The event, emceed by retired NBC4 Weathercaster Fritz Coleman, attracted hundreds of key local community and business leaders, including Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park, and raised more than $390,000 to continue to support the clinic’s mission to provide affordable, community-based mental health services and to support the training of 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 1962. From its opening in 1962 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.

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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. During the pandemic, AMCS immediately pivoted to telehealth and continues to serve clients throughout California remotely.