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 Northern Central Southern

| All Children | Placement Type |

Southern Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Southern 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	1,442	1,007	69.8%	582	174	29.9%	2,024	1,181	58.3%
2020	1,640	1,122	68.4%	643	226	35.1%	2,283	1,348	59.0%
2021	1,643	1,110	67.6%	743	235	31.6%	2,386	1,345	56.4%
2022	1,688	1,113	65.9%	700	195	27.9%	2,388	1,308	54.8%
2023	1,563	986	63.1%	698	174	24.9%	2,261	1,160	51.3%
2024	1,510	965	63.9%	641	139	21.7%	2,151	1,104	51.3%
2025	1,171	782	66.8%	483	149	30.8%	1,654	931	56.3%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Southern Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Southern 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	348	203	58.3%	144	17	11.8%	492	220	44.7%
	Kinship	1,094	804	73.5%	438	157	35.8%	1,532	961	62.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	1,442	1,007	69.8%	582	174	29.9%	2,024	1,181	58.3%
2020	Traditional	386	210	54.4%	167	24	14.4%	553	234	42.3%
	Kinship	1,254	912	72.7%	476	202	42.4%	1,730	1,114	64.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	1,640	1,122	68.4%	643	226	35.1%	2,283	1,348	59.0%
2021	Traditional	370	199	53.8%	196	25	12.8%	566	224	39.6%
	Kinship	1,273	911	71.6%	547	210	38.4%	1,820	1,121	61.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	1,643	1,110	67.6%	743	235	31.6%	2,386	1,345	56.4%
2022	Traditional	388	203	52.3%	187	20	10.7%	575	223	38.8%
	Kinship	1,300	910	70.0%	513	175	34.1%	1,813	1,085	59.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	1,688	1,113	65.9%	700	195	27.9%	2,388	1,308	54.8%
2023	Traditional	354	176	49.7%	170	12	7.1%	524	188	35.9%
	Kinship	1,209	810	67.0%	528	162	30.7%	1,737	972	56.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	1,563	986	63.1%	698	174	24.9%	2,261	1,160	51.3%
2024	Traditional	322	162	50.3%	132	6	4.5%	454	168	37.0%
	Kinship	1,188	803	67.6%	509	133	26.1%	1,697	936	55.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	1,510	965	63.9%	641	139	21.7%	2,151	1,104	51.3%
2025	Traditional	260	142	54.6%	94	7	7.4%	354	149	42.1%
	Kinship	911	640	70.3%	389	142	36.5%	1,300	782	60.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	1,171	782	66.8%	483	149	30.8%	1,654	931	56.3%