2019 Spring Celebration
April 11, 2019
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AMCS Raises More Than $344,000 at Spring Celebration
to Support Community Mental Health
Community mental health supporters rallied on April 11 to raise more than $344,000 to support Airport Marina Counseling Service’s (AMCS) efforts to deliver low-cost community mental health services and train new therapists at the organizations 15th annual "Spring into Well-Being” Celebration at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott.
The event celebrated AMCS’s Champion of Mental Health Jane St. John, who has been instrumental in helping AMCS become an indispensable part of the county’s mental health care safety net.
“We are so excited that the community recognizes the important role AMCS plays in making sure everyone has access to mental health services," said AMCS CEO Eden Garcia-Balis. “We were excited to honor Jane for her contributions, and we know that she will continue to shine a light on the ways in which AMCS helps.”
The event attracted nearly 300 key local community and business leaders and raised more than $344,000 to help continue providing much-needed affordable, community-based mental health services and to support the training of the clinic’s more than 60 mental health therapists each year.
AMCS is a nonprofit, community-based mental health clinic that has been serving the greater LAX region since 1961. From its opening in 1961 to now, AMCS has continued to grow and expand it programs and services. Today, the Clinic serves hundreds of individuals, children and families and couples weekly, and its services are provided on a sliding-scale basis.
As affordable mental health resources become more difficult to find, more people living further away from AMCS depend upon its services. Though the Clinic has no geographical boundaries, AMCS currently serves the greater LAX area including Westchester, El Segundo, Culver City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Marina del Rey, Playa del Rey and Venice, Santa Monica, Torrance, South Los Angeles and extended areas of Los Angeles County. AMCS offers comprehensive therapeutic services to individuals, children and families, couples and older adults, many of whom would otherwise have little access to counseling. Open seven days a week, Airport Marina Counseling Service provides an array of successful programs, both at the Clinic and off-site, to meet the needs of people of all ages.