In re A.M. CA1/4

Background In April 2018, the Contra Costa County Children and Family Services Bureau (the bureau) filed a dependency petition alleging that at the time of A.M.’s birth, both she and her mother tested positive for methadone, benzodiazepines and oxycodone. A.M. suffered from significant drug withdrawal symptoms and remained in the hospital for almost two months. In June 2018, the court found that A.M. came within the meaning of section 300, subdivision (b), based on mother’s substance abuse. At the dispositional hearing held later that month, A.M. was placed with her maternal grandparents. By December 2018, the court found that mother had been maintaining her sobriety and A.M. was returned to her custody. In January 2020, the bureau filed a supplemental petition seeking to move A.M. to a more restrictive placement. The petition alleged, among other things, that the parents had been involved in three domestic violence incidents in 2019 and that the parents continued to violate prior court orders that prohibited them from having contact with each other. The court approved the emergency placement of A.M. with her maternal grandparents and sustained the allegations of the supplemental…