CFRC: Data Center: Tables

Definition: Of all children entering substitute care and initially placed in kinship or traditional foster homes, the percentage that was placed with their siblings in their initial placement.

Denominator: The number of children entering substitute care during the fiscal year who had siblings in substitute care and were initially placed into kinship or traditional foster homes. Siblings are defined as children who belong to a common family based on the ID number of the family.

Numerator: The number of children placed in the same foster home as all of their siblings in substitute care in their initial placement.

Exclusions

Youth aged 18 and older are excluded. Age is calculated as of the date the child enters substitute care.
Children with no siblings in substitute care are excluded.
Children whose legal spell is 7 or fewer days are excluded.

A Note on Placement Type
Placement type was defined by two fields in the database: service type code and placement type code. In defining each placement type, the service type code was given priority over the placement type code. If a service type code was not present, placement type code was used to define a child’s placement type.

A Note on Legal Spell
A legal spell was defined as the period a child is in DCFS legal custody during an open child placement case. In other words, it is the time period that a child legally enters substitute care until the child legally exits care. Using a comprehensive list of court hearings regarding the child’s legal custody history, a table with records of the time (spell) during which a child is under DCFS custody was created. The legal status effective dates and the legal status code were used to determine the spell.

The data used to compute this measure come from the DCFS Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and these data were extracted on September 30, 2025. All indicators are calculated based on the state fiscal year, which spans the 12-month period from July 1 to June 30.

A Note on Totals
The per-year totals for this measure ("ALL CHILDREN") reflect the total numbers of children with valid values for the breakdown being viewed. Since counts may be culled from records missing geographic, demographic or placement type information, totals between breakdowns may not be identical. For example, adding counts for all age groups for a given year may not produce the same result as adding races, since there may be missing races and/or ages in the population.

A Note on Small Populations
To protect privacy and ensure statistical reliability, when the applicable population is between 1 to 5, the value is displayed as "≤ 5" and the outcome data is masked. If the applicable population is zero, the value is displayed as "0" and the outcome is also masked.

A Note on Race
If the child’s ethnicity was coded as any of the following Hispanic origin, their race/ethnicity was coded as Latinx regardless of their race code: Hispanic South American, Hispanic Cuban, Hispanic Mexican, Hispanic Puerto Rican, Hispanic Spanish Descent, Hispanic Dominican, Hispanic Central American, and Hispanic Other. If the child’s ethnicity was non-Latinx and they had more than one race code, then their race/ethnicity was defined as multiracial. If the child’s ethnicity was non-Latinx and the value of the race is Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders, or multiracial, it was coded as "Other." If the value of primary race was "could not be verified," "unknown," "declined to identify," or missing (null), it was treated as missing and excluded when indicators are reported by race/ethnicity.

Initial Placement with Siblings

Of all children entering substitute care and initially placed in kinship or traditional foster homes, the percentage that was placed with siblings.

Change Measure

Data extracted on September 30, 2025.

Illinois Region Sub-Region County

Cook North Cook Central Cook South Aurora Rockford Champaign Peoria Springfield East St. Louis Marion

| All Children | Placement Type |

Aurora Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Aurora Sub-Region		Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Total Children	Placed with All Sibs	%
2019	241	176	73.0%	103	48	46.6%	344	224	65.1%
2020	307	224	73.0%	184	91	49.5%	491	315	64.2%
2021	379	290	76.5%	210	98	46.7%	589	388	65.9%
2022	383	322	84.1%	162	69	42.6%	545	391	71.7%
2023	298	252	84.6%	161	85	52.8%	459	337	73.4%
2024	299	251	83.9%	155	109	70.3%	454	360	79.3%
2025	265	168	63.4%	121	90	74.4%	386	258	66.8%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Aurora Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Aurora Sub-Region		Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Total Children	Placed with All Sibs	%
2019	Traditional	66	31	47.0%	51	8	15.7%	117	39	33.3%
	Kinship	175	145	82.9%	52	40	76.9%	227	185	81.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	241	176	73.0%	103	48	46.6%	344	224	65.1%
2020	Traditional	64	30	46.9%	21	0	0.0%	85	30	35.3%
	Kinship	243	194	79.8%	163	91	55.8%	406	285	70.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	307	224	73.0%	184	91	49.5%	491	315	64.2%
2021	Traditional	61	32	52.5%	45	5	11.1%	106	37	34.9%
	Kinship	318	258	81.1%	165	93	56.4%	483	351	72.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	379	290	76.5%	210	98	46.7%	589	388	65.9%
2022	Traditional	51	35	68.6%	32	0	0.0%	83	35	42.2%
	Kinship	332	287	86.4%	130	69	53.1%	462	356	77.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	383	322	84.1%	162	69	42.6%	545	391	71.7%
2023	Traditional	45	26	57.8%	18	0	0.0%	63	26	41.3%
	Kinship	253	226	89.3%	143	85	59.4%	396	311	78.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	298	252	84.6%	161	85	52.8%	459	337	73.4%
2024	Traditional	42	20	47.6%	28	5	17.9%	70	25	35.7%
	Kinship	257	231	89.9%	127	104	81.9%	384	335	87.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	299	251	83.9%	155	109	70.3%	454	360	79.3%
2025	Traditional	27	7	25.9%	11	2	18.2%	38	9	23.7%
	Kinship	238	161	67.6%	110	88	80.0%	348	249	71.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	265	168	63.4%	121	90	74.4%	386	258	66.8%