In re J.G. CA3

Filed 3/29/21 In re J.G. CA3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published,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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.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 THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Yolo) ----

In re J.G., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court C092995 Law.

YOLO COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN (Super. Ct. No. JV2019260) SERVICES AGENCY,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

M.G. et al.,

Defendants and Appellants.

M.G. (mother) and A.T. (father), parents of the minor, appeal from the juvenile court’s order denying mother’s petition to change the court’s order bypassing her for reunification services and thereafter terminating parental rights, freeing the minor for adoption. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 366.26, 388, 395; undesignated statutory references

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are to this code.) The parents contend the court erred when it denied their section 388 petition. We will affirm the juvenile court’s orders.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY On August 6, 2019, the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency (Agency) filed a dependency petition on behalf of the newborn minor pursuant to section 300, subdivision (b) alleging failure to protect due to mother’s long-term untreated substance abuse issues culminating in her positive test for methamphetamine at the minor’s birth, as well as father’s decades-long substance abuse. The petition further alleged abuse of sibling pursuant to subdivision (j) based on the termination of mother’s parental rights over the minor’s two half-siblings in 2010 due to mother’s untreated substance abuse. The detention report chronicled the parents’ extensive history of substance abuse, child welfare, and criminal history. Mother disclosed to the social worker that she began using marijuana when she was nine years old and started using other drugs when she was 14. She stated she had tried “probably a dozen drug treatment programs” but none of them worked. She used methamphetamine during her pregnancy and tested positive on July 26, 2019, just prior to the minor’s birth when she went to the hospital due to bleeding. The parents submitted on the detention report. The court ordered the minor detained and ordered the Agency to assess mother for mental health services and substance abuse treatment and provide both parents with alcohol and drug testing and substance abuse treatment services. The jurisdiction report stated mother completed a mental health assessment but had not completed substance abuse screening. Thereafter, both parents refused to meet with the social worker and instead “served” her with a document entitled “Affidavit of Notice of Facts and Contract” purporting to set forth the parents’ various rights and