The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm PST May 1, 2025
Click here for a pdf of the full call for submissions.
The conference awards aim to increase participation of educators, researchers and clinicians who bring a range of perspectives, life experiences, and cultural influences, including pre-professional students, early career professionals and community professionals from within underrepresented disciplines for whom registration costs may have historically prohibited conference participation.
To donate to these funds, please visit our donation page here and select Scholarship Fund from the drop down menu on the form.
AMERSA Conference Award
- Full conference registration and $500 travel stipend
- Priority to those with an accepted abstract or workshop
Workforce Development Award
- Sponsorship of the conference including registration, hotel lodging, and flight cost (up to $2,500 total)
- 1-year AMERSA membership
- Participate in a year-long AMERSA mentor-mentee program
- Option for second-year renewal to individuals who get accepted to present an abstract or workshop and agree to continue in the AMERSA mentor-mentee program for a second year
- We encourage recipients to participate in an AMERSA special interest group or committee
Community Professional Conference Award
- Full conference registration and $500 travel stipend
- Eligible applicants include community professionals for whom registration costs may have historically prohibited conference participation, including Peer Recovery Coaches/Certified Peer Specialists, Community Health Workers, Community Support Specialists, Case Managers, Community Health Educators, and others in similar frontline positions in safety net community medical and/or behavioral health settings.
Sidney H. Schnoll Conference Scholarship
- Sponsorship of the conference including registration, hotel lodging, and transportation (up to $2,000 total)
- 1-year AMERSA membership
- Eligible applicants must be an early career investigator (i.e., up to 5-years post-doctoral degree), from a discipline that is underrepresented in AMERSA (e.g., counseling, nursing, psychology, social work) or specialty (e.g., anesthesiology, cardiology, obstetrics/gynecology), with an accepted abstract that focuses on the interface between substance use and pain or substance use in the perinatal period or pregnancy.
Multidisciplinary Engagement Award
- Full conference registration and $500 travel stipend
- Priority given to members of the multidisciplinary health care team who are not compensated as highly as other disciplines; specifically nurses, social workers, pharmacists and substance use/addiction counselors
Our 4 awards are guided by the following priorities:
- Increase participation of educators, researchers and clinicians who bring a range of perspectives, life experiences, and cultural influences, including:
- Lived experience of substance use disorder
- First-generation students (parents or guardians did not attend a college equivalent program)
- Support conference participation by pre-professional students and early career professionals, including:
- Students in health professional programs or equivalent certificate programs, in the fields of pharmacy, medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, and public health
- Early career health professionals in their first two-years of practice after completing residency or certificate programs (including advance practice providers)
- Increase attendance among community professionals and within underrepresented disciplines for whom registration costs may have historically prohibited conference participation, including:
- Peer Recovery Coaches/Certified Peer Specialists, Community Health Workers, Community Support Specialists, Case Managers, Community Health Educators, Substance Use/Addiction Counselors, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Nurses and those in frontline positions in safety net community medical and/or behavioral health settings