In re P.P. CA3

BACKGROUND

On March 20, 2013, the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) filed dependency petitions (§ 300) alleging jurisdiction over five- month-old P.P., 16-month-old R.P., and two-and-a-half-year-old Va.P. The petitions alleged the parents used methamphetamine, and failed to provide adequate housing, medical attention, and supervision of the minors in spite of DHHS providing informal services to them since October 2012. On March 28, 2013, the juvenile court detained the minors in the home of the paternal second cousin L.L. The juvenile court sustained the petitions and ordered reunification services for both parents in May 2013. An August 2013 addendum report detailed problems regarding the minors’ placement with L.L. The criminal record of L.L.’s estranged husband prevented the kinship unit from granting a waiver. In addition, L.L. gave up her foster parent license in 2007 after a substantiated allegation of misconduct. As a result, the juvenile court removed the minors from L.L.’s home in September 2013. Later that month, L.L.’s brother V.L. offered his home for possible placement of the minors. DHHS began assessing V.L.’s home for possible…