Online Recovery Area (ORA)
The Cocaine Anonyous Online Recovery Area was started on September 3, 2025 with (3) three founding Online Groups: 12 Steps in 4 Hours last Sunday of the month workshop group (Kimia G.), T.G.I.F. & the Midnight Rounders (Cameron F.) – a Friday midnight group and the C.A. Service Sponsorship Group (Larissa W.) which meets every second Saturday of the month on Traditions and Concepts, History of C.A slide shows and Jeopardy Games., and How to Carry the Message NOT the Wreckage Speaker trainings.
The Online Recovery Area of C.A. has one service mandate and that is to attract suffering addicts surfing the web looking for recovery solutions, and once finding our website, be immediately directed to joining an online meeting to get the C.A. 12 Steps of Recovery solution to what ails them.
The Online Recovery Area sought ratification as a recognized Online (Virtual) Area at the 2026 World Conference. But, on September 3, 2026, two C.A. Online Areas, the Online GB Area and the Online Recovery Area seeking recognition by the Conference were, for the first time in Cocaine Anonymous’ 44 year history of Areas petitioning for ratification, were denied by the World Service Conference.
ORA Petition for Ratification Memes
The creation of online areas and the service committees that serve the online member groups helps to remove any impediments that suffering addicts may encounter when trying to find the recovery they seek and maximizes C.A. member participation. Barriers to 12 Step recovery that C.A. online meetings can resolve or overcome include, but are not … Read more
