Jim Moore is the CEO and one of the founders of the Dream Centre, a faith-based recovery organization, connected to the First Assembly Church.
“It was very exciting because this was a hotel with one of the largest strip clubs in Calgary, with a number of bars in it. In my closing statement to the gentleman who owned the hotel, I said ‘What is your legacy going to be? Taking clothes off women or putting clothes on men?’ Suddenly there were some tears running down his cheek and he said let’s make a deal. That’s how we opened the Dream Centre,” Moore said on Friday.Moore is stepping down at the end of October after 20 years as the CEO.
Under Moore’s leadership, the organization grew from supporting 12 residents in one facility to over 371 residents in 49 properties. Wood says he was raised in a good home, but because of trauma in his life, he started drinking as a teen. Reaching out for help at the Dream Centre was scary but it may have saved his life.
Trellis Society for Community Impact purchased city land in Bowness, Calgary Dream Centre got land in Erlton and the Liberty Housing Organization got land in Parkdale.
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