serve as an important part of the service structure, providing localized support and ensuring that issues are brought to the region when necessary or for the right of appeal.
5. Conducting Group Inventories: Meetings find it effective to occasionally conduct an inventory for the renewal of the meeting or to address problems. Just as we find it necessary to conduct personal inventories, to clear away the wreckage of our past, or renew our recovery, this process is valuable to intergroups and meetings as well. The Virtual Region, and its twenty-two intergroups and three service boards, provide structure and training for renewal and for the inventory process.
6. Support by the Virtual Region and Virtual Region Intergroup Committees: The Virtual Region and Virtual Region Intergroup Committees design programs to support members of both affiliated and unaffiliated meetings in carrying the message. The intergroup structure and service board structure facilitate collective collaboration and provide training for meeting leaders and intergroup officers. The training is then made available to meetings and includes initiatives, such as Carrying the Message workshops to support the study of the Steps and Traditions, Unity with Diversity programs, outreach efforts, carry-the-message campaigns, newcomer open houses, training for sponsors, and Zoom security training

   Affiliation doesn’t just matter to your meeting—it matters to all of us. Joining a service body strengthens the Virtual Region as a whole, enhances our intergroups and service boards, and supports the recovery of every member. Together, we recover.