"I think people understand their case might not go to court, but we're validating their experience and helping them heal by listening to them."
Josephine Wood has seen attitudes towards sexual violence change significantly since she first joined RASA Merseyside. Josephine, known as Jo to her friends and colleagues, has supported thousands of survivors of sexual crimes since she joined the organisation in 2004.
RASA is a counselling and support service that was first founded back in 1986 after the rape and murder of a young woman in Birkenhead. The grass-roots organisation, which also has offices in Bootle, has grown since then to support 3,500 victims of sexual violence each year and helped transform their lives through one simple task - listening to them.
