Tamara G. v. Superior Court CA1/1

Filed 2/17/16 Tamara G. v. Superior Court CA1/1 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

TAMARA G., Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CONTRA A146988 COSTA COUNTY, (Contra Costa County Respondent; Super. Ct. Nos. J15-00680, J15-00681, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY CHILDREN J15-00682) & FAMILY SERVICES BUREAU, Real Party in Interest.

Tamara G. (Mother) petitions this court for extraordinary writ review of a juvenile court order setting a selection-and-implementation hearing for her three sons. She contends that the hearing was wrongly set because she (1) received inadequate reunification services from the Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau (Bureau), (2) was wrongly denied a continuance, and (3) showed that she could reunify with her sons if the reunification period were extended. In this abbreviated opinion,1 we are not persuaded by these contentions and deny the petition.

1 Because Mother’s petition raises no substantial issues of law or fact, we resolve this cause by abbreviated form of opinion as permitted by California Standards of Judicial Administration, section 8.1.

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I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The Calaveras Health and Human Services Agency (Calaveras Agency) became aware of Mother and her family in 2010, and it received multiple referrals over the next four years about Mother’s excessive alcohol use and its negative effect on her ability to raise her children. Mother was repeatedly offered, but refused, voluntary family- maintenance services. Dependency proceedings began in Calaveras County when, in May 2014, the Calaveras Agency filed dependency petitions relating to Mother’s three sons, then four years old, two years old, and six months old. The petitions alleged that Mother failed to provide safe and adequate care for her sons due to her severe alcohol abuse, and that Mother was recently arrested for willful cruelty to a child and disorderly conduct after her oldest son called 911 during an argument Mother was having with the maternal grandmother. According to the petitions, after Mother’s arrest, the children were ordered detained and placed in protective custody because Mother was “too intoxicated to parent.” After a waiver of her right to a contested hearing, Mother submitted on the petitions, and the juvenile court sustained the allegations under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b)2 (failure to protect). The juvenile court considered the disposition reports and declared the three boys to be dependent children and ordered reunification services for Mother. Mother began participating in a residential-treatment program, and in October 2014 she requested that her youngest son be allowed to live with her. All parties agreed to the request, and the juvenile court allowed it. At the time of a review hearing held in December 2014, Mother had progressed in her treatment program, and the Calaveras Agency recommended that she continue to receive reunification services as to her older two sons and family-maintenance services as