Department of Human Services v. S. S.

In this juvenile dependency case, mother appeals a judgment of the juvenile court that changed the permanency plan for two of her children from reunification with a parent to adoption.1 Mother contends, among other things, that the juvenile court erred in changing the plan to adoption without considering the reasonableness of the efforts that the Department of Human Services (DHS) made to reunite the children with her over the whole life of the case. We agree with mother that the court erred in considering only the most recent few months of reunification efforts by DHS as the basis for its…