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 South Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook South 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	190	127	66.8%	101	56	55.4%	291	183	62.9%
2020	270	198	73.3%	187	84	44.9%	457	282	61.7%
2021	220	169	76.8%	95	34	35.8%	315	203	64.4%
2022	166	125	75.3%	93	42	45.2%	259	167	64.5%
2023	134	112	83.6%	132	55	41.7%	266	167	62.8%
2024	114	88	77.2%	63	33	52.4%	177	121	68.4%
2025	110	67	60.9%	73	21	28.8%	183	88	48.1%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook South Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook South 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	31	11	35.5%	8	0	0.0%	39	11	28.2%
	Kinship	159	116	73.0%	93	56	60.2%	252	172	68.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	190	127	66.8%	101	56	55.4%	291	183	62.9%
2020	Traditional	35	20	57.1%	30	5	16.7%	65	25	38.5%
	Kinship	235	178	75.7%	157	79	50.3%	392	257	65.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	270	198	73.3%	187	84	44.9%	457	282	61.7%
2021	Traditional	27	17	63.0%	6	0	0.0%	33	17	51.5%
	Kinship	193	152	78.8%	89	34	38.2%	282	186	66.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	220	169	76.8%	95	34	35.8%	315	203	64.4%
2022	Traditional	24	18	75.0%	22	8	36.4%	46	26	56.5%
	Kinship	142	107	75.4%	71	34	47.9%	213	141	66.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	166	125	75.3%	93	42	45.2%	259	167	64.5%
2023	Traditional	21	15	71.4%	22	4	18.2%	43	19	44.2%
	Kinship	113	97	85.8%	110	51	46.4%	223	148	66.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	134	112	83.6%	132	55	41.7%	266	167	62.8%
2024	Traditional	16	10	62.5%	3	0	0.0%	19	10	52.6%
	Kinship	98	78	79.6%	60	33	55.0%	158	111	70.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	114	88	77.2%	63	33	52.4%	177	121	68.4%
2025	Traditional	15	10	66.7%	12	0	0.0%	27	10	37.0%
	Kinship	95	57	60.0%	61	21	34.4%	156	78	50.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	110	67	60.9%	73	21	28.8%	183	88	48.1%