Lucas Medina and his husband Chad Craig have opened up Five/Fourteen, a service that finds LGBT foster children welcoming homes.
The agency, based in Ontario, has 30 young people on it’s list who are waiting to be place with families.
The group also has 140 applications from potential foster families across Toronto, Windsor, London and Ottawa.
Medina was compelled to start the organisation following his own battle within the system.
“It’s just amazing to me that we’ve failed these youth to this degree,” he says. “I just needed to do something because nobody else was actually doing anything about it.”