As a project of WFWP Victoria, committee members of the Dignity Project met throughout the year to organise a public forum in the City of Dandenong. The Dignity Project was initiated at the 2015 UN International Day of Peace Conference, with the forum being an answer to the call of action from participants on the day. The outer eastern growth corridor of Melbourne is an area showing high levels of documented violence against women and children, plus drug and alcohol abuse. These council areas include Cardinia, Casey and Greater Dandenong. According to the 2016 ‘Profile of Health and Wellbeing in Greater Dandenong’ the number of family-related violent offences documented by Victoria Police in 2014/15 was 87% higher than the metropolitan average and the second highest rate in Melbourne. In 2010/11, the rate of child abuse in Greater Dandenong was more than the Victorian rate and the second highest level in metropolitan Melbourne.