Indiana’s Business Voice for Licensed Child Care Operators
Protecting private-sector child care.
Strengthening Indiana’s workforce.
The Indiana Child Care Business Alliance unites licensed child care businesses across Indiana to reduce barriers to growth, educate policymakers, and position child care as essential workforce infrastructure.
Founding Members & Industry Partners
ICCBA is bringing together licensed child care operators and industry leaders to strengthen Indiana’s child care business voice.
A unified business voice for Indiana child care.
Who We Are
Meet the Indiana Child Care Business Alliance
The Indiana Child Care Business Alliance is an operator-led organization created to protect, strengthen, and advance licensed child care businesses across Indiana.
We believe child care is more than a family need. It is economic infrastructure. When child care is stable, parents can work, employers can retain talent, communities can grow, and children can enter school ready to succeed.
ICCBA gives licensed child care operators a unified voice in Indiana’s economic, legislative, and early education future.
How We Help
Policy, Advocacy & Business Support
ICCBA helps licensed child care operators organize, advocate, and protect the future of private-sector early childhood education in Indiana.
Our work focuses on the issues that directly impact child care businesses: voucher stability, insurance reform, licensing modernization, regulatory consistency, workforce development, and fair recognition of child care as essential infrastructure.
We bring operators, employers, policymakers, and community leaders together around one clear message:
Indiana cannot grow its workforce without stable, scalable child care.
Workforce Stability
Child care access helps parents stay employed and helps employers reduce absenteeism and turnover.
Voucher Stability
Indiana families and licensed operators need predictable child care support systems they can plan around.
Insurance Reform
Rising insurance pressure threatens the ability of licensed child care businesses to survive, expand, and serve families.
Regulatory Consistency
Licensed operators need clear, fair, and consistent rules across licensing, inspections, fire safety, and compliance.
Child Care Is Workforce Infrastructure for Indiana
$4.22B
Annual Economic Loss
Indiana loses an estimated $4.22 billion each year because of child care challenges. Indiana Chamber
$3.05B
Employer Impact
Child care-related employee turnover and absenteeism cost Indiana employers an estimated $3.05 billion per year. Indiana Chamber
61%
Current Capacity
Only 61% of Indiana children who need child care can currently be served through existing capacity. Indiana Chamber
57%
Work Disruption
57% of Indiana parents of young children missed work or class at least once in a three-month span because of child care issues. Indiana Chamber
40%
Workforce Exit
40% of parents who experienced employment disruptions reported leaving the workforce because of child care-related issues. Indiana Chamber
$1.17B
Tax Revenue Loss
Indiana misses an estimated $1.17 billion in annual tax revenue because of child care issues. Indiana Chamber
A Stronger Voice for Indiana Child Care
One Issue. Four Audiences. One Economic Reality.
Child care is not just a family issue. It is workforce infrastructure for Indiana’s economy.
Licensed Operators
“ICCBA gives licensed child care businesses a unified voice to protect their centers, reduce barriers to growth, and advocate for fair, consistent policy.”
Indiana Employers
“When child care is unstable, workforce reliability suffers. Supporting child care means supporting employee retention, attendance, and productivity.”
Policymakers
“Child care is workforce infrastructure. Policy decisions made today about funding, licensing, and standards will shape Indiana's economy and workforce for a generation.
Parents & Families
“Reliable child care gives families the ability to work, plan, grow, and build stability — but families need strong providers to stay open and supported.”
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Explore the latest ICCBA news, media coverage, public comments, testimony, policy developments and publications shaping the future of licensed child care in Indiana.
Why ICCBA?
Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers for licensed child care operators, employers, policymakers, and supporters who want to strengthen Indiana’s child care future.
What is the Indiana Child Care Business Alliance?
The Indiana Child Care Business Alliance, or ICCBA, is a business-led organization created to protect, strengthen, and advance licensed child care businesses across Indiana. ICCBA gives licensed operators a unified voice in Indiana’s economic, legislative, and early education future.
Who should join ICCBA?
ICCBA is built for licensed child care operators who want a stronger voice in policy, funding, regulation, insurance, and workforce conversations. Employers, chambers of commerce, business leaders, and community partners can also support ICCBA as corporate or advocacy partners.
Why does Indiana need ICCBA?
Indiana’s licensed child care operators face major business and policy challenges, including voucher uncertainty, rising insurance pressure, inconsistent regulatory enforcement, licensing burdens, workforce issues, and public-sector competition. ICCBA exists to organize the business side of child care so operators are not politically invisible.
What issues does ICCBA focus on?
ICCBA focuses on voucher stability, insurance reform, licensing modernization, regulatory consistency, private-sector child care protection, workforce development, and recognition of child care as essential economic infrastructure. These were identified as core issue areas for the website’s policy hub.
Why does ICCBA call child care workforce infrastructure?
Reliable child care allows parents to work, employers to retain talent, communities to grow, and children to enter school ready to succeed. When child care breaks down, workforce reliability breaks down. ICCBA helps position child care as an economic infrastructure issue for Indiana.
Is ICCBA only for one child care brand or school?
No. ICCBA is designed to be an independent, statewide alliance for licensed child care businesses across Indiana. It should not represent one school, one provider, or one brand. The goal is to create a unified business voice for licensed operators statewide.
What does membership help fund?
Membership helps fund advocacy, policy education, legislative support, communications, outreach, member recruitment, public awareness, and the organized work needed to make licensed child care businesses a stronger political and economic force in Indiana.
How can employers support ICCBA?
Membership helps fund advocacy, policy education, legislative support, communications, outreach, member recruitment, public awareness, and the organized work needed to make licensed child care businesses a stronger political and economic force in Indiana.
Can parents and community members get involved?
Yes. Parents and community supporters can join the advocacy list, share their child care stories, support ICCBA’s mission publicly, and help policymakers understand how child care access affects work, family stability, and local communities.
How do I become a founding member?
Licensed child care operators can become founding members by completing the membership form on the ICCBA website. A member of the ICCBA team will follow up with next steps, membership details, and ways to participate in the founding campaign.
Get Involved
Help Build the Business Voice Indiana Child Care Has Been Missing
Join ICCBA as a founding member and help protect licensed child care businesses, strengthen private-sector early education, and advance child care as workforce infrastructure across Indiana.
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ICCBA is operator-led, parent-grounded, and built for Indiana’s child care future.
Indiana Child Care Business Alliance Inc. is an Indiana nonprofit corporation organized to advocate for licensed child care operators and strengthen the workforce infrastructure families, employers, and communities depend on.
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