Toni Porter has long experience as a researcher on home-based child care (HBCC). She is currently the Co-Principal Investigator with Juliet Bromer on the Erikson Institute three-year National Study of Family Child Care Networks, which has examined the national landscape of family child care networks, the services networks offer to providers and how networks implement these services. With Bromer, Porter is a co-principal investigator on the Multi-State Study of Family Child Care Decline and Supply. Porter is a also key consultant on the federally-funded Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation Home-based Child Care Supply and Quality project. With Bromer, Porter has produced a brief on staffed family child care for the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance and she is a co-author on a brief on conceptualizing quality in HBCC. She has also conducted studies of HBCC quality, including one of the few evaluations of the effects of network participation on family child care quality. Porter has made numerous presentations at national conferences including NAFCC National Conference, the Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium Annual Research Meeting, and the National Research Conference on Early Childhood. Porter applies adult learning principles to her presentations, using interactive approaches such as small group discussions and exercises that provide opportunities for participants to relate information to their own experiences and to learn from each other.
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Family Child Care Decline and Supply: A Research Perspective