2020 Spring Celebration

May 28, 2020

AMCS Raises More Than $297,000 at FIRST VIRTUAL Spring Celebration

to Support Community Mental Health

Community mental health supporters rallied via Zoom on May 28 to raise more than $297,000 to support Airport Marina Counseling Service’s (AMCS) efforts to deliver low-cost community mental health services and train new therapists at the organization’s 16th annual "Spring into Well-Being” Celebration held online for the first time as the result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The event celebrated AMCS’s 2020 Champion of Mental Health Sandy Luboviski and AMCS’s 2020 Community Builder Tony Palermo, who have both 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 Sandy and Tony for their contributions, and we know that they will continue to shine a light on the ways in which AMCS helps.”

The event attracted more than 160 key local community and business leaders online and raised more than $285,000 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 its 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.

To view the video of the 2020 Spring Celebration, please click here.

To check out the Chat text from the Zoom meeting, please click here.