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 |

Springfield Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Springfield 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	326	299	91.7%	124	39	31.5%	450	338	75.1%
2020	336	258	76.8%	200	90	45.0%	536	348	64.9%
2021	319	268	84.0%	133	71	53.4%	452	339	75.0%
2022	238	185	77.7%	97	61	62.9%	335	246	73.4%
2023	314	257	81.8%	138	68	49.3%	452	325	71.9%
2024	275	210	76.4%	125	53	42.4%	400	263	65.8%
2025	226	142	62.8%	73	33	45.2%	299	175	58.5%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Springfield Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Springfield 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	79	61	77.2%	29	4	13.8%	108	65	60.2%
	Kinship	247	238	96.4%	95	35	36.8%	342	273	79.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	326	299	91.7%	124	39	31.5%	450	338	75.1%
2020	Traditional	86	50	58.1%	48	0	0.0%	134	50	37.3%
	Kinship	250	208	83.2%	152	90	59.2%	402	298	74.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	336	258	76.8%	200	90	45.0%	536	348	64.9%
2021	Traditional	47	24	51.1%	10	4	40.0%	57	28	49.1%
	Kinship	272	244	89.7%	123	67	54.5%	395	311	78.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	319	268	84.0%	133	71	53.4%	452	339	75.0%
2022	Traditional	44	18	40.9%	14	0	0.0%	58	18	31.0%
	Kinship	194	167	86.1%	83	61	73.5%	277	228	82.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	238	185	77.7%	97	61	62.9%	335	246	73.4%
2023	Traditional	47	25	53.2%	11	4	36.4%	58	29	50.0%
	Kinship	267	232	86.9%	127	64	50.4%	394	296	75.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	314	257	81.8%	138	68	49.3%	452	325	71.9%
2024	Traditional	43	20	46.5%	38	9	23.7%	81	29	35.8%
	Kinship	232	190	81.9%	87	44	50.6%	319	234	73.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	275	210	76.4%	125	53	42.4%	400	263	65.8%
2025	Traditional	40	19	47.5%	12	4	33.3%	52	23	44.2%
	Kinship	186	123	66.1%	61	29	47.5%	247	152	61.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	226	142	62.8%	73	33	45.2%	299	175	58.5%