TCS Approves Lease Of Brewer Porch Building To Continue Offering Mental Health Services

TUSCALOOSA, AL — The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education has approved a lease for the former Brewer Porch building to continue providing mental health services to its students.

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The decision comes after the University of Alabama closed its Brewer Porch program in late May — a program that included an inpatient residential program and outpatient, educational day program.

TCS said it will cost approximately $750,000 a year to run the program, including the hiring of additional employees.

The program will be named "The Tuscaloosa City Schools Children's Center."

TCS says some of its employees, including nine paraprofessionals and three teachers, who previously worked at Brewer Porch, will continue to work at The Children's Center.

TCS Superintendent Mike Daria also said additional employees had to be hired to run the center as a TCS program, including a program coordinator, a mental health therapist, a social worker and a nurse.

"We will have the full complement," Daria said.

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