In re A.C.

BACKGROUND

1. The Juvenile Court Assumed Jurisdiction Over the Children 2 For an undisclosed period prior to her 18th birthday, mother, who was born in 1985, was in foster care. Mother has

Because the sole issue on appeal is compliance with the state statute implementing ICWA, a detailed recitation of the non-ICWA related background is not necessary to the resolution of this appeal. Additionally, we focus only on A.C. (not T.F. or

3 three children, T.F. (born in 2009), S.F. (born in 2011), and A.C. (born in 2017). Father is A.C.’s father. At the time the dependency proceedings commenced, the children were living with mother, and mother reported that father helped with A.C.

a. Section 300 petition DCFS became involved with the family after mother drove while under the influence of alcohol and collided with another vehicle. The children were in mother’s car during this collision. DCFS filed a section 300 petition, and the juvenile court sustained allegations that A.C. was at risk of suffering serious physical harm based on mother driving while under the influence. The juvenile court allowed the children to remain in mother’s care. As part of the case plan dated July 7,…