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 Northern Central Southern

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook 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	478	342	71.5%	253	137	54.2%	731	479	65.5%
2020	624	495	79.3%	429	185	43.1%	1,053	680	64.6%
2021	520	418	80.4%	239	103	43.1%	759	521	68.6%
2022	359	265	73.8%	173	82	47.4%	532	347	65.2%
2023	313	235	75.1%	234	98	41.9%	547	333	60.9%
2024	304	235	77.3%	150	90	60.0%	454	325	71.6%
2025	339	220	64.9%	201	92	45.8%	540	312	57.8%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook 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	89	49	55.1%	33	0	0.0%	122	49	40.2%
	Kinship	389	293	75.3%	220	137	62.3%	609	430	70.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	478	342	71.5%	253	137	54.2%	731	479	65.5%
2020	Traditional	73	39	53.4%	52	5	9.6%	125	44	35.2%
	Kinship	551	456	82.8%	377	180	47.7%	928	636	68.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	624	495	79.3%	429	185	43.1%	1,053	680	64.6%
2021	Traditional	65	38	58.5%	17	0	0.0%	82	38	46.3%
	Kinship	455	380	83.5%	222	103	46.4%	677	483	71.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	520	418	80.4%	239	103	43.1%	759	521	68.6%
2022	Traditional	56	26	46.4%	27	8	29.6%	83	34	41.0%
	Kinship	303	239	78.9%	146	74	50.7%	449	313	69.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	359	265	73.8%	173	82	47.4%	532	347	65.2%
2023	Traditional	50	31	62.0%	32	4	12.5%	82	35	42.7%
	Kinship	263	204	77.6%	202	94	46.5%	465	298	64.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	313	235	75.1%	234	98	41.9%	547	333	60.9%
2024	Traditional	42	21	50.0%	7	0	0.0%	49	21	42.9%
	Kinship	262	214	81.7%	143	90	62.9%	405	304	75.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	304	235	77.3%	150	90	60.0%	454	325	71.6%
2025	Traditional	37	23	62.2%	20	0	0.0%	57	23	40.4%
	Kinship	302	197	65.2%	181	92	50.8%	483	289	59.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	339	220	64.9%	201	92	45.8%	540	312	57.8%