ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the major contemporary understandings and frameworks employed in strategies to eliminate men's violence against women and, more specifically, family violence. It explores how this knowledge informed a community-based family violence prevention project to address this Wicked Problem in partnership with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The chapter considers some benefits and limitations of project implementation and development from a community development and action research perspective and discusses the Whittlesea CALD Communities Family Violence Project and model (WCFVP). It focuses on some of the strengths and limitations of the WCFVP and its model, as well as on community development as a method for working towards the reduction and prevention of family violence in CALD communities. The chapter also provides some thoughts about the notion of change and transformation in preventing violence at work.
