The Child Care Policy Research Consortium is a national alliance of research projects sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Consortium's purpose is to help ACF increase the national capacity for sound child care research, explore the latest in research findings, questions and methods, engage in problem-solving around challenging issues and questions, and identify future research needs. The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium (CCPRC) was held from October 23 to 25, 2012, in Bethesda, Maryland. This report summarizes the meeting.