Jeremy Loudenback

Los Angeles

Reporter at The Imprint

Public policy, media, and sometimes music. Reporter with The Imprint: juvenile justice and child welfare

Articles

Rental Subsidies Reduce Youth Homelessness, Study Finds

1 week ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

Young adults who receive a short-term subsidy for rental housing are significantly less likely to become homeless in the future, according to a study released Wednesday. Researchers with the California Policy Lab housed at UC Berkeley used Los Angeles County data to evaluate how young people who received homeless services between 2016 and 2019 fared years later.
Zombies No More: Former Foster Youth Reflect on Their Medicated Childhoods – and New Ways They Heal – MindSite News

3 weeks ago | mindsitenews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

In this fourth installment of a multi-part series, Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out?, we hear from young adults prescribed heavy doses of psychotropic medications in Los Angeles County more than a decade ago. The series comes from The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. Sign up for The Imprint’s free newsletters here.
New Group Aims to Strengthen Sibling Rights in Foster Care

4 weeks ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

It was the annual high school wrestling tournament that Lily Dorman Colby looked forward to most when she was a teen in foster care two decades ago. At the time, she was an All-American wrestler at Berkeley High. More than the actual competition, Colby was excited about the opportunity the tournament gave her to see a younger brother, who was also in foster care, but had been placed in a separate home.
Monitoring Psych Meds for California Foster Youth: ‘It's the Job of All Who Are Involved’ – MindSite News

4 weeks ago | mindsitenews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

Some state judges oversee prescribing to foster youth ‘like a hawk,’ but critics says others are laxPart 3 of a series. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. In California, foster youth prescribed psychiatric drugs are asked a series of questions: Do you know your diagnosis? Do you know the reason for the prescription? Are you aware of side effects? Do you have a trusted adult you can talk about medical issues with?
Former Foster Youth on Healing From Their Medicated Childhoods

1 month ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

In this fourth installment of the Imprint’s multi-part series Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out? we hear from young adults prescribed heavy doses of psychotropic medications in Los Angeles County more than a decade ago. Foster youth are typically in greater need of mental health support. But these four women found their pain and anguish muffled, not healed. Read the entire series here. Lethargic. Sluggish. Dizzy. Woozy. Destabilized. That was life in foster care on sedating psychotropic drugs.
Monitoring Psych Meds for CA Foster Youth

1 month ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

Today, in the third of The Imprint’s multi-part series Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out?, we examine oversight measures in California, where judges monitor psychotropic prescriptions. Next up in the series, read about the experiences of young people who took psychotropic medications while in the care of the state. In California, foster youth prescribed psychiatric drugs are asked a series of questions: Do you know your diagnosis? Do you know the reason for the prescription?
Support Don’t Report, Urge Bills Focused on Struggling Families

2 months ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

By law, teachers, nurses, child care providers, social workers, police officers and therapists must call authorities if they suspect potential child maltreatment. But too often, advocates say these requirements result in more harm than help: Unnecessary government intervention can drag parents into the child welfare system simply for being impoverished, not abusive. Bolstered by a year-long reform effort, the California Legislature will soon consider an alternate path.
‘Locked Up Simply for Existing’

2 months ago | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

“Nickel Boys,” a movie that portrays the struggles of two Black teens held in a nightmarish juvenile detention facility in 1960s Florida, will contend for the best picture Oscar at the 2025 Academy Awards next month. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, the story Is based on true-life abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida.
Former Foster Youth Will Lead Key California Advocacy Group

Feb 4, 2025 | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

The San Francisco-based John Burton Advocates for Youth named Sarah Pauter as its executive director today, marking the first time the prominent advocacy organization has been led by a former foster youth. Over the past 15 years, the group known as JBAY and named after a legendary California lawmaker has rolled out numerous significant policy reforms to help young people leaving the state’s foster care system secure stable housing, college degrees and economic support.
A Therapist Formerly in Foster Care Reflects on the L.A. Fires

Jan 29, 2025 | imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback

Flames loomed in the distance when Jeanette Yoffe left an afternoon therapy session with an adoptee on Jan. 7, the first terrifying visuals of the deadly Palisades Fire. Yoffe is a licensed psychotherapist who works with children, youth and families in the foster care system, where she too was raised. She’s thought deeply about her childhood through her mental health care practice and as a playwright, creative entrepreneur, nonprofit founder and therapist.