Spaulding for Children (dba Arms Wide)

Arms Wide (formerly Spaulding for Children) is a Houston-based, licensed child-placement nonprofit that guides families through foster care, adoption, kinship care, and post‑permanency supports across Greater Houston and South Texas. The organization focuses on placing children in safe, permanent homes and provides ongoing post‑adoption services and supports to families.

In recent years Arms Wide has continued direct service work: its published Form 990 for the most recent year reports program activity including thousands of foster care days and multiple foster‑to‑adopt placements in a single year, and the organization reports more than 2,300 children placed in permanent adoptive homes since its founding. Arms Wide also emphasizes specialized placement for older children, sibling groups, children of color, and children with physical, mental or emotional disabilities and offers services in English and Spanish.