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Posted inSahan Journal

‘Kids deserve better’: Minnesota agencies struggle to diversify pool of foster parents

When she ran the African American Adoption Agency in Minneapolis more than two decades ago, Marquita Stephens helped develop a training program for foster and adoptive parents planning to care for kids of a different race. It involved a Bingo-like game. Agency staff handed prospective parents a scorecard, with boxes to mark after they answered a series of questions.