Danger Assessment app for Young Women with OneLove Foundation

Unmet Need
Around 1 in 4 women experience severe intimate partner physical violence, sexual violence, and/or stalking. Many women cannot live their lives without fear of being attacked or stalked by an ex or are trapped in an abusive relationship. There is a need to help women understand and classify abusive relationships so that they can better address their safety concerns.

Technology Overview
The inventors have created an app for danger assessment. It is an instrument that assists women abused by an intimate partner or ex-partner to accurately assess their risk of homicide or near homicide by the abuser. The app will disseminate their technology to young women so that they can assess their own risk. The questionnaire on the app asks 20 yes/ no questions about risk of homicide in abusive relationships, scores the responses according to an algorithm developed on the basis of research, and gives a score in a graphical representation of the score in comparison with other women. Safety messages appear after women take the assessment according to the level of danger, and aid women in getting help. 

Stage of Development
The application is under development, with a completed questionnaire.

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