State ex rel. Juvenile Dept. v. Scott

Mother appeals an order terminating her parental rights to her daughter, arguing that social service agencies did not make reasonable efforts to enable her to care for her child through supervised mutual foster care placement. We review de novo, ORS 419.561(4), and affirm.

Mother suffers from mental retardation and schizophrenia. She receives services through the Multnomah County Mentally Retarded Developmentally Delayed program (MRDD) and lives in adult foster care. Her daughter was born January 20,1986. During the daughter’s first five months of life, she lived with mother under a mutual…