42. Joshua White: A Survivor Using His Voice to Encourage Others to Use Theirs

Sexual Assault Survivor Stories Podcast - SASS

WARNING: This episode is explicit and detailed in the descriptions of rape and sexual assault. It is not appropriate for children, and extreme discretion is advised in keeping the listening audience restricted to only appropriately aged and emotionally capable persons.

I am honored to introduce you to another brave and strong voice of a survivor of intra-familial sexual assault/rape who reached out to me through a social media message, offering to be on the show to tell his story. Joshua White found Sexual Assault Survivor Stories through a SASS promo post on LinkedIn and messaged me saying that he had decided he was ready to tell his story as part of furthering his healing journey.

There are several amazing components to this episode…one is that Joshua is a former, full-time, active duty US Army Soldier, and his military occupation was as a Criminal Investigations Division Special Agent, which is the organization that I worked for for nearly 6 years as a Highly Qualified Expert supervising training and curriculum for the CID Sexual Assault Investigations Division, and where I co-managed the Special Victims Unit Investigations Course that Joshua refers to in this episode (now known as the Special Victims Capabilities Course). I had completed my assignment at Ft. Leonard Wood by the time Joshua went through the course, but it’s awesome to know that we have that commonality! And Joshua still serves in the US Army Reserves! Thank you to Joshua, his wife, and his entire family for the sacrifices that they’ve made and continue to make to help make our country safe!

However, I think one of the greatest parts of this interview is that Joshua hopes to encourage others to do what he did: tell their rape or sexual assault story on this podcast, because he feels that someone out there who is willing to do so may have something very important to say that we all need to hear.

That’s the premise here at SASS…providing a platform for victims and survivors to tell their stories, not only for their own healing process, but so that others who are victims and survivors can feel the camaraderie between all of us who share in the commonality of the impacts of rape and sexual assault. And that doesn’t always mean victims and survivors; this podcast is for everyone, including criminal justice professionals, victim advocates and other care providers, HR personnel, executives, education personnel, lawyers in multiple fields of expertise…you name it, this podcast is for you: Joshua wants you to hear what he has to say. And so do I. Because we all know someone whose life has been affected by rape or sexual assault.

Thank you for tuning in.

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