“‘You don’t feel heard… you don’t feel seen,’ he added.

‘These are hidden kids,’ said Jeffrey Sitcov, founder of Doors of Change, a local non-profit dedicated to doing direct outreach to homeless youth on the streets of San Diego County.

‘Not only are they homeless, but now there’s a pandemic on top of them,’ Sitcov added.

Ninety percent of these homeless kids are fleeing highly dysfunctional homes, and 40% of them are from the LGBTQ+ community, according to Sitcov.

‘It is the most under served of the entire homeless population,’ he told CBS 8. ”