Join us at Airport Marina Counseling Service’s Spring into Wellbeing Celebration on May 18th! – Venice Paparazzi | Venice Beach CA, Photo Agency, Community Info, News, Events

Airport Marina Counseling Service (AMCS) provides accessible community based mental health services; and provides quality training to therapists.

AMCS is a nonprofit, community-based mental health clinic that has been serving the greater LAX region since 1962. From its opening in 1962 to now, AMCS has continued to grow and expand its programs and services. Today, we serve hundreds of individuals, children and families and couples weekly, and our 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 we have no geographical boundaries, the Clinic 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.

Save the date 5/18/23 for Spring into Wellbeing Celebration!

Here is a message from Airport Marina Counseling Service!

This year’s 19th Annual “Spring into Well-Being” celebration will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 18, 2023 on the Drollinger Family Stage at Loyola Marymount University. We will hold an amazing celebration, auctions and more. Join us as we honor the 2023 Community Builder: LAWA CEO Justin Erbacci. This year’s goal is to raise over $350,000.

The “Spring into Well-Being” Celebration is the most important way for us to raise the funds necessary to continue our mission of providing low-cost mental health services and training new mental health professionals.

During a special reception in November at the AC Hotel, AMCS CEO Eden Garcia-Balis announced that Erbacci will be honored as the clinic’s 2023 Community Builder. Erbacci has been with LAWA since October 2016 and was appointed as CEO by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in June 2020.

As CEO, he has oversight of Los Angeles International (LAX) and Van Nuys (VNY) general aviation airports and leads the team responsible for transforming LAX into a world-class airport. His responsibilities involve managing more than $14 billion in programs to revolutionize how guests access the airport, to modernize all of LAX’s terminals and to significantly improve operations: retail, food and beverage and the overall guest experience. He also oversees programs to bring innovation and sustainability to VNY, one of the nation’s busiest general aviation airports, and oversees the largest airport police force in the United States.

“Justin and the airport have been incredible partners to our community and to the clinic,” said Garcia-Balis. “We are proud to recognize all that he has done for our area.”

Click here for more 5/18/23 Spring into Well Being event info!

Check out last year’s event photos and video by Venice Paparazzi.

Venice Paparazzi rolled out the red carpet and hosted a fun photo booth for the 2022 AMCS’s Spring into Well-Being Celebration at LMU. View event highlights below!