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 |

East St. Louis Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
East St. Louis 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	220	168	76.4%	103	52	50.5%	323	220	68.1%
2019	294	240	81.6%	120	47	39.2%	414	287	69.3%
2020	248	205	82.7%	100	32	32.0%	348	237	68.1%
2021	261	212	81.2%	95	45	47.4%	356	257	72.2%
2022	224	185	82.6%	90	55	61.1%	314	240	76.4%
2023	227	168	74.0%	119	47	39.5%	346	215	62.1%
2024	200	162	81.0%	121	52	43.0%	321	214	66.7%
2025*	94	77	81.9%	46	21	45.7%	140	98	70.0%

| All Children | Placement Type |

East St. Louis Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
East St. Louis 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	39	25	64.1%	16	0	0.0%	55	25	45.5%
	Kinship	181	143	79.0%	87	52	59.8%	268	195	72.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	220	168	76.4%	103	52	50.5%	323	220	68.1%
2019	Traditional	40	23	57.5%	18	0	0.0%	58	23	39.7%
	Kinship	254	217	85.4%	102	47	46.1%	356	264	74.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	294	240	81.6%	120	47	39.2%	414	287	69.3%
2020	Traditional	39	22	56.4%	15	0	0.0%	54	22	40.7%
	Kinship	209	183	87.6%	85	32	37.6%	294	215	73.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	248	205	82.7%	100	32	32.0%	348	237	68.1%
2021	Traditional	40	23	57.5%	16	4	25.0%	56	27	48.2%
	Kinship	221	189	85.5%	79	41	51.9%	300	230	76.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	261	212	81.2%	95	45	47.4%	356	257	72.2%
2022	Traditional	20	13	65.0%	6	0	0.0%	26	13	50.0%
	Kinship	204	172	84.3%	84	55	65.5%	288	227	78.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	224	185	82.6%	90	55	61.1%	314	240	76.4%
2023	Traditional	25	10	40.0%	17	0	0.0%	42	10	23.8%
	Kinship	202	158	78.2%	102	47	46.1%	304	205	67.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	227	168	74.0%	119	47	39.5%	346	215	62.1%
2024	Traditional	17	11	64.7%	12	2	16.7%	29	13	44.8%
	Kinship	183	151	82.5%	109	50	45.9%	292	201	68.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	200	162	81.0%	121	52	43.0%	321	214	66.7%
2025*	Traditional	11	10	90.9%	11	4	36.4%	22	14	63.6%
	Kinship	83	67	80.7%	35	17	48.6%	118	84	71.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	94	77	81.9%	46	21	45.7%	140	98	70.0%