I-Corps: Platform to Help Prevent and Respond to Sexual Assault

I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提供一个平台，主要是为学院和大学，预防和应对校园性侵犯。五分之一的女大学生在她们的大学生涯中会遭到性侵犯。只有10%的受害者会报案；其余的人，由于缺乏报告期权信息和康复指导，将在可能导致学术挑战和放弃职业规划的后果中挣扎。在10%的性侵犯报告中，许多机构难以有效应对，导致负面的、引人注目的头条新闻。目前，美国教育部民权办公室（Civil Rights Office）正在对300多所学院和大学进行调查，原因是对性侵犯调查处理不当。虽然联邦政府要求高校解决校园性侵犯问题，但他们缺乏基于证据的方法来预防和应对性侵犯。诉讼（来自受害者和被告）、政府罚款、大学安全评级以及不变的攻击统计数据，为一个旨在协调校园性侵犯预防和应对工具和资源的研究知情平台带来了商业机会。I-Corps项目旨在探索一个以研究为基础、以证据为基础的平台的商业潜力，为校园性侵犯受害者提供全面、独特的信息，帮助预防工作，促进学生安全。该平台的核心是一个移动应用程序，其设计依据是针对目标受众的定性研究，内容依据是15年以上的性暴力研究，以及该领域从业者的意见。该平台通过以下方式全面解决性侵犯预防和应对问题：1)通过智能手机应用程序和网络为受害者和盟友提供基于研究的指导；2)使用决策树方法帮助受害者了解选项并选择前进的道路；3)提供交互式攻击预防工具，帮助减少攻击发生率；4)给予学校对内容的控制权，以帮助确保正确管理攻击行为；5)提供一个实施工具包，这样学校就可以很容易地让学生参与到平台的校园适应中来。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to deliver a platform, primarily for colleges and universities, to both prevent and respond to campus sexual assault. One in five female college students will be sexually assaulted during their college careers. Only 10% of victims will report the assaults; the remainder, lacking reporting option information and guidance on recovery, will struggle with an aftermath that can lead to academic challenges and abandoned career plans. Among the 10% of reported assaults, many institutions struggle to respond effectively, leading to negative, high-profile headlines. More than 300 colleges and universities are currently under investigation by the United States Department of Education Civil Rights Office for mishandling sexual assault investigations. While colleges and universities are federally mandated to address campus sexual assault, they lack evidence-based methods to prevent and respond to sexual assault. Lawsuits (from victims and the accused), government fines, college safety ratings, and unchanging assault statistics have led to a commercial opportunity for a research-informed platform designed to align campus sexual assault prevention and response tools and resources.This I-Corps project aims to explore the commercial potential of a research-informed, evidence-based platform to provide comprehensive, uniquely tailored information to support victims of campus sexual assault, aid in prevention efforts, and promote student safety. The heart of the platform is a mobile application with a design informed by qualitative studies with the target audience, and content informed by 15+ years of sexual violence research, and by input from practitioners in this field. This platform addresses sexual assault prevention and response comprehensively by: 1) Providing research-informed guidance for victims and allies available in a smartphone app and on the web; 2) Using a decision-tree approach to help victims understand options and choose a path forward; 3) Delivering interactive assault prevention tools to help reduce the incidence of assault; 4) Giving schools control of the content, to help ensure assaults are correctly managed; and 5) Providing an implementation toolkit, so schools can easily engage students in the platform's campus adaptation.