What is NA World Services?
World services are those services that deal with the problems and needs of NA as a whole and that 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. Although all parts of our service structure affect and are affected by NA as a whole, only at this level do we find service bodies designed to deal with problems that involve our entire Fellowship.
-A Guide to World Services in Narcotics Anonymous
When we talk about NA World Services, or NAWS as it’s known for short, we are actually referring to the entire system of service at the world level. The components of World Services are the World Service Conference, which has two Co-facilitators; the Human Resource Panel; and the World Board, which oversees the activities of the Fellowship’s primary service center, the World Service Office; and of course, the regional and zonal delegates that serve as the primary contacts between NAWS and local NA communities.
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