In re Javon H. CA1/3

BACKGROUND

Father and Mother have six children, but these two Minors have a different biological father, and their two older siblings have a different biological mother. This appeal pertains exclusively to the Minors, Father’s stepchildren. Father and Mother both have a significant history of substance abuse and, prior to February 2020, were receiving from the Agency informal family maintenance services. Then, on February 11, 2020, school officials discovered three used needles and an empty methadone container in then seven-year-old Jaden’s backpack and learned that Javon had been pricked by one of the needles. The Agency took both Minors and their four siblings into protective custody and placed them in foster homes. Weekly supervised visits for the entire family soon began. On February 14, 2020, the Agency filed a juvenile dependency petition against Father and Mother with respect to the Minors and their two younger siblings. On April 21 the Agency filed the operative second amended petition, whose pertinent allegations include Father’s and Mother’s failure to supervise the Minors as a result of substance abuse. (See § 300, subd. (b)(1).) The Agency recommended that the court…