Spaulding for Children, founded in 1968, is a private non-profit child welfare agency recognized as a national leader in developing and providing resources, services, and training for foster and adoptive families and for those who support them. Spaulding was established on the belief that every child is adoptable and that families are crucial to the healthy development of children. Today, the organization focuses on building stronger families to create stronger communities.

Spaulding for Children helps find homes for children in the public child welfare system and supports families in maintaining their children safely in their homes. We offer research-based training and education for prospective adoptive and foster parents and engage in partnership projects funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)/Children’s Bureau.

The organization develops and provides research-based training curricula used by states, tribes, and territories to prepare and equip foster and adoptive parents. We connect kinship families to the resources, tools and networks that support them. Kinship care is the full-time care, nurturing and protection of children by family members, close family friends or other important adults in the child’s life. We’ve made it our mission to support and empower kinship families across Michigan to ensure the children they are raising are safe, healthy, nurtured and loved.

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