In Southwest Detroit, the number of children who need child care vastly outnumber available licensed child care slots. Enhancing informal child care, unlicensed care provided by family, friends, and neighbors, is a promising strategy to improve child outcomes for children experiencing vulnerability by providing them with access to high quality early care and education in home-based settings. The W.K Kellogg Foundation, three community partners, and researchers formed a collaborative to develop, test, and implement strategies to enhance informal child care by adhering to the key principles of community based participatory research (CBPR). Focusing on the community context and the lived experiences of the partners, the project works to ensure that participant voices are incorporated into the design and implementation of the strategies.