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 |

Champaign Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Champaign 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	406	362	89.2%	198	111	56.1%	604	473	78.3%
2020	333	256	76.9%	201	104	51.7%	534	360	67.4%
2021	406	349	86.0%	171	94	55.0%	577	443	76.8%
2022	343	272	79.3%	103	65	63.1%	446	337	75.6%
2023	306	227	74.2%	181	106	58.6%	487	333	68.4%
2024	311	239	76.8%	149	74	49.7%	460	313	68.0%
2025	263	168	63.9%	112	42	37.5%	375	210	56.0%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Champaign Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Champaign 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	71	55	77.5%	22	4	18.2%	93	59	63.4%
	Kinship	335	307	91.6%	176	107	60.8%	511	414	81.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	406	362	89.2%	198	111	56.1%	604	473	78.3%
2020	Traditional	56	27	48.2%	21	4	19.0%	77	31	40.3%
	Kinship	277	229	82.7%	180	100	55.6%	457	329	72.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	333	256	76.9%	201	104	51.7%	534	360	67.4%
2021	Traditional	46	31	67.4%	27	4	14.8%	73	35	47.9%
	Kinship	360	318	88.3%	144	90	62.5%	504	408	81.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	406	349	86.0%	171	94	55.0%	577	443	76.8%
2022	Traditional	53	27	50.9%	14	0	0.0%	67	27	40.3%
	Kinship	290	245	84.5%	89	65	73.0%	379	310	81.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	343	272	79.3%	103	65	63.1%	446	337	75.6%
2023	Traditional	44	18	40.9%	4	0	0.0%	48	18	37.5%
	Kinship	262	209	79.8%	177	106	59.9%	439	315	71.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	306	227	74.2%	181	106	58.6%	487	333	68.4%
2024	Traditional	44	24	54.5%	29	4	13.8%	73	28	38.4%
	Kinship	267	215	80.5%	120	70	58.3%	387	285	73.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	311	239	76.8%	149	74	49.7%	460	313	68.0%
2025	Traditional	45	20	44.4%	11	0	0.0%	56	20	35.7%
	Kinship	218	148	67.9%	101	42	41.6%	319	190	59.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	263	168	63.9%	112	42	37.5%	375	210	56.0%