Transcript: Katherine Gottlieb
The Family Wellness Warriors Initiative encourages men in the community to be strong protectors for their families, like they were in the old days
- [Gottlieb:]
- We’re trying to get more and more men involved because our Native men are still leaders in our communities. In order to get into a community, we have to work with our men. And, also, I think the strength behind what our men have in the core of them, if it’s brought out, they can be the protectors, and that’s why it’s called the Warrior’s Initiative, because of in days of old they would stand, and they would protect their families. They would die for their women and their children. And what we’re saying is do that again. Come back and do it today, and this time do it around domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and child neglect. End that for us as strong men and warriors just like they did in the days when they had to stand up and fight for us. We want them to do it today.