Acknowledging social media use can be loads of fun, experts warn about its risks and dangers warned today it can also be fatal." The cautionary words come in the wake of arrests for the rape and sexual exploitation of a 14-year-old girl.These apps are popping up seems like every day," said Ryan Hall of Lighthouse Youth Services. Hall handles street outreach for Lighthouse and emphasized how it's up to parents to be vigilant, to know what those apps are.

Ryan Hall breaks into a wide smile when he recognizes the young man sitting on a retaining wall taking a long drag off a cigarette outside the Downtown library. “Hey man, how are you?” asks Hall, a homeless outreach manager for Lighthouse Youth Services. “You doing OK? Where you staying?”

"It's very difficult. We have families coming in out of the goodness of their heart to be foster families, so we are putting in place now more trauma-based, trauma-focused training for families to be able to help these children cope," Lighthouse Foster Care and Adoption Licensing Supervisor Robyn Bastin said.

The reason he thinks he's made it through, “It’s faith. There’s a reason. I feel like I was supposed to go to Paint Creek. I honestly feel like I wouldn’t be the young man I am today. I feel like I wouldn’t think how I think. I wouldn’t move how I move. I feel like I really needed that time to evaluate myself as a person and find out who I am.”

Safe and Supported's Host Home Program serves LGBTQ youth who have no other place to go.

here’s a reason. I feel like I was supposed to go to Paint Creek. I honestly feel like I wouldn’t be the young man I am today. I feel like I wouldn’t think how I think. I wouldn’t move how I move. I feel like I really needed that time to evaluate myself as a person and find out who I am.”

How many youth are homelessness in our community? Why? What is being done to help them? This and more great information in the segment below from Sunday's "This Week in Cincinnati" on WCPO - 9 On Your Side