In Re Calvin P.

P.P. (Mother) and her children Calvin P. and Kayla P. (together the children) appeal a juvenile court order requiring the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (the Agency) to provide family maintenance services for their family. They contend the court erred by requiring family maintenance services instead of reunification services for Mother because the children were placed in the custody of their father C.P. (Father), not with Mother, and the Agency had not provided reasonable reunification services for Mother even though the services were court ordered and were in the children’s best interests. We affirm the order requiring family maintenance services for Father and the children, but reverse the order for family maintenance services for Mother and order she be provided reasonable reunification services.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On December 14, 2006, the Agency petitioned under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b), on behalf of 12-year-old Calvin and seven-year-old Kayla, alleging Mother’s use of methamphetamine had caused their sibling K.P. to be removed from Mother’s care at birth; Mother’s services regarding K.P.’s…