Tragically, we live in a world where one out of three women will be physically or sexually assaulted in her lifetime. Every two and half minutes, somewhere in the US, someone chooses to commit sexual assault.

This year WPS Health Insurance has helped develop a partnership to increase the awareness of everyone’s role and responsibility to stop family violence. WPS Health Insurance is working with the State Medical Society, the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation, and the Wisconsin Women’s Council to call on businesses and health care providers to establish policies that help identify needs and services for victims of intimate partner violence.

• Read the Full Statement by Bill Bathke, Executive Vice President and COO

Press Conference Materials

• Proclamation by the Office of the Governor of Health Cares About Violence Against Women Day
• Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault Statement
• Wisconsin Nurses Association Statement
• Wisconsin Medical Society Statement
• Wisconsin Women's Council Statement
• Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation Statement
• UW Health Statement
• Statement of Bonnie Hill, Survivor of  Domestic Violence
• WPS Statement of Policy on Workplace and Family Violence

Important Referral Phone Numbers

• National Domestic Violence Hotline
  (800) 799-SAFE
• National Sexual Violence Center
  (877) 739-3895

Media Coverage

• Health Groups Step Up Efforts To Identify Domestic Abuse
  (Capital Times, October 7, 2008)
• Abuse Screening Urged - WPS Insurance Urges Health-care Providers To Ask Questions About Domestic Abuse
  (Wisconsin State Journal, October 8, 2008)
• Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence urges doctors to screen for abuse
  (Isthmus, October 9, 2008)
• Stopping family violence is business issue
  (Business Journal of Milwaukee OP ED by Bill Bathke, October 10, 2008)