March 15, 2025
ON Region Assembly Meeting Minutes
Lisa B. Region Secretary taking minutes. Agenda found below.
Notes in blue indicate action items for the Treasurer
Notes in red indicate action items for the Delegate
Notes in green indicate action items for GSRs
Notes in orange indicate action items for the Secretary.
Notes in purple indicate action items for the Outreach Coordinator
Agenda
- Serenity Prayer: request to use ‘we’ in the Serenity Prayer from the Region Chair.
- A Prayer for Service from the June 2021 issue of the Serenity Connection:
God, guide me to serve, grant me to help with your love, humility, and wisdom. Do not let my character defects interfere with my service, that you may speak through me to be just a messenger of hope to the relative of the addict who still suffers.
- Motion to accept meeting minutes from the Feb2025 Meeting Minutes
- Treasurer’s Report
- Literature/ Website Report
- Narateen Report
- Outreach Report
- Delegate’s Report
- Update on GSR participation from Secretary
- Motion for Ontario Region to participate in the Western Regions Committee
“The Western Regions Committee is an inter-regional forum of Nar-Anon/Narateen. We are dedicated to creating educational materials, workshops, and an annual event each February. We aim to foster growth and collaboration in our global community. We are committed to providing valuable learning experiences that connect and inspire our diverse membership”
- Set the date for the next RSC meeting
Meeting opened at 10:02 am with Region Secretary taking minutes and the following in attendance:
Sue- Region Chair
Lisa B.- Secretary
Leena- Scarborough GSR and ON Region Delegate
Catherine- Owen Sound GSR
Laura- Oakville GSR and Alt. Delegate
Cindy- Hamilton/ Sunday GSR
Elaine- Alt GSR Barrie virtual
Jennie- Outreach Coordinator/ Burlington Alt. GSR
Lu- Region Website/ Literature Coordinator
Raye- NTPP
Victoria- Sudbury GSR
Janice- London GSR
Julie- Barrie Virtual GSR
Jullie T.- Burlington GSR
Monica- Guelph GSR
Lisa- Etobicoke Virtual GSR
Lionel- Windsor GSR
Lisa C.- Grimsby GSR
Sally- Windsor GSR
Regrets from Joe in Hamilton
Regrets from Shelley Serenity Sunday
14 GSRs in attendance, 18 registered, therefore 10 required for quorum.
- Meeting opened with the Region Chair reading the Serenity Prayer
- Lionel read the Prayer for Service
- Motion put forward by the Region Chair to accept the minutes, accepted by Janice and seconded by Lisa from Etobicoke.
7 GSRs voted to accept the minutes,
No opposed
4 abstained
The motion to accept the minutes has passed.
- There were lots of questions about the Treasurer’s report. The Treasurer was not present at the meeting to respond to the questions. Some of the questions were related to how figures were reached, others included specific language used.
Lisa C. motioned to review the minutes at the next RSC meeting when the Treasurer is present and can answer them.
Lionel seconds the motion
13 GSRs voted to accept
No one opposed
No one abstained
The motion has passed.
Treasurer will be present for the next RSC meeting and will respond to the questions the GSR and RSC members have about the presented Treasurers’ Report from the period of Dec 2024- February 2025.
- Literature/ Website Coordinator reports Literature sales for Jan/25- Feb/25 totalled $1927.83
Royalties $192.78
Taxes $250.61
It should be noted that literature sales were paused for 3 weeks during this time due to complications with the Treasurer account change over but all is back online now.
We are currently investigating whether we can get a Paypal account to assist with a 7th Tradition donation button on the website- stay tuned.
RSC are trying to move away from the use of personal accounts- again stay tuned.
- 10 facilitators available for Narateen meetings in Ontario.
Membership numbers are fairly low at the moment.
Facilitators updated information is required in June, please reach out to Raye the NTPP at ntpp@naranonontario.com if you have questions about what is required or how to submit.
*The Outreach Report will come after the Delegates report.
- WSC update- The Delegate submitted a pole in February/25: 11 replies- 10 replied yes
8 Regions responded to the CWT inquiry: our top 3 CWT were: 1. Communication 2. Growth 3. Service.
Motion tally sheets are due at the end of Mar/25. Presentation sheets and excel spreadsheets have been sent out to the membership to assist with motion comprehension and efficiency.
This year the WSC will allow observers. To observe there is no cost but you must register and will not be given an opportunity to speak or ask questions.
- An Outreach card has been put together by Jennie and Lu and the design was submitted for a vote by the membership. The purpose is to have a printed card to easily hand out which access current updated information on anything NarAnon Ontario related (ie. meeting dates/ times/locations etc).
The membership praised the idea and showed gratitude for the work put in. Lots of suggestions and comments on the design (ie. perhaps a bit wordy, suggestion to add the word addiction somewhere prominent, to add the phone number for our phone line etc.) The outreach coordinator was grateful for the suggestions and will reach out to the greater membership for further feedback and will submit an updated version at the next RSC meeting.
- The Secretary reached out to GSRs across the Region to explain expectations for GSR attendance and to make inquiries as to whether or not they can be persuaded to attend meetings in the future. She received ‘3 thank yous” and 1 explanation from as group as to their small membership but their desire to attend in the future.
Further work is required here to sus how and why so few attend and to work towards encouraging greater attendance in the future. There was a suggestion to make the responses to these queries anonymously, which will be explored. The Secretary will reach out to the greater membership to request ideas on how to approach the task to encouraging greater attendance at Regional meetings.
There is a request for GSRs to please then reach out to the Secretary directly at secretary@naranonontario.com with your responses/ suggestions.
- Before the vote took place, a question was posed as to how joining this committee would change or affect our Region and/or positions. The Region Chair noted that it wouldn’t at all. We will remain an independent Region, we will just in included into a collective of Regions who have joined forces to share information, strategies and ideas together encouraging smoother run Regions and greater assistance with tricky issues like sorting through the WSC motions for example.
Further questions included who can attend- anyone at anytime.
Anyone attending would report back to our Region after a meeting and the next RSC meeting. There was lots of interest from membership in attending.
Motion was made by the Region Chair
13 accepted
1 opposed
No one abstained
The motion was accepted, we will join the Western Regions Committee.
- The next RSC meeting was scheduled for May 10th at 10am.
Region Chair read out the Prayer for the Growth of our Fellowship
Meeting ended at 11:03am
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