Baker, J.
A.M. (Mother) was involuntarily committed for emergency mental health treatment, and the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) filed a petition alleging that each of Mother’s two children was a child in need of services (CHINS). The juvenile court determined that A.M.-K. was a CHINS, and Mother was ordered to participate in various services and to abide by the recommendations of mental health professionals, including taking all medications as prescribed.
Mother challenges the propriety of the parental participation order. More particularly, Mother claims that because the DCS failed to file a parental participation petition, the juvenile court lacked the authority to order her participation in any services or treatment. Mother also claims that the order directing her to take any medications as prescribed violates her constitutional right to decide her own mental health treatment.
We conclude that Mother was adequately notified of the DCS’s recommended plan of participation and that Mother acquiesced to the trial court’s authority to enter a parental participation order. However, we also conclude that the DCS failed to present sufficient evidence to overcome Mother’s liberty interest in deciding her own treatment when Mother objected to the order and presented evidence of her concerns. Accordingly, we affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for additional proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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The judgment of the juvenile court is affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
RILEY, J., and BARNES, J., concur.