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"Every night, the number of young people on the streets of Cincinnati who are homeless is growing.Bob Mecum, longtime leader of Lighthouse Youth Services, said the young people are for the most part on their own and living from couch to couch.Watch this story\u201CThere are hundreds and hundreds of kids every day in Cincinnati Public Schools who are not living with their families,\u201D Mecum said.This is a reality of homelessness that many people miss or don\u2019t understand. It's a big issue and in some ways it's invisible.Lighthouse does routine checks of the hard-to-imagine places where some of the homeless youths live.CPS administrators said they can chart at least 1,550 district students who are homeless.\u201CWe\u2019re working on a program right now with Western Hills University High School to open their locker room in the morning so the homeless kids can come in and take a shower before they go into class,\u201D Mecum said.They hope to have more schools involved in the program soon. Lighthouse has begun working on a strategic effort to end youth homelessness in Cincinnati by the year 2020.It\u2019s a powerful goal, but there\u2019s also a powerful need. The first public planning meeting is next month."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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