Lisa is 20 years old. At the age of 14, her boyfriend made her have sex with his father for $100. She fled her drug addicted home at age 15 with a man who promised to take care of her. The man turned out to be a pimp who forced her into prostitution. At age 20, she was arrested for intent to solicit prostitution and spent the night in jail. The next day she was released and forced back on the streets; that very next night, she was arrested again. Knowing that if she didn't flee, she was in danger of long-term jail time, she fled from her pimp and located a women's shelter. They referred her to HomeBase Youth Services where she began the slow process of putting her life back together.

One day an old friend called and invited her for lunch. Upon meeting her friend she realized that she'd been set-up, and her pimp was waiting for her. He took her at gunpoint to Los Angeles where she was locked in a bathroom for eight days and beaten regularly. She finally convinced him she would go back into prostitution. The pimp released her to go to work and she fled when she hit the streets. Lisa called HomeBase Youth Services collect. The case manager she spoke with had the Los Angeles police pick her up and take her to the bus station. HomeBase staff had a bus ticket waiting for her to return to Phoenix and HomeBase.

With continued personal effort and intervention, Lisa has become self-sufficient and while she continues to work on her issues resulting from years of abuse, she is living independent and is prostitution free. Several months ago she called a staff member at the HomeBase Transitional Living Facility and happily reported that she met a man she liked a lot. She had been on five dates with him and was proud to report that she had not had sex with him. She has learned to value herself.