In re Alysheionna HH.

Respondent does not dispute that petitioner met its threshold burden of establishing that it “made diligent efforts to encourage and strengthen the parental relationship” (Social Services Law § 384-b [7] [a]; see Matter of Hailey ZZ. [Ricky ZZ.], 19 NY3d 422, 429 [2012]). Instead, she contends that petitioner did not establish by clear and convincing evidence “that respondent failed — for a period of more than a year — to ‘substantially and continuously or repeatedly . . . maintain contact with or plan for the future of the child, although physically and financially able to do so’ ” (Matter…