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 North Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook North 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	134	101	75.4%	61	34	55.7%	195	135	69.2%
2019	114	101	88.6%	58	46	79.3%	172	147	85.5%
2020	150	121	80.7%	107	54	50.5%	257	175	68.1%
2021	143	125	87.4%	27	8	29.6%	170	133	78.2%
2022	111	76	68.5%	45	22	48.9%	156	98	62.8%
2023	102	76	74.5%	42	22	52.4%	144	98	68.1%
2024	97	73	75.3%	58	38	65.5%	155	111	71.6%
2025*	36	28	77.8%	23	4	17.4%	59	32	54.2%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook North Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook North 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	38	17	44.7%	11	0	0.0%	49	17	34.7%
	Kinship	96	84	87.5%	50	34	68.0%	146	118	80.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	134	101	75.4%	61	34	55.7%	195	135	69.2%
2019	Traditional	23	17	73.9%	12	0	0.0%	35	17	48.6%
	Kinship	91	84	92.3%	46	46	100.0%	137	130	94.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	114	101	88.6%	58	46	79.3%	172	147	85.5%
2020	Traditional	17	13	76.5%	6	0	0.0%	23	13	56.5%
	Kinship	133	108	81.2%	101	54	53.5%	234	162	69.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	150	121	80.7%	107	54	50.5%	257	175	68.1%
2021	Traditional	10	6	60.0%	1	0	0.0%	11	6	54.5%
	Kinship	133	119	89.5%	26	8	30.8%	159	127	79.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	143	125	87.4%	27	8	29.6%	170	133	78.2%
2022	Traditional	24	4	16.7%	11	4	36.4%	35	8	22.9%
	Kinship	87	72	82.8%	34	18	52.9%	121	90	74.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	111	76	68.5%	45	22	48.9%	156	98	62.8%
2023	Traditional	17	9	52.9%	9	0	0.0%	26	9	34.6%
	Kinship	85	67	78.8%	33	22	66.7%	118	89	75.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	102	76	74.5%	42	22	52.4%	144	98	68.1%
2024	Traditional	23	12	52.2%	4	0	0.0%	27	12	44.4%
	Kinship	74	61	82.4%	54	38	70.4%	128	99	77.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	97	73	75.3%	58	38	65.5%	155	111	71.6%
2025*	Traditional	3	2	66.7%	12	0	0.0%	15	2	13.3%
	Kinship	33	26	78.8%	11	4	36.4%	44	30	68.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	36	28	77.8%	23	4	17.4%	59	32	54.2%