ORDERED that the orders of fact-finding and disposition are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The agency fulfilled its duty to encourage the parental relationship between the mother and her children. Consequently, the Family Court correctly determined that the agency exercised diligent efforts to strengthen that relationship (see, Matter of Carmen N., 237 A.D.2d 607).
The Family Court properly determined that the mother permanently neglected her two children within the meaning of Social Services Law § 384-b(7). During the one-year period between February 1997 and February 1998, the mother visited her children only three or four times despite the agency's persistent efforts to arrange visitation (see, Matter of Hasson B., 219 A.D.2d 649). Further, the mother's failure to overcome her drug abuse problem was sufficient to support a finding that she failed to plan for her children's future (see, Matter of Vincent M., 255 A.D.2d 515).
ALTMAN, J.P., SMITH, S. MILLER and COZIER, JJ., concur.