A.A.

I. BACKGROUND

Mother has had a drug problem for at least two decades. She completed inpatient substance abuse programs in 2002, 2004, and 2010, but she admitted smoking methamphetamine while pregnant with J.M. and tested positive for methamphetamine when J.M. was born in January 2013. Dependency petitions were filed for J.M. and F.F. on January 22, 2013, alleging Mother‟s failure to protect based on her serious and chronic substance abuse problem (§ 300, subd. (b)), and her failure to reunify with the minors‟ siblings (§ 300, subd. (j)). The petitions were sustained, and J.M. and F.F. were adjudged dependent children. In May, the Contra Costa County Children and Family Services Bureau (the Bureau) prepared a dispositional report stating that J.M. and F.F. were placed together in a foster home. The foster mother likened two-year-old F.F.‟s behavior to that of a “wild fox, always on the move.” F.F. “presented as a child who had never been disciplined and was used to fending for herself.” The foster mother stated that “when [F.F.] gets upset, she will „attack,‟ kicks, spits, bites, etc. . . . [F.F.] continues to have „nightmares,‟ screaming in her sleep.” F.F. followed the foster…