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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS

In re ENRIQUE COLON, JR., Minor.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Petitioner-Appellee, v VICKI SUE CLARK, Respondent-Appellant.

UNPUBLISHED February 7, 2006

No. 263695 Muskegon Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 02-030485-NA

Before: Meter, P.J., Whitbeck, C.J., and Schuette, J. PER CURIAM. Respondent appeals as of right from a circuit court order terminating her parental rights pursuant to MCL 712A.19b(3)(g), (i) and/or (l). We affirm. I. FACTS Respondent is the mother of six children of whom Enrique, Jr. is the youngest. Petitioner filed an original termination petition as to Enrique, Jr. on April 29, 2005, alleging that respondent, who was homeless, had neglected her other children and they were adjudicated wards of the court in 2003. Respondent's parental rights to three of those children had been terminated in 2004. Following a preliminary hearing, the court authorized the petition and placed Enrique, Jr. in foster care. Petitioner withdrew the request for termination as to the putative father, Enrique Colon. At the May 6, 2005 adjudicatory hearing, Colon entered a plea of admission to the petition and the court took jurisdiction over the child. The court conducted a termination hearing on June 15, 2005. Testimony showed that respondent's parental rights had been terminated as to five other children. Additionally, at the time Enrique, Jr. was born, respondent was either homeless or was living with a friend. She was still living with that person at the time of the hearing. When asked what she had done to improve her situation since the prior termination hearing, she said she had "[b]een helping with everybody else's kids . . . ." She had not done anything more constructive because "[n]obody told me what I . . . was supposed to do." Petitioner sought termination pursuant to

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