In re R.Z. CA3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (San Joaquin) ----

In re R.Z., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court C077090 Law.

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES (Super. Ct. No. J06512) AGENCY,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

C.R.,

Defendant and Appellant.

Father (C.R.) appeals from findings and orders made by the juvenile court at the conclusion of the contested six-month-review hearing (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.21, subd. (e).),1 at which time the court terminated father’s services. Father disputes only the

1 Further undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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court’s finding that he received reasonable reunification services, arguing that his services were inadequate because his case plan failed to include “any type of mental evaluation by either a psychiatric or psychological professional.” We find the claim forfeited and affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The minor, R.Z., and his mother both tested positive for methamphetamine when he was born in August 2013. As a result, the San Joaquin County Human Services Agency (the Agency) investigated the family. The Agency interviewed father and learned he had a history of marijuana, alcohol, and methamphetamine abuse; he also had five children with three different women, financially supporting none of them. R.Z. and his half siblings were placed in protective custody. The Agency investigated further and learned of father’s violent history. R.Z.’s mother reported being beaten by father in front of her children and watching father beat the mother of one of his other children in front of the other woman’s children. R.Z.’s mother also recalled that when she was pregnant with R.Z., father put his hand on her stomach and said “he knew the difference between a living, healthy baby and a dead baby.” He told her the baby was dead inside her and would be stillborn. Father reported to the Agency that he began using alcohol and marijuana when he was 11 years old. When he was 16 or 17, father was stealing cars and using methamphetamine; by age 20 he was heavily involved in gangs. As a result of his criminal activity, father spent many of his years as a teenager and a young adult incarcerated. The Agency filed a petition to detain R.Z. and his half siblings, alleging the children were at risk of substantial harm because of mother’s and father’s substance abuse, as well as the parents’ failure to provide the children with adequate care. (§ 300, subds. (b), (g), and (j).) The juvenile court subsequently found R.Z. came within the