- Spaulding partners with the Michigan department of Social Services to pioneer special needs adoption for children in Michigan.
- Spaulding trained others in successful methods throughout the United States, Canada Great Britain, and South Africa.
- The NRC trains over 60,000 professionals and parents and develops state of the art video curriculum in adoption, cultural competency, parent training, child assessment, developmental disabilities and post adoption services. Grant was renewed for $700,000 per year for 5 years, starting in 1999.
- Spaulding sells the farm to consolidate training and services in one location in Detroit.
- Spaulding helps Wayne County Community Mental Health establish a provider network for post placement services to adoption and kinship families and becomes a Medicaid provider in the mental health system.
- Spaulding implements the Bandele project, a collaboration with 14 African American churches, to find, train and support foster, adoptive, and kinship families and to provide supportive services for older children to increase their adoption opportunities.
- Spaulding is accepted by the Van Dusen Endowment Challenge program and achieves $1,000,000 campaign goal within 14 months.
- Spaulding became fully accredited by the Council on Accreditation in early 1999
- Mike Lucci Scholarship Endowment established for Spaulding for Children
- With an original gift of $40,000 from the Hearst Foundation, Spaulding develops and implements Partners Endowment Campaign to build endowment funds to $5,000,000 by 2002.
- Spaulding’s National Resource Center’s funding is renewed for 5 more years – until 2003 – for $700,000 per year.
- Spaulding initiates expansion of foster care, adoption, and post adoption services with additional state referrals and contracts.
- Spaulding receives new grant from the Skillman Foundation to establish Parent Help Centers in eight African American Faith Communities. The Parent Help Centers receive support and consultation from Spaulding to offer parent training, outreach, and other programs to prevent child abuse and neglect in their respective communities.
- Spaulding is named as the “Best Managed Nonprofit” by Crain’s Detroit Business and is awarded $10,000.
- The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption has trained more than 72,000 professionals, staff, and families nationwide
- Spaulding’s National Resource Center for Adoption’s funding is renewed for 5 more years – until 2008 for $1,000,000 per year and in 2008 renewed for another 5 years for $1,200,000 per year.
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