In re K.W. CA2/5

INTRODUCTION

Mother appeals after the juvenile court assumed jurisdiction over her five children pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b), and ordered family maintenance services.1 Mother challenges both the jurisdiction and the disposition orders. As to the former, she contends that there was insufficient evidence that her mental health problems interfered with her ability to provide regular care and supervision of the children. She asserts the court abused its discretion in its disposition by ordering her to participate in counseling, mental health services, parenting classes, and limited drug testing. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

1. Mother’s Mental Health Problems The family consists of mother, father, and their five children (born 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Mother and father had been together for 11 years. Mother (32 years old) had a traumatic childhood, during which her own mother abandoned her (at age 15) for drugs, and mother’s biological father neglected her. By the summer of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic cut mother off from the spiritual support she had been receiving at her church, and mother’s childhood trauma…