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Petitioner S.W. (father) seeks writ review of an order terminating reunification services and setting a hearing to select and implement an alternative permanent plan for his daughter, S.W. The court impliedly found father failed to “contact and visit” S.W. during the six-month review period. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.21, subd. (e).) Father’s undisputed failure to visit S.W. supports the court’s order, notwithstanding his single telephone contact with her. We deny the petition.

FACTS

The Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) filed a juvenile dependency petition asserting father failed to protect and support S.W., who was 10 years old. (§ 300, subds. (b), (g).) SSA alleged father was homeless and had left S.W. in the care of relatives and caregivers for more than two months without providing for her support. S.W. needed long-term medical care and physical therapy due to a serious head injury she suffered at age six. Father failed to provide such care and did not “maintain a relationship and contact with the child.” After a detention hearing, the court vested temporary placement of S.W. with SSA.

Father appeared at the June 2008 pretrial hearing, despite SSA’s…