CFRC: Data Center: Tables

Definition: Initial placement types for children entering substitute care during the year. Initial placement types include home of parents (HMP), kinship foster homes, traditional foster homes, specialized foster homes, emergency shelters or emergency foster care, and group homes or institutions.

The Kinship Foster Home category includes Delegated Relative Authority (DRA) and Home of Relative (HMR). The Traditional Foster Home category includes Foster Home Boarding DCFS (FHB), Foster Home Indian (FHI), Foster Home Boarding Private Agency (FHP), and Foster Home Adoption (FHA). The Specialized Foster Home category includes Foster Home Specialized (FHS) and Foster Home Treatment (FHT). The Emergency Shelter or Emergency Foster Care category includes Youth Emergency Shelters (YES), Agency Foster Care/Shelter Care, Emergency Shelters Institutions, Emergency Shelters Group Homes, and Emergency Foster Care (EFC). The Group Home or Institution category includes Group Home (GRH), Detention Facility/Jail (DET), Institution DCFS (ICF), Institution Department of Corrections (IDC), Institution Department of Mental Health (IMH), Institution Private Child Care Facility (IPA), Institution Rehabilitation Services (IRS), and Nursing Care Facility (NCF).

Exclusions
Children who enter care and stay 7 days or fewer are excluded.

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 Race
If the value of the primary race is Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders, 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.

The data used to compute this measure come from two Illinois DCFS data systems: the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) and the Child and Youth Centered Information System (CYCIS). Both the SACWIS data and the CYCIS data were extracted on December 31, 2024. They were calculated based on the state fiscal year, which spans the 12-month period from July 1 to June 30.

Initial Placement Types

Initial placement types for children entering substitute care during the year.

Change Measure See Data in Charts

Data extracted on December 31, 2024.

Illinois Region Sub-Region County

Cook County		Initial Placement Type
		Home of Parents		Kinship Foster Home		Traditional Foster Home		Specialized Foster Home		Emergency Shelter or Emergency Foster Home		Group Home		Institution		Total Children Entering Substitute Care
		N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	Total Children Entering Substitute Care
2018	5	0.4%	776	57.4%	315	23.3%	91	6.7%	42	3.1%	14	1.0%	110	8.1%	1,353
2019	10	0.8%	786	63.2%	260	20.9%	66	5.3%	38	3.1%	7	0.6%	77	6.2%	1,244
2020	44	2.5%	1,251	70.6%	269	15.2%	37	2.1%	54	3.0%	8	0.5%	110	6.2%	1,773
2021	19	1.5%	947	73.1%	201	15.5%	38	2.9%	25	1.9%	4	0.3%	61	4.7%	1,295
2022	11	1.1%	712	70.6%	193	19.1%	20	2.0%	20	2.0%	2	0.2%	51	5.1%	1,009
2023	6	0.6%	639	67.8%	195	20.7%	23	2.4%	26	2.8%	3	0.3%	50	5.3%	942
2024	12	1.4%	586	68.3%	151	17.6%	20	2.3%	40	4.7%	4	0.5%	45	5.2%	858
2025*	2	0.5%	256	66.7%	70	18.2%	4	1.0%	32	8.3%	0	0.0%	20	5.2%	384

Initial Placement Types

Note: For county-level data, if you are interested in breakdowns of race, age, and gender, please email danzap@illinois.edu.