PFI-RP: Commercializing a novel mobile platform technology to both prevent and respond to high school violence

这个创新-研究伙伴关系（PFI-RP）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力解决了一个重大的社会和公共卫生问题：校园暴力。每年有超过430万起校园暴力事件，造成4亿美元的直接费用和9400万美元的学生受伤医疗费用。如果不加以解决，校园暴力，包括欺凌、欺凌、性骚扰和约会暴力，会影响受害者的健康和安全。我们提出的创新的社会价值是一个全面和易于采用的系统，减少学生现在和未来的风险，向家长保证，学校正在努力保护学生，并减少学校的风险和责任。创新的系统将是一个许可证。通过移动的应用程序技术部署的动态、实时、交互式、可定制的工具。它将为高中生提供新的、基于证据的和针对具体年龄的教育内容和预防策略，以促进最终用户采用和参与的形式提供。这项创新的目标市场是美国35，000所公立和私立高中。最初的客户是学校管理人员，其次是社区组织和家长，拟议的项目解决了对一个综合全面系统的需求，以减少校园暴力，并教育高中学生安全地应对各种校园暴力，包括欺凌、骚扰和殴打。这款移动的应用程序和随附的管理员仪表板代表了技术、预防科学和青少年发展科学的新颖结合。该项目将评估学生安全应用程序对校园暴力事件的影响，学生对校园暴力和预防的了解，学生暴力报告以及获得支持资源。此外，应用程序的实施策略将进行研究和评估，以优化学生的使用。该团队将进行一项四州20所学校的试点研究，包括学生和学校管理人员的定性焦点小组数据收集以及学生安全应用程序实施之前、期间和之后的定量调查管理。预期成果是一个移动的应用程序部署的学校安全系统，该系统集成了全面的教育、预防、沟通和响应工具。该团队的努力代表了一种创新的组合，包括游戏化的研究信息社会情感教育内容，保密报告工具，帮助学生在危险情况下的互动工具，向学生手机推送通知，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation – Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) project addresses a significant societal and public health problem: school violence. Annually, there are over 4.3 million school violence offenses resulting in $400 million in direct costs and $94 million in health care costs from student injuries. When unaddressed, school violence, including bullying, hazing, sexual harassment, and dating violence, impacts victims’ health and safety. The societal value of our proposed innovation is a comprehensive and easy-to-adopt system that reduces present and future risk to students, reassures parents that schools are working to protect students, and reduces schools’ risk and liability. The innovative system will be a licensable. dynamic, real-time, interactive, customizable tool deployed via mobile app technology. It will provide new, evidence-based and age-specific educational content and prevention strategies for high school students, delivered in a format that facilitates end-user adoption and engagement. The target market segment for the proposed innovation is the 35,000 US public and private high schools. The initial customers are school administrators, followed by community organizations and parents.The proposed project addresses the need for an integrated, comprehensive system to reduce school violence and teach high school students to respond safely to the spectrum of school violence including bullying, harassment and assault. The mobile app and accompanying administrator dashboard represent the novel union of technology, prevention science, and adolescent development science. This project will evaluate the impact of the student safety app on school violence incidents, student knowledge of school violence and prevention, student reports of violence, and access to support resources. Additionally, app implementation strategies will be researched and evaluated to optimize student usage. The team will conduct a four-state, 20-school pilot study that includes qualitative focus group data collection with students and school administrators and quantitative survey administration before, during, and following the implementation of the student safety app. The anticipated output is a mobile app-deployed school safety system that integrates comprehensive education, prevention, communication, and response tools. The team's effort represents an innovative combination of gamified research-informed social-emotional educational content, a confidential reporting tool, interactive tools to aid students in risky situations, push notifications to student phones, and streamlined access to school and community resources.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.