Negative Perceptions of Agencies and Their Practices. Families of color often possess negative perceptions of public and private agencies and their underlying motives. Lack of Minority Staff. Consequently, their relative scarcity impedes minority families hoping to adopt. General Lack of Recruitment Activity and Poor Recruitment Techniques.
Agencies are unable to set aside financial and human resources required for effective recruitment.
Communities of color remain largely unaware of the need for their services. The placement data collected from agencies provides other important insights as well. However, upon closer inspection, more detailed information is rapidly uncovered. While equally as interesting, contrasting private agencies with public ones was more difficult because of poor record-keeping in the public sector. Only eight of 23 public agencies interviewed had statistics enabling same race placement percentages to be computed.