In re C.D. CA1/1

I. BACKGROUND

A. Juvenile Dependency Petition In April 2024, the Contra Costa County Children and Family Services Bureau (Bureau) filed a dependency petition pursuant to Welfare and

1 Institutions Code1 section 300, subdivision (b)(1), on behalf of minor, then nearly two years old. The petition alleged mother had a chronic mental health condition which placed minor at risk of serious physical harm or injury. Specifically, the petition alleged mother: expressed paranoid ideations that she and minor were being followed and that minor’s father2 and minor’s uncle had kidnapped minor; expressed threatening comments and aggressively tried to yank minor out of the uncle’s arms; expressed suicidal ideation; exhibited poor judgment in visiting a person she met online, during which the person’s mother slapped minor in the face; and had been placed on psychiatric holds at least twice due to psychotic episodes and was inconsistent with her psychiatric medications. Additionally, the petition alleged mother and father had physical altercations in minor’s presence and that father had failed to protect minor from mother’s conduct.3 The Bureau’s detention/jurisdiction report recommended that…