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 December 31, 2024. All indicators are calculated based on the state fiscal year, which spans the 12-month period from July 1 to June 30. They were 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 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 December 31, 2024.

Illinois Region Sub-Region County

Cook North Cook Central Cook South Aurora Rockford Champaign Peoria Springfield East St. Louis Marion

| All Children | Placement Type |

Aurora Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Aurora 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	%
2018	172	141	82.0%	115	46	40.0%	287	187	65.2%
2019	223	169	75.8%	101	54	53.5%	324	223	68.8%
2020	286	211	73.8%	196	100	51.0%	482	311	64.5%
2021	388	295	76.0%	213	97	45.5%	601	392	65.2%
2022	381	320	84.0%	177	76	42.9%	558	396	71.0%
2023	285	243	85.3%	171	85	49.7%	456	328	71.9%
2024	295	247	83.7%	159	109	68.6%	454	356	78.4%
2025*	97	88	90.7%	50	44	88.0%	147	132	89.8%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Aurora Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Aurora 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	%
2018	Traditional	45	28	62.2%	31	4	12.9%	76	32	42.1%
	Kinship	127	113	89.0%	84	42	50.0%	211	155	73.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	172	141	82.0%	115	46	40.0%	287	187	65.2%
2019	Traditional	56	28	50.0%	39	8	20.5%	95	36	37.9%
	Kinship	167	141	84.4%	62	46	74.2%	229	187	81.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	223	169	75.8%	101	54	53.5%	324	223	68.8%
2020	Traditional	60	27	45.0%	22	0	0.0%	82	27	32.9%
	Kinship	226	184	81.4%	174	100	57.5%	400	284	71.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	286	211	73.8%	196	100	51.0%	482	311	64.5%
2021	Traditional	65	29	44.6%	45	5	11.1%	110	34	30.9%
	Kinship	323	266	82.4%	168	92	54.8%	491	358	72.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	388	295	76.0%	213	97	45.5%	601	392	65.2%
2022	Traditional	45	28	62.2%	36	0	0.0%	81	28	34.6%
	Kinship	336	292	86.9%	141	76	53.9%	477	368	77.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	381	320	84.0%	177	76	42.9%	558	396	71.0%
2023	Traditional	42	26	61.9%	15	0	0.0%	57	26	45.6%
	Kinship	243	217	89.3%	156	85	54.5%	399	302	75.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	285	243	85.3%	171	85	49.7%	456	328	71.9%
2024	Traditional	41	18	43.9%	29	5	17.2%	70	23	32.9%
	Kinship	254	229	90.2%	130	104	80.0%	384	333	86.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	295	247	83.7%	159	109	68.6%	454	356	78.4%
2025*	Traditional	3	2	66.7%	5	0	0.0%	8	2	25.0%
	Kinship	94	86	91.5%	45	44	97.8%	139	130	93.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	97	88	90.7%	50	44	88.0%	147	132	89.8%