Jeremy Loudenback

1 day ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback |Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald

The Los Angeles court-appointed special advocates organization parted ways with its leader last week, a prominent voice for racial justice in the child welfare system who grew up in foster care and has decried her dismissal. Charity Chandler-Cole has led the local CASA program for the past four years. But in a message sent to its mailing list on June 18, CASA of Los Angeles stated that Cole, 39, was no longer working with the organization, and thanked her for her service.

2 weeks ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

As a high school sophomore in Los Angeles, former foster youth Kyshawna Johnson started flushing her psychotropic drugs down the toilet. She’d been told to take them since age 6. But they made her feel drowsy and emotionally “shut down.” They didn’t help soothe her feelings of grief and loss, or treat the trauma of childhood abuse and family separation she experienced in foster care. “You lose yourself when you take these medications,” Johnson said in an interview.

1 month ago | mercurynews.com | Jeremy Loudenback

A longtime California pediatrician has surrendered his medical license after facing more than two decades of accusations that he sexually abused his patients, foster youth and boys in his home. The development in the case of Dr. Patrick Clyne, 63, settled drawn-out legal proceedings with the state Attorney General’s office, which was set to lay out its evidence to bar him from practicing medicine. Clyne has long maintained his innocence and has never been arrested or criminally charged.

1 month ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

Sergio Rossi green alligator skin pumps in Italian leather. Tight-fitting, but comfortable binders. Fashionable gender-neutral tops by L.A. Apparel. This is the wardrobe transgender and nonbinary foster youth across Los Angeles County can now select from, free of charge, in a network of Rainbow Resource Rooms that opened in April.

1 month ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

A longtime California pediatrician has surrendered his medical license after facing more than two decades of accusations that he sexually abused his patients, foster youth and boys in his home. The development in the case of Dr. Patrick Clyne, 63, settled drawn-out legal proceedings with the state Attorney General’s office, which was set to lay out its evidence to bar him from the exam room in a matter of weeks.