Three weeks before her 14th birthday, Clea Moss ran away from home, marking the start of a dangerous period of life. “I joined organized crime,” says Clea. “I quickly realized the dangers this choice presented in my life.”

She connected with a house for substance affected youth in Abbotsford, which she looks back on as giving her the courage to leave the situations she found herself in.

Clea began a new vision for her life — one of healing and restoration. Clea quickly realized a passion for helping young people escape situations like she found herself in.

“Two young people I knew overdosed within a month of each other, and I promised them that I would save as many youth as I could from that same fate,” she says.

She connected with a house for substance affected youth in Abbotsford, which she looks back on as giving her the courage to leave the situations she found herself in.

Now, she’s doing exactly that.

Recently, Clea found housing for an encampment of six homeless youth. She arranges medical and financial aid for street-entrenched youth who have nowhere else to turn. And she’s there to hold back the hair of detoxing youth, because “youth need people that are there the whole time. It’s important for them to see that my view of them doesn’t change.”


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