“Sesame Street” is introducing a new storyline for one of their Muppets in an effort to raise awareness of a key issue facing many Americans: homelessness.

On Tuesday, Sesame Workshop, the show’s nonprofit educational arm, announced that one of the show’s characters, Lily (who was first introduced in 2011), will experience homelessness. The 7-year-old Muppet’s family will be staying with friends after having lost their home. In the past, her story had included her family’s struggle with food insecurity.

While Lily won’t be on the “Sesame Street” TV show, her story will be featured in YouTube videos, books and other educational materials for families and educators to discuss homelessness with kids.

The group’s hope is that by sharing the story of a child experiencing homelessness ― a reality for many kids across the country ― it will “help mitigate the impact of the trauma and stigma that result from homelessness,” a press release said.

“We know children experiencing homelessness are often caught up in a devastating cycle of trauma — the lack of affordable housing, poverty ... and the daily trauma of the uncertainty and insecurity of being homeless,” Sherrie Westin, Sesame Workshop’s president of global impact, said in the release. “We want them to know that they are not alone and home is more than a house or an apartment — home is wherever the love lives.”