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 |

Peoria Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Peoria 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	348	274	78.7%	170	98	57.6%	518	372	71.8%
2020	435	347	79.8%	250	109	43.6%	685	456	66.6%
2021	422	332	78.7%	172	90	52.3%	594	422	71.0%
2022	333	272	81.7%	146	69	47.3%	479	341	71.2%
2023	314	234	74.5%	128	73	57.0%	442	307	69.5%
2024	355	264	74.4%	156	84	53.8%	511	348	68.1%
2025	307	205	66.8%	161	70	43.5%	468	275	58.8%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Peoria Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Peoria 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	61	41	67.2%	43	8	18.6%	104	49	47.1%
	Kinship	287	233	81.2%	127	90	70.9%	414	323	78.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	348	274	78.7%	170	98	57.6%	518	372	71.8%
2020	Traditional	62	33	53.2%	32	2	6.3%	94	35	37.2%
	Kinship	373	314	84.2%	218	107	49.1%	591	421	71.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	435	347	79.8%	250	109	43.6%	685	456	66.6%
2021	Traditional	63	30	47.6%	12	0	0.0%	75	30	40.0%
	Kinship	359	302	84.1%	160	90	56.3%	519	392	75.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	422	332	78.7%	172	90	52.3%	594	422	71.0%
2022	Traditional	32	22	68.8%	24	0	0.0%	56	22	39.3%
	Kinship	301	250	83.1%	122	69	56.6%	423	319	75.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	333	272	81.7%	146	69	47.3%	479	341	71.2%
2023	Traditional	63	38	60.3%	14	0	0.0%	77	38	49.4%
	Kinship	251	196	78.1%	114	73	64.0%	365	269	73.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	314	234	74.5%	128	73	57.0%	442	307	69.5%
2024	Traditional	46	22	47.8%	19	0	0.0%	65	22	33.8%
	Kinship	309	242	78.3%	137	84	61.3%	446	326	73.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	355	264	74.4%	156	84	53.8%	511	348	68.1%
2025	Traditional	36	19	52.8%	27	9	33.3%	63	28	44.4%
	Kinship	271	186	68.6%	134	61	45.5%	405	247	61.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	307	205	66.8%	161	70	43.5%	468	275	58.8%