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 |

Cook Central Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook Central 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	132	107	81.1%	52	14	26.9%	184	121	65.8%
2019	108	66	61.1%	56	25	44.6%	164	91	55.5%
2020	182	148	81.3%	105	36	34.3%	287	184	64.1%
2021	120	94	78.3%	91	31	34.1%	211	125	59.2%
2022	97	71	73.2%	36	14	38.9%	133	85	63.9%
2023	65	46	70.8%	32	16	50.0%	97	62	63.9%
2024	66	50	75.8%	23	13	56.5%	89	63	70.8%
2025*	30	23	76.7%	20	16	80.0%	50	39	78.0%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook Central Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook Central 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	23	13	56.5%	7	0	0.0%	30	13	43.3%
	Kinship	109	94	86.2%	45	14	31.1%	154	108	70.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	132	107	81.1%	52	14	26.9%	184	121	65.8%
2019	Traditional	30	19	63.3%	6	0	0.0%	36	19	52.8%
	Kinship	78	47	60.3%	50	25	50.0%	128	72	56.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	108	66	61.1%	56	25	44.6%	164	91	55.5%
2020	Traditional	23	9	39.1%	17	0	0.0%	40	9	22.5%
	Kinship	159	139	87.4%	88	36	40.9%	247	175	70.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	182	148	81.3%	105	36	34.3%	287	184	64.1%
2021	Traditional	28	19	67.9%	10	0	0.0%	38	19	50.0%
	Kinship	92	75	81.5%	81	31	38.3%	173	106	61.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	120	94	78.3%	91	31	34.1%	211	125	59.2%
2022	Traditional	17	10	58.8%	5	0	0.0%	22	10	45.5%
	Kinship	80	61	76.3%	31	14	45.2%	111	75	67.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	97	71	73.2%	36	14	38.9%	133	85	63.9%
2023	Traditional	5	3	60.0%	5	0	0.0%	10	3	30.0%
	Kinship	60	43	71.7%	27	16	59.3%	87	59	67.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	65	46	70.8%	32	16	50.0%	97	62	63.9%
2024	Traditional	9	5	55.6%	0	0	-	9	5	55.6%
	Kinship	57	45	78.9%	23	13	56.5%	80	58	72.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	66	50	75.8%	23	13	56.5%	89	63	70.8%
2025*	Traditional	1	0	0.0%	0	0	-	1	0	0.0%
	Kinship	29	23	79.3%	20	16	80.0%	49	39	79.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	30	23	76.7%	20	16	80.0%	50	39	78.0%