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Why a former foster kid opened a foster care agency for gay teens

CBC Radio | Posted: July 13, 2016 4:09 PM | Last Updated: July 13, 2016

Image | Five Fourteen

Caption: Chad Craig, Lucas Medina, Jessica Perkins. (RADIO-CANADA/EDITH DROUIN)

Audio | The Candy Palmater Show : Why a former foster kid opened a foster care agency for gay teens

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Lucas Medina and his husband have started Five/Fourteen(external link), a foster care agency in Windsor helping LGBTQ kids find safe, supportive families.
He tells Candy about his own experience growing up in a homophobic family, and explains why he switched careers to help teens who are struggling the same way he did.
Read the Youth Leaving Care Hearings report(external link) that was crucial to Lucas' decision to start Five/Fourteen.

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