AGENCY: When young people are described as having agency, choosing certain behaviors/actions. Includes discussions about the person’s resiliency and/or resourcefulness.
DEMEANOR: Descriptions about a young person’s emotional, interpersonal, and physical presentation. Includes changes in demeanor over time.
DEMOGRAPHICS: Descriptions of young person’s gender, race, age, education status, citizenship, sexual identity, and kids.
DRUGS: Drug use or involvement in drug sales. Includes alcohol.
EMPLOYMENT: Descriptions of young person’s legal sector job(s).
FAMILY: Biological parents or guardians. Maltreatment by family. Family issues (substance use, mental health issues, poverty). Includes familial history of sex trades.
FORCED LABOR: Nonsexual labor.
FRIENDS: Descriptions of young person’s friends.
GRANTEE: Descriptions of the OVC-funded program and its philosophy.
AGE OUT: Narratives about when a young person turns eighteen and not eligible for OVC-funded services.
CASE MANAGEMENT: Descriptions of case management.
CASE MANAGER NEEDS: Services the case managers think the young person needs.
CLIENT NEEDS: Services the young person identifies as wanting.
OUTCOMES: What case managers consider to be successful or troubling outcomes.
REFERRALS: Services the young person is referred to. Includes both internal and external services.
CHALLENGES: Difficulties in working with this population.
MACRO: Describes the culture in which individuals live. For example, policies, homo- and transphobia, sex trade stigma.
MESO: Refers to relations between microsystems or connections between contexts.
MICRO: Refers to the institutions and groups that most immediately and directly impact the young person, including OVC-funded program, family, school, religious institutions, neighborhood, and peers.
PROGRAM SPECIFIC: Problems unique to the structure or functioning of the program.
ENGAGEMENT: Ways in which the young person interacts with overall program. Includes other services the person receives beyond case management. Includes when the young person is no longer accessing services.
ENTRY: How young person first came in contact with the grantee.
HEALTH: Pregnancy, physical health issues (includes disabilities), sexual health issues (sexually transmitted infections/HIV), mental health issues.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: Description of intimate relationships with others. Can include relationship with a third party.
LIVING SITUATION: Places where the young person lives.
RUNAWAY: Descriptions about running away from home or a system (i.e., juvenile justice placement or foster home).
SELF-ESTEEM: Descriptions about the young person’s confidence in self. Includes discussions of shame/stigma.
SEX TRADE INVOLVEMENT:
CLIENTS: Descriptions about the people purchasing sexual services.
THIRD PARTIES: Anyone who connects young people to clients or benefits financially from their involvement. Includes but is not limited to pimps, traffickers, friends, acquaintances, and family.
INITIATION: Details about first experience trading sex. Includes life events associated with involvement in sex trades (LCT: timing).
TRANSITIONS: Experiences moving in and out of sex trade involvement after initiation (LCT: Changes in involvement over time).
STAR: Star quotes. Quotes that illustrate key themes and findings in the analysis and that will likely be used for publications and presentations
SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT: Other services the young person is connected to (by choice or through mandate). Involvement in community.
CBOs: Community-based organizations.
CHILD WELFARE
EDUCATION
HEALTH
HOUSING
JUVENILE JUSTICE
POLICE
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
VIOLENCE: Young person’s experiences with violence. Not limited to violence experienced in connection with sex trades.