Department of Human Services v. T. S.

In this juvenile dependency case, father appeals the juvenile court’s permanency judgment changing the plan for his daughter, T, from reunification to adoption. Father assigns error to the juvenile court’s determination that the Department of Human Services (DHS or the department) made reasonable efforts to reunify father with T. We agree with father and conclude that DHS’s efforts were not reasonable. Accordingly, we reverse and remand.

T was born on December 31, 2010. The department first became involved nine months later, in September 2011, when it received reports of father’s violent…