Rep. Ruben Gallego talked about his abusive father at an event spotlighting a bill that would help Native American communities.
"My father was very abusive to me. He's learned it from his father and on and on. So, someone has to break the cycle. But that takes actual therapists, family therapists and time," Gallego, D-Ariz., said Friday at an event with tribal leaders at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community's Family Advocacy Center in Scottsdale.
Among other things, the law would allow Native American organizations in cities to get funding to address child abuse and neglect and would create a National Indian Child Resource and Family Service Center that will study the issue and develop best practices for tribes. If the programs are not fully funded, Gallego said, the tribes will be forced to focus on prosecuting the crime, without initiatives that prevent child abuse and neglect from happening in the first place. He said that states usually fund these sorts of programs, but it often does not trickle down to the tribal level. Tribes are therefore on their own, he said, when it comes to financing such enterprises.
"When the federal government doesn't step in and do it ... they may have to focus on the punitive side, which is arresting people," Gallego said."What they don't have time to do, which is actually more expensive, is the prevention side. The family training where you bring in the parents and teach them how to break the cycle of violence."
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