13+
Years of Indiana Operator Experience
Meet the Indiana Child Care
Business Alliance
The Indiana Child Care Business Alliance is a business-led organization created to protect, strengthen, and advance licensed child care operators across Indiana.
ICCBA exists because licensed child care businesses are essential to Indiana’s workforce, economy, families, and future — but too often, the business side of child care is underrepresented in the policy conversations that shape the industry.
Indiana Child Care Business Alliance Inc. is an Indiana nonprofit corporation formed to give licensed child care businesses a unified voice in Indiana’s economic, legislative, and early education future.
We are building the unified voice Indiana’s licensed child care businesses need.
Operator-Led. Statewide. United.
Built by Indiana Child Care Leaders
ICCBA was founded by Omar Khan, a 13-year Indiana child care operator and CEO of The Weston School. The founding Board of Directors includes leaders from The Goddard School, LeafSpring School, and independent operators across Indiana.
Together, we represent more than 75 licensed child care schools serving over 10,000 Indiana children—bringing real operator experience and a unified business voice to the decisions shaping Indiana’s child care future.
Our Founding Impact
75+
Licensed Child Care Schools
10,000+
Indiana Children Served
A Stronger Voice for Indiana Child Care
How ICCBA Gives Operators a Stronger Voice
ICCBA brings licensed child care operators together around the issues that affect their businesses, families, employers, and Indiana’s economy. Our approach is simple: organize operators, educate policymakers, strengthen public understanding, and advocate for practical solutions that protect child care as workforce infrastructure.
Operator-Led Advocacy
ICCBA is built around the real-world challenges licensed child care operators face every day — from staffing and compliance to funding, insurance, and growth.
Workforce Infrastructure Messaging
We position child care as essential infrastructure for Indiana’s workforce, employers, families, and economic future.
Policy Education
ICCBA helps educate policymakers with business-side insight, operator experience, and practical solutions.
Regulatory Consistency
We advocate for clearer, fairer, and more consistent expectations across licensing, inspections, fire safety, and compliance.
Private-Sector Protection
ICCBA supports the role of licensed private child care providers as a critical part of Indiana’s early childhood system.
Unified Member Action
We bring licensed operators together so the industry can organize, fund the work, and speak with one stronger voice.
The Story
Why ICCBA Was Created
ICCBA was created to give licensed child care operators across Indiana the unified business voice they have been missing.
Licensed providers help parents work, employers retain talent, communities grow, and children enter school ready to succeed. But the policies affecting child care businesses are too often shaped without operators fully represented at the table.
ICCBA exists to organize licensed operators, educate policymakers, protect private-sector child care, and strengthen child care as essential workforce infrastructure for Indiana’s economy.
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.”
Advocacy Already in Action
What We Have Done
ICCBA was created to do more than discuss the challenges facing Indiana child care operators. We are already showing up, speaking publicly, and helping shape the policies that affect our industry.
01
Public Comment
Filed an Official Response
ICCBA filed an official public comment on Indiana’s proposed child care licensing rule, LSA 26-159, ensuring licensed child care operators were represented in the formal rulemaking process.
02
Public Testimony
Testified Before the State
ICCBA testified on camera at the July 6, 2026 OECOSL public hearing, directly addressing state officials about the real-world impact of the proposed child care licensing changes.
Watch the WISH-TV Coverage03
Policy Leadership
Submitted a Statewide Policy Brief
ICCBA submitted a policy brief to the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s 2026 Inaugural Policy Summit, bringing the business realities of licensed child care into a broader statewide economic and legislative conversation.
Our work has begun.
We are just getting started.
News, Media & Publications
Follow ICCBA’s Advocacy in Action
Explore the latest ICCBA news, media coverage, public comments, testimony, policy developments and publications shaping the future of licensed child care in Indiana.
Built With Leaders Across Indiana Child Care
ICCBA is bringing together licensed child care operators and industry leaders to strengthen Indiana’s child care business voice.
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.
COMPANY
LEGAL
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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