CFRC: Data Center: Tables

Definition: Of all children in kinship or traditional foster homes at the end of the fiscal year, the percentage that was placed with their siblings.

Denominator: The number of children in kinship or traditional foster homes at the end of the fiscal year who had siblings in substitute care. 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 at the end of the fiscal year.

Exclusions

Youth aged 18 and older are excluded. Age is calculated as of the last day of each fiscal year (June 30).
Children with no siblings in substitute care 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 September 30, 2025. All indicators are 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 Small Populations
To protect privacy and ensure statistical reliability, when the applicable population is between 1 to 5, the value is displayed as "≤ 5" and the outcome data is masked. If the applicable population is zero, the value is displayed as "0" and the outcome is also masked.

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.

End of Year Placement with Siblings

Of all children in kinship or traditional foster homes at the end of the year, the percentage that was placed with siblings.

Change Measure

Data extracted on September 30, 2025.

Illinois Region Sub-Region County

Cook North Cook Central Cook South Aurora Rockford Champaign Peoria Springfield East St. Louis Marion

| All Children | Placement Type |

Rockford Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Rockford 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	%
2019	430	284	66.0%	189	58	30.7%	619	342	55.3%
2020	436	287	65.8%	194	48	24.7%	630	335	53.2%
2021	474	318	67.1%	179	53	29.6%	653	371	56.8%
2022	372	248	66.7%	210	74	35.2%	582	322	55.3%
2023	380	260	68.4%	151	37	24.5%	531	297	55.9%
2024	358	267	74.6%	164	35	21.3%	522	302	57.9%
2025	291	200	68.7%	105	30	28.6%	396	230	58.1%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Rockford Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Rockford 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	%
2019	Traditional	102	56	54.9%	61	14	23.0%	163	70	42.9%
	Kinship	328	228	69.5%	128	44	34.4%	456	272	59.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	430	284	66.0%	189	58	30.7%	619	342	55.3%
2020	Traditional	106	62	58.5%	67	5	7.5%	173	67	38.7%
	Kinship	330	225	68.2%	127	43	33.9%	457	268	58.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	436	287	65.8%	194	48	24.7%	630	335	53.2%
2021	Traditional	98	56	57.1%	55	4	7.3%	153	60	39.2%
	Kinship	376	262	69.7%	124	49	39.5%	500	311	62.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	474	318	67.1%	179	53	29.6%	653	371	56.8%
2022	Traditional	79	43	54.4%	74	20	27.0%	153	63	41.2%
	Kinship	293	205	70.0%	136	54	39.7%	429	259	60.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	372	248	66.7%	210	74	35.2%	582	322	55.3%
2023	Traditional	100	56	56.0%	56	3	5.4%	156	59	37.8%
	Kinship	280	204	72.9%	95	34	35.8%	375	238	63.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	380	260	68.4%	151	37	24.5%	531	297	55.9%
2024	Traditional	85	54	63.5%	54	0	0.0%	139	54	38.8%
	Kinship	273	213	78.0%	110	35	31.8%	383	248	64.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	358	267	74.6%	164	35	21.3%	522	302	57.9%
2025	Traditional	90	48	53.3%	30	0	0.0%	120	48	40.0%
	Kinship	201	152	75.6%	75	30	40.0%	276	182	65.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	291	200	68.7%	105	30	28.6%	396	230	58.1%