Webinar Understanding Contingency Management: A Foundational Webinar for Homeless Service Providers

Date: Mar 11 2025 | 2 - 3:30pm (EST)

Recording of Webinar

Description

Contingency management is a psychosocial therapy that uses rewards to incentivize people to reach their substance use goals. Decades of research have shown that contingency management programs help people decrease and stop stimulant drug use. As stimulant use and stimulant involvement in fatal overdoses have both increased in recent years, having an intervention to help people decrease or stop their use has become even more important. There are currently no FDA-approved medication treatments for stimulant use disorder.

This webinar will provide attendees with a foundational understanding of contingency management and how it works to support individuals experiencing homelessness with substance use or co-occurring disorders. Attendees will hear from two programs about how they use contingency management—what has worked, what has been challenging, and how other programs might develop contingency management programs of their own.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to submit questions and hear from presenters and program participants about their own experiences.

ASL Interpretation and live captioning will be provided
Certificates of participation will be provided to those who complete a post-event evaluation
No CEUs are provided
This webinar will be recorded
Webinar recordings include human captioning in English and Spanish

Related HHRC Fact Sheet: Getting Started with Contingency Management

Link to Evaluation and Certificate of Participation in English

Link to Evaluation and Certificate of Participation in Spanish

Resource Downloads

Webinar Speakers

Dr. Elizabeth Abbs, MD

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco
Maleika Edwards, RN

San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco
Dr. Edward Suarez, PsyD

IDEA Exchange, Miami
Emilie Ashbes

IDEA Exchange, Miami

Classification

Topic: Substance Use: Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Outpatient (Community based treatment, Counseling)
Language: English; Spanish

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