SAN ANTONIO — Metro Health is looking into new options to help areas hit hardest by what they're calling "intimate partner violence."

A term that's interchangeable with domestic violence, Metro Health has created a list of five risks factors and mapped that data:

  • Education
  • Income
  • Employment
  • Histories of child abuse 
  • Family violence

By compiling that list, the city was able to identify high-risk areas dealing with low city-funded services.

High-risk areas included Districts 10, 8 and 6.

"One of the questions we need to answer next is if there is a gap that people don't have access to service or is it that they don't know about the service," said Metro Health's Colleen Bridger. 

Metro Health says if their results find that services are available in these areas, they'll turn towards an increase in educational programs for survivors.

Officials remind anyone who needs help that a local domestic violence hotline is available around the clock at 210-733-8810.