Senior Editor
A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, Jeremy Loudenback currently writes about the child-welfare system, mental health, congregate care and juvenile justice for Imprint, formerly known as The Chronicle of Social Change. He lives and works in Los Angeles. He is a 2020 California Fellow.
Instead of a surge of children entering foster care during the pandemic, the child welfare system has often found itself struggling to help families leave the system.
Child welfare cases are at a 14-year high months after Los Angeles County’s Dependency Court reopened in June. Families and attorneys are struggling in virtual courtrooms.
With Californians hunkered down to stop the vicious spread of coronavirus, three Los Angeles County sisters are stranded 400 miles from the places they call home, with no idea when they will be able to return.
Federal offficials are concerned families could be penalized unfairly.
Are parents whose children are being removed from their homes following allegations of abuse and neglect being billed for the cost of foster care and family reunification services? The signs suggest yes.
