Support Mental Health Services, Honor Cedars-Sinai Marina Del Rey

MARINA DEL REY, CA — Airport Marina Counseling Service's will host its 17th annual "Spring into Well-Being” Celebration Thursday with a silent auction fundraiser, honoring the success of the 2021 Champion of Mental Health Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital.

It starts Thursday at 5 p.m. via Zoom and recognizes the instrumental work that Cedars-Sinai and AMCS have done for the county's mental health care safety net.

“The hospital helped AMCS with grants to create a three-year strategic plan and funded a partnership with Mar Vista and Open Paths Family Counseling called the 'Building Healthy Families Collaborative,'" said AMCS CEO Eden Garcia-Balis.

"They have also given us a grant for an electronic health records system, which will be huge for us as we work to digitize our records and make them more user-friendly," Garcia-Balis said. "We are excited to honor Cedars for their incredible contributions to the clinic."

The goal is to raise more than $300,000 to help continue providing much-needed, community-based and accessible mental health services. This helps support the training of the clinic's more than 60 mental health therapists each year.

The Spring Celebration features a silent auction, which includes items from lunch with a Lakers insider and Napa Valley getaway to a variety of gift baskets — there's also a chance to win a year's worth of flower deliveries. Make a bid on the gala's website.

People can also enter a wine lot drawing. Tickets are $100, with just 50 tickets available for a chance to win 24 bottles of great wines, plus a very special double magnum. The value is more than $1,700.

The winning ticket will be drawn at the event, and the winner need not be present to win.

This wine lot includes some truly special bottles, including Ramey Chardonnay Woosley Road Vineyard (2016); Chateau Lynch-Bages Pauillac (Grand Cru Classe) (2003); Chateu Baron de Pichon-longueville Pauillac (Grand Cru Classe) (2003); Estancia Reserve Mertiage Double Magnum (2014) and more.

Purchase tickets by emailing Bill Morgan at bmorgan@amcshelps.com or call (310) 670-1410.

Retired NBC4 Weathercaster Fritz Coleman will serve as the emcee, and the event will include a variety of auction items and a celebration of the clinic's success in providing critically needed mental health services even in the midst of a pandemic.

Visit the website for more information about the event or to purchase a ticket: www.AMCShelps.com.

Airport Marina Counseling Service offers community-based, accessible mental health services; and provide quality training to therapists. The nonprofit clinic has served the greater LAX region
since 1961. It has expanded and grown its programs to serve hundreds of people of all ages, including children, families and couples each week. Services are provided on a sliding-scale basis and the clinic is open seven days a week both on and off-site.

As affordable mental health resources become more difficult to find, more people living further away from AMCS depend upon its services. The clinic has no geographical boundaries and serves the greater LAX area neighborhoods, 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.

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