In re Serena H. CA5

Filed 8/17/15 In re Serena H. CA5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

In re SERENA H. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

TULARE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN F071246 SERVICES AGENCY, (Super. Ct. Nos. JJV067180B, Plaintiff and Respondent, JJV067180C)

v. OPINION CINDY F.,

Defendant and Appellant.

THE COURT* APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Tulare County. Hugo J. Loza, Commissioner. Sharon S. Rollo, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent. -ooOoo-

* Before Gomes, Acting P.J., Kane, J. and Detjen, J.

Cindy F. appealed from the juvenile court’s order terminating her parental rights (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.26)1 as to her five-year-old daughter Serena H. and her two- year-old son Ray H. After reviewing the juvenile court record, Cindy’s court-appointed counsel informed this court she could find no arguable issues to raise on Cindy’s behalf. This court granted Cindy leave to personally file a letter setting forth a good cause showing that an arguable issue of reversible error exists. (In re Phoenix H. (2009) 47 Cal.4th 835, 844 (Phoenix H.).) Cindy filed a letter in which she asks that her children not be adopted and that she be given another chance to prove that she can properly parent them. She explains in her letter that she was grieving the death of the children’s father when they were removed from her custody in July 2013. She admits that she made mistakes but believes herself to be a good mother. She further explains that she had a rough childhood; she was made a ward of the state after suffering abuse by a relative and became a mother at age 13. Despite that, she raised her children and her siblings for the past eight to nine years while going to high school. She informs this court that she is incarcerated and expected to be released in January 2016. Meanwhile, she is participating in “NA, Sisters of Unity, Criminal thinking [and] Grief and Loss” and is on a waiting list for a substance abuse program. We conclude Cindy failed to address the termination proceedings or set forth a good cause showing that any arguable issue of reversible error arose from the termination hearing. (Phoenix H., supra, 47 Cal.4th at p. 844.) Consequently, we dismiss the appeal. PROCEDURAL AND FACTUAL SUMMARY Dependency proceedings were initiated in July 2013 after a social worker from the Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency (agency) responded to multiple