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 |

Springfield Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Springfield 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	288	224	77.8%	118	37	31.4%	406	261	64.3%
2019	324	295	91.0%	120	39	32.5%	444	334	75.2%
2020	345	265	76.8%	200	90	45.0%	545	355	65.1%
2021	312	261	83.7%	125	63	50.4%	437	324	74.1%
2022	232	178	76.7%	105	61	58.1%	337	239	70.9%
2023	314	258	82.2%	126	69	54.8%	440	327	74.3%
2024	282	218	77.3%	125	53	42.4%	407	271	66.6%
2025*	116	86	74.1%	39	17	43.6%	155	103	66.5%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Springfield Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Springfield 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	76	52	68.4%	50	15	30.0%	126	67	53.2%
	Kinship	212	172	81.1%	68	22	32.4%	280	194	69.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	288	224	77.8%	118	37	31.4%	406	261	64.3%
2019	Traditional	82	64	78.0%	29	4	13.8%	111	68	61.3%
	Kinship	242	231	95.5%	91	35	38.5%	333	266	79.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	324	295	91.0%	120	39	32.5%	444	334	75.2%
2020	Traditional	88	50	56.8%	48	0	0.0%	136	50	36.8%
	Kinship	257	215	83.7%	152	90	59.2%	409	305	74.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	345	265	76.8%	200	90	45.0%	545	355	65.1%
2021	Traditional	41	22	53.7%	10	4	40.0%	51	26	51.0%
	Kinship	271	239	88.2%	115	59	51.3%	386	298	77.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	312	261	83.7%	125	63	50.4%	437	324	74.1%
2022	Traditional	44	18	40.9%	14	0	0.0%	58	18	31.0%
	Kinship	188	160	85.1%	91	61	67.0%	279	221	79.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	232	178	76.7%	105	61	58.1%	337	239	70.9%
2023	Traditional	47	25	53.2%	11	4	36.4%	58	29	50.0%
	Kinship	267	233	87.3%	115	65	56.5%	382	298	78.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	314	258	82.2%	126	69	54.8%	440	327	74.3%
2024	Traditional	47	24	51.1%	39	9	23.1%	86	33	38.4%
	Kinship	235	194	82.6%	86	44	51.2%	321	238	74.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	282	218	77.3%	125	53	42.4%	407	271	66.6%
2025*	Traditional	21	10	47.6%	7	0	0.0%	28	10	35.7%
	Kinship	95	76	80.0%	32	17	53.1%	127	93	73.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	116	86	74.1%	39	17	43.6%	155	103	66.5%