CorporateFamily Solutions Offers Experts to Media for White House Conference on Child Care.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1997--With the White House Conference on Child Care only days away, CorporateFamily Solutions, a national leader in providing work and family services at the workplace (including child care), offers expert insight on the state of child care in this country and on-site examples of how corporate America is responding to the needs of working families for affordable, high quality care.

The White House Conference, hosted by President and Mrs. Bill Clinton, will take place on Thursday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT.

CorporateFamily Solutions helps some of America's largest corporations improve productivity and become more "family friendly" by providing workplace child care, education programs, family support services and work/life consulting services. CorporateFamily manages 94 Family Centers in 27 states for 68 client companies such as Boeing, Chase Manhattan, S.C. Johnson Wax, Citibank, Johnson & Johnson, JC Penney and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Thirty-four CorporateFamily clients are Fortune 500 companies, and 23 were recognized by Working Mother magazine in this year's "Top 100 Companies for Working Mothers."

CorporateFamily Solutions has two notable principals who are available to the media for interviews.

Marguerite W. Sallee is president and chief executive officer and founder of the company in 1987. Sallee's vision for the company grew out of her experience as a single working parent as she struggled with child care and balancing work and family responsibilities.

Sallee is available for interviews on a number of topics, including:

-- What is quality child care and why is it important;

-- The company and related business issues;

-- The growing demand in corporate America for work and family

services (It is "an idea whose time has come"); and,

-- The changing workplace and the dynamic between employer and

employee (The workplace is becoming the "new American

neighborhood").

Dana Friedman, Ed.D., is senior vice president and director of Corporate Solutions for the Resource Group, the company's consulting division. Friedman is a former co-founder and co-president of the Families and Work Institute, a research firm, which focused on business, government, and community efforts to help families care for their dependents. Before FWI, Friedman was a senior research associate for The Conference Board, a business think tank, where she created the Work and Family Information Center.

Friedman is available for interviews on topics including:

-- Trends in child care across the country;

-- Return on investment and strategies for measuring the impact

of work/life programs;

-- Best practices in the work/life arena based on data from some

of the nation's largest companies collected during our

ongoing benchmarking studies; and,

-- Cutting edge research, such as the recently published report

to the Ford Foundation on "Relinking Life and Work."

CorporateFamily Solutions is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. The CorporateFamily Resource Group, the company's consulting and product development division, is based in Morristown, NJ. CorporateFamily's stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CFAM.

CONTACT: Atkinson Public Relations, Nashville

Kevin Phillips, 615/963-1301

or

CorporateFamily Solutions, Nashville

Diane Huggins, 615/256-9915