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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and every year Umbrella highlights and celebrates our local recovery heroes. Sue and her daughters Emily and Nicola are prominent members in the recovery community whether it is through their personal recovery or through the great work they d...
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UVIC Resource Fair

Today, Erik and Tina spent the day at UVIC manning the Umbrella table and fielding lots of questions from students and faculty. It is important for Umbrella and for the students to know about what we do, how we help and how they can help if they have a friend and/or love...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and Umbrella is excited to share our annual recovery campaigners that proudly showcase their recovery. Darryl is a proud dad and husband, and everyone in Darryl's life and all of us at Umbrella are proud of Darryl's recovery. It takes a lot o...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are very excited to share our next year 3 campaigners Derek and Scott. Derek and Scott remind us of the importance of social connections and friendships that build and grow in recovery. It is often said that in recovery you have to cha...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are very excited to share another one of our awesome year 3 folks, Barbara. Barbara has an energy and warmth ab0out her that spreads to everyone around her. She is positive, helpful and very sweet, and she is also inspires people aroun...
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Goodbye Dunedin

August 31 was the last day in Umbrella's second home, unit 8 -415 Dunedin. This office move was a huge leap for us in 2018, we had been renting an office out at Quadra Village Community Centre and took a chance on a bigger space at Dunedin. We started by only renting th...
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Hello Bridge Street

September 1 was the first day in our new space. Located at 2675 Bridge Street, Umbrella has made this our new, and third home. This space has so much natural light, a warm welcoming vibe and more space for us to help more people. We have been able to double our counsel...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are very excited to share our next year 3 campaigner, Kevin. Kevin has the warmest smile and the biggest heart, and he is so incredibly proud of his recovery and we are too! He puts in the work, he gets the results and we think that is...
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Community Hero

One of the residents, John H from Foundation House nominated Umbrella's own Kelsey as Hometown Hero, and Kelsey won the award! This wonderful hero award included Kelsey attending the BC Lions game, getting the spirit of the game going and being recognized as the Hometow...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are excited to share the first of this year's campaign. Lance and Tina. We love this pic, it captures them both so well and it was nice to see Lance smile. This month we are celebrating recovery on social media, buses and around the c...