Investment theme: Developing leadership and innovation
Purpose:
To work with a group of marginalised girls and young women in Glasgow, to develop the content of an app. which will contain details of local and nationally-based resources which will signpost vulnerable young women to support networks and services.
Year of grant: 13/2/2023
FR Number: FR-0067791
Amount awarded: £5000
Location: Glasgow
Full description
Funding will be used to support research and development for a guidance and resource app, for young women and those who support them. The app will contain relevant information and signposting to existing training, services, and downloadable toolkits and resources to provide young women, and service providers (including education providers) with information on available resources that offer support and activities for young women. This will assist in tackling risk-taking behaviours and provide positive pathways for all young women, specifically those affected by, or at risk of intimate relationship abuse and commercial sexual exploitation.
Specifically, funding will be used to:
? Run a usability research project via a series of collaborative workshops with young women in marginalised groups and most at risk, including those currently living in care, affected by addictions and poor mental health, to ensure good usability and UX for the App and future iterations. GGC will work with partners including Social Work, VAWP, and Education services to recruit participants.
The workshops will apply a ?user centred design? process and ensure young women can be involved in the design process, allowing them to formulate their own use scenarios, ideas for the app and build aspirations and pathways towards a career in technology.
Develop a comprehensive citywide asset Map database encompassing resources, organisations, places, toolkits and training. This work will be carried out by a resource worker who would engage with a variety of stakeholders ? community services, education, youth clubs, health improvement, HSCP, Violence against Women Partnership, Police, domestic abuse services, other relevant statutory agencies and third sector organisations, to gather information. This, in turn, will provide the basis for information to populate the app.
