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 |

Cook North Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook North 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	151	120	79.5%	65	38	58.5%	216	158	73.1%
2020	152	140	92.1%	124	61	49.2%	276	201	72.8%
2021	129	113	87.6%	40	16	40.0%	169	129	76.3%
2022	101	66	65.3%	39	18	46.2%	140	84	60.0%
2023	92	69	75.0%	62	30	48.4%	154	99	64.3%
2024	90	62	68.9%	32	23	71.9%	122	85	69.7%
2025	133	94	70.7%	64	37	57.8%	197	131	66.5%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook North Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook North 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	27	17	63.0%	4	0	0.0%	31	17	54.8%
	Kinship	124	103	83.1%	61	38	62.3%	185	141	76.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	151	120	79.5%	65	38	58.5%	216	158	73.1%
2020	Traditional	11	8	72.7%	9	0	0.0%	20	8	40.0%
	Kinship	141	132	93.6%	115	61	53.0%	256	193	75.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	152	140	92.1%	124	61	49.2%	276	201	72.8%
2021	Traditional	10	8	80.0%	1	0	0.0%	11	8	72.7%
	Kinship	119	105	88.2%	39	16	41.0%	158	121	76.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	129	113	87.6%	40	16	40.0%	169	129	76.3%
2022	Traditional	18	4	22.2%	5	0	0.0%	23	4	17.4%
	Kinship	83	62	74.7%	34	18	52.9%	117	80	68.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	101	66	65.3%	39	18	46.2%	140	84	60.0%
2023	Traditional	16	9	56.3%	9	0	0.0%	25	9	36.0%
	Kinship	76	60	78.9%	53	30	56.6%	129	90	69.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	92	69	75.0%	62	30	48.4%	154	99	64.3%
2024	Traditional	17	6	35.3%	4	0	0.0%	21	6	28.6%
	Kinship	73	56	76.7%	28	23	82.1%	101	79	78.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	90	62	68.9%	32	23	71.9%	122	85	69.7%
2025	Traditional	11	9	81.8%	8	0	0.0%	19	9	47.4%
	Kinship	122	85	69.7%	56	37	66.1%	178	122	68.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	133	94	70.7%	64	37	57.8%	197	131	66.5%