Contact: Kim Wells
Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
309-664-0667

TURNING THE CORNER, INC. JOINS CAEPV

Bloomington, IL (September 15, 2003): The Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence is pleased to announce that Turning The Corner, Inc. joined as the newest Alliance member. The mission of Turning The Corner is to break the recurring pattern of domestic abuse by providing workshops, services and specific tools to survivors of domestic violence in order to foster healthy self-esteem and financial self-sufficiency. Nancy Salamone, founder of the organization, has a wonderful story to tell -- she is a woman from the corporate world with her own financial services firm -- and she "turned the corner" herself in 1991 in leaving an abusive marriage. For more on Turning The Corner, visit http://www.turningthecorner.org.

The Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence is a leading force in the fight against intimate partner violence and its effects on the workplace. It is the only national organization of its kind founded by business leaders and focused on the workplace. Since 1995, the Alliance has brought together dozens of progressive companies who exchange information, collaborate on projects, and use their influence to instigate change. The Alliance offers extensive research, policy knowledge and issue expertise to the business community, including training, program guidance, and crisis consultation – with programs designed to make the workplace safe and to prevent intimate partner violence from impacting the workplace.

CAEPV has member and associate organizations reaching over one million employees nationwide. Corporate members include Altria Group, Inc., American Express, ADM, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, CIGNA, Country Insurance and Financial Services, Eastman Kodak, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Kraft Foods, Lifetime Television, Liz Claiborne Inc., Mary Kay Inc., Morgan Stanley, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, RAND, State Farm Insurance Companies, Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless. Internationally, the Office of the Status of Women, Commonwealth of Australia, is a CAEPV member organization.