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 |

Marion Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Marion 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	336	253	75.3%	115	63	54.8%	451	316	70.1%
2019	436	340	78.0%	189	96	50.8%	625	436	69.8%
2020	443	334	75.4%	147	94	63.9%	590	428	72.5%
2021	377	311	82.5%	160	66	41.3%	537	377	70.2%
2022	318	262	82.4%	157	73	46.5%	475	335	70.5%
2023	258	189	73.3%	144	70	48.6%	402	259	64.4%
2024	308	235	76.3%	140	62	44.3%	448	297	66.3%
2025*	148	125	84.5%	72	41	56.9%	220	166	75.5%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Marion Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Marion 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	54	34	63.0%	20	4	20.0%	74	38	51.4%
	Kinship	282	219	77.7%	95	59	62.1%	377	278	73.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	336	253	75.3%	115	63	54.8%	451	316	70.1%
2019	Traditional	57	27	47.4%	19	0	0.0%	76	27	35.5%
	Kinship	379	313	82.6%	170	96	56.5%	549	409	74.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	436	340	78.0%	189	96	50.8%	625	436	69.8%
2020	Traditional	64	34	53.1%	20	9	45.0%	84	43	51.2%
	Kinship	379	300	79.2%	127	85	66.9%	506	385	76.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	443	334	75.4%	147	94	63.9%	590	428	72.5%
2021	Traditional	31	14	45.2%	13	3	23.1%	44	17	38.6%
	Kinship	346	297	85.8%	147	63	42.9%	493	360	73.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	377	311	82.5%	160	66	41.3%	537	377	70.2%
2022	Traditional	26	15	57.7%	16	0	0.0%	42	15	35.7%
	Kinship	292	247	84.6%	141	73	51.8%	433	320	73.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	318	262	82.4%	157	73	46.5%	475	335	70.5%
2023	Traditional	38	18	47.4%	9	0	0.0%	47	18	38.3%
	Kinship	220	171	77.7%	135	70	51.9%	355	241	67.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	258	189	73.3%	144	70	48.6%	402	259	64.4%
2024	Traditional	18	7	38.9%	10	0	0.0%	28	7	25.0%
	Kinship	290	228	78.6%	130	62	47.7%	420	290	69.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	308	235	76.3%	140	62	44.3%	448	297	66.3%
2025*	Traditional	8	6	75.0%	6	4	66.7%	14	10	71.4%
	Kinship	140	119	85.0%	66	37	56.1%	206	156	75.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	148	125	84.5%	72	41	56.9%	220	166	75.5%