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 |

East St. Louis Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
East St. Louis 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	294	244	83.0%	131	54	41.2%	425	298	70.1%
2020	253	204	80.6%	109	36	33.0%	362	240	66.3%
2021	267	218	81.6%	106	41	38.7%	373	259	69.4%
2022	237	194	81.9%	99	60	60.6%	336	254	75.6%
2023	262	203	77.5%	128	46	35.9%	390	249	63.8%
2024	206	168	81.6%	130	60	46.2%	336	228	67.9%
2025	184	136	73.9%	112	54	48.2%	296	190	64.2%

| All Children | Placement Type |

East St. Louis Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
East St. Louis 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	37	21	56.8%	19	0	0.0%	56	21	37.5%
	Kinship	257	223	86.8%	112	54	48.2%	369	277	75.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	294	244	83.0%	131	54	41.2%	425	298	70.1%
2020	Traditional	39	22	56.4%	15	0	0.0%	54	22	40.7%
	Kinship	214	182	85.0%	94	36	38.3%	308	218	70.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	253	204	80.6%	109	36	33.0%	362	240	66.3%
2021	Traditional	40	23	57.5%	18	4	22.2%	58	27	46.6%
	Kinship	227	195	85.9%	88	37	42.0%	315	232	73.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	267	218	81.6%	106	41	38.7%	373	259	69.4%
2022	Traditional	20	13	65.0%	6	0	0.0%	26	13	50.0%
	Kinship	217	181	83.4%	93	60	64.5%	310	241	77.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	237	194	81.9%	99	60	60.6%	336	254	75.6%
2023	Traditional	27	10	37.0%	17	0	0.0%	44	10	22.7%
	Kinship	235	193	82.1%	111	46	41.4%	346	239	69.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	262	203	77.5%	128	46	35.9%	390	249	63.8%
2024	Traditional	17	11	64.7%	13	2	15.4%	30	13	43.3%
	Kinship	189	157	83.1%	117	58	49.6%	306	215	70.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	206	168	81.6%	130	60	46.2%	336	228	67.9%
2025	Traditional	25	17	68.0%	19	4	21.1%	44	21	47.7%
	Kinship	159	119	74.8%	93	50	53.8%	252	169	67.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	184	136	73.9%	112	54	48.2%	296	190	64.2%