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 |

Southern Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Southern 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	710	561	79.0%	300	138	46.0%	1,010	699	69.2%
2020	683	530	77.6%	247	126	51.0%	930	656	70.5%
2021	614	499	81.3%	250	107	42.8%	864	606	70.1%
2022	526	435	82.7%	248	125	50.4%	774	560	72.4%
2023	484	356	73.6%	258	112	43.4%	742	468	63.1%
2024	497	389	78.3%	262	114	43.5%	759	503	66.3%
2025	421	303	72.0%	234	110	47.0%	655	413	63.1%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Southern Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Southern 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	91	45	49.5%	37	0	0.0%	128	45	35.2%
	Kinship	619	516	83.4%	263	138	52.5%	882	654	74.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	710	561	79.0%	300	138	46.0%	1,010	699	69.2%
2020	Traditional	103	56	54.4%	35	9	25.7%	138	65	47.1%
	Kinship	580	474	81.7%	212	117	55.2%	792	591	74.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	683	530	77.6%	247	126	51.0%	930	656	70.5%
2021	Traditional	71	37	52.1%	29	7	24.1%	100	44	44.0%
	Kinship	543	462	85.1%	221	100	45.2%	764	562	73.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	614	499	81.3%	250	107	42.8%	864	606	70.1%
2022	Traditional	45	28	62.2%	22	0	0.0%	67	28	41.8%
	Kinship	481	407	84.6%	226	125	55.3%	707	532	75.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	526	435	82.7%	248	125	50.4%	774	560	72.4%
2023	Traditional	65	28	43.1%	26	0	0.0%	91	28	30.8%
	Kinship	419	328	78.3%	232	112	48.3%	651	440	67.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	484	356	73.6%	258	112	43.4%	742	468	63.1%
2024	Traditional	35	18	51.4%	23	2	8.7%	58	20	34.5%
	Kinship	462	371	80.3%	239	112	46.9%	701	483	68.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	497	389	78.3%	262	114	43.5%	759	503	66.3%
2025	Traditional	49	32	65.3%	26	8	30.8%	75	40	53.3%
	Kinship	372	271	72.8%	208	102	49.0%	580	373	64.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	421	303	72.0%	234	110	47.0%	655	413	63.1%