What Is UOAA?

UOAA is a national network for bowel and urinary diversion support groups in the United States. Its goal is to provide a nonprofit association that will serve to unify and strengthen its member support groups, which are organized for the benefit of people who have, or will have intestinal or urinary diversions and their caregivers.

Read the latest news from UOAA in the UOAA Update Newsletter.

UOAA’s Mission

• UOAA is an association of affiliated, nonprofit, support groups who are committed to the improvement of the quality of life of people who have, or will have, an intestinal or urinary diversion.
   
• It is dedicated to the provision of information, advocacy and service to, and for, its affiliated support groups, their members and the intestinal/urinary diversion community at large.
   
• It is organized to grow and develop while remaining independent and financially viable.

Membership in UOAA is open to any former UOA chapter or other nonprofit support group that chooses to affiliate with it.

UOAA publishes a quarterly magazine, The PHOENIX, that all interested individuals can subscribe to.

UOAA has a IRS 501(c)(3) charity status that its affiliated support groups can use as an umbrella.

UOAA’s Management Board of Directors consists of the following:

	President:		Ken Aukett, New Jersey
	President-elect:		Kristin Knipp, Ohio
	Vice President:		Bob Baker, Connecticut
	Secretary:		Vacant – election being held
	Treasurer:		Dave Rudzin, Illinois
	Director:		LeeAnn Barcus, Missouri
	Director:		Charlie Grotevant, Illinois
	Director:		Lynne Kramer, Pennsylvania
	Director:		Steve Strizic, Washington

UOAA’s Board of Trustees includes:

	Chair:		Ron Titlebaum, Massachusetts
	Member:		George Salamy, New Jersey
	Member:		Sherry Lessard, Oregon

UOAA’s Organizing Steering Committee consisted of the following individuals in 2005 and 2006:

	President:		Ken Aukett
	Vice President:		Julielyn Gibbons
	Treasurer:		Dave Rudzin
	Secretary:		Ginnie Kasten
	Director:		Charlie Grotevant
	Director:		Ron Titlebaum

Other people involved in the creation of UOAA included:

	The Phoenix Publisher:		Ian Settlemire
	Advocacy Chair:		Linda Aukett
	Webmaster:		Bob Baumel