What are the criteria to adopt? What is the agencies benefit if the children are adopted?
Here is a the national report on foster care and adoption for the last fiscal year.
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/afcarsreport24.pdf
It actually shows white children as being in the highest number...however, when I adopted I was told if you were open to race you would most likely be placed with a child of color.
To adopt.... (every adoption through foster care is different, but here are the basic guidelines) you need to be able to support yourself and your current family (but not the foster/adoptive child) you have to have room for the child in your home (one to two babies can sleep in the parents room and each bedroom can only house two children...this is in CA) That's it, you have to submit your finger prints for an FBI record, your home is investigated (cleanliness, safety etc) you are interviewed (no prior drug problems, relationship issues, abuse in your family etc) and then a report is made, you tell the adoption placement worker what you are and are not comfortable with as far as special needs go and in a day to a few months to a year, you are placed with a child. The biological parents have a year to follow their case plan to get the kids back into their custody. When the biological parents are at the point of losing custody, if they reach that point, their family is offered an opportunity to adopt the child, if their relatives do not come forward the foster adoptive parent can adopt.
Reasons why the bio family (who we have open contact with in our adoption) chose not to adopt my children was, with one, they knew the drugs the bio mom took while pregnant and couldn't "take a child who had been exposed to so many drugs" so she stayed with me. The second the bio family was already raising many of the kids who had come into the system from their family and I was told the family didn't want another child with the bio mom and bio grandmom's mental illness. I didn't know my newborn would end up with the biological mental illness of her mom, aunt, uncle and grandmother...but she did.
Black people and people of any color are always welcome to adopt children through foster care there are about 30,000 children at any given time who need homes. If anyone wants to do right by the kids who are still out there suffering, perhaps the Hart story will inspire people to adopt those children, especially the ones listed on the all4kids website who are there because they are hard to place.
I am adopting again....one reason, our therapists think it would be good for our family (long reason won't get into) and two there are just so many kids who need homes. We have a fun home, my kids are doing great, they have been through a lot and may go through more still, but we're doing good. I'm not out to save anyone...but provide a child a home and so can anyone else and I hope and pray they do.
I don't know what the benefit to the agency is other than I know the agency I worked with provided foster care, foster/adoption, parent resources, birth family resources and support, support groups, therapy, etc.