Partners

Colorado Businesses and Communities working together.

The Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business Project is pleased to partner with a number of Colorado organizations and businesses. Partnerships are based on a mutual concern to strengthen businesses' response to domestic violence in the workplace.

Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business Partners (January 24, 2003)

(left to right) Paul Farley, Deputy Executive Director, State of Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (CDPA); Randi Blatt, Director,CDPA; Monica Cortez-Sangster, Manager of Human Resources, CDPA; Michael Williams, Director, Division of Administration Hearings, CDPA; Kathleen Schoen, Director, Family Violence Program Colorado Bar Association; Barbara Thompson, Vice President, Mountain States Employers Council (MSEC); Ken Pinnock, Director, Employee Relations, MSEC; Nancy Cain, Executive Vice President, MSEC; Melody West, Safety and Workers Compensation Specialist, Pinnacol Assurance; Marcia Choate, Human Resources Director, Pinnacol Assurance; Tina Dengerink, Employee Relations, MSEC; Gary Pon, President and CEO, Pinnacol Assurance; John Moye, President, Colorado Bar Association; Bob Hill, Chair, Family Violence Program Steering Committee, Colorado Bar Association.

Here is a list of our valued partners:

• The Colorado Attorney General’s Office

Ken Salazar, Colorado’s Attorney General, awarded the Colorado Bar Association the funds to create and implement the Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business Project.

• Mountain States Employers Council

MSEC will present MIYB extended training for managers, supervisors, and human resource and employee assistance personnel.

• Pinnacol Assurance

Founded in 1915, Pinnacol Assurance is Colorado's leading provider of workers' compensation insurance with the state's largest loss prevention staff. Pinnacol joined the Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business project as a training partner. They are conducting in-house training for their employees, starting with executives and team leaders. Read more about Pinnacol and Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business.

• State of Colorado

• Project Safeguard, Safehouse Denver, and AMEND

These three service providers will present MIYB trainings and provide information included on this Web site and in the training material. Thanks to Kristina Matkins and SafeHouse Denver for use of the 3 Rs: Recognize, Respond, Refer.

• Advocates Against Battering and Abuse

This Steamboat Springs domestic violence service provider is coordinating MIYB activities in the Steamboat area. Read more about Steamboat Springs and Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business.