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Debt Paid

A few months back we had an event celebrating Evan's 10 years with Umbrella. Staff, friends, family, board members and community partners all attended. We had some Evan trivia and Fred from SOLID was the winner! The prize was lunch with Evan and it took some time, but ...
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Moss Street Market

On Saturday, Rebecca and Trevor spent the day at the Moss Street Market to field questions about Umbrella and the services we provide and how we can help. There were tons of visitors to our Umbrella tent, people in recovery coming to say hello, people curious about wha...
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Friends at Berwick

The amazing residents at Berwick Retirement Community put together a lovely gift basket for our clients to enjoy and also made a generous donation to Umbrella. Linda from Berwick popped into the Umbrella office to deliver the goodies and we were able to get a quick pic ...
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Hope & Pride Beads

This amazing human is Kelsey Burns, and she is incredibly talented. At Soberfest, Kelsey was a vendor that sold home-made bracelets to support the work that Umbrella does. She made 7 and sold 6 and then she came to our office to generously donate the funds she raised. ...
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Sweeny Moving

A huge shoutout to our friends at Sweeny Moving! Today they loaded up some new to Umbrella desks that we purchased and delivered them to our not yet open new office space just to help us out. This great local moving company are professional, helpful and careful and they...
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Resident Fun

Last night all the residents at all our of houses gathered for a barbecue feast at Gorge Park. There was lots of food, games, paddle boarding, laughter and fun had by all our residents. Evenings like this are important for building relationships, having fun in recovery ...
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New FH Addition

Foundation House had this beautiful covered area over the smoking "pit" but we wanted to extend it to cover the barbecue area so that the guys could barbecue all year round AND it would preserve the life of the two barbecues. One of our amazingly talented residents Adam,...
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Soberfest 2024

Saturday, August 3 was the annual Soberfest event in Victoria. Umbrella was thrilled to have a tent/table at the event and chat with all the great folks that came by Soberfest for the fun, music  and sunshine. Louise, Shelagh, Amy and Jeff repping their Umbrella t-shirt...
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Lyca

It has been awhile since we posted pics and provided an update of our Lyca. Lyca is loving her life at Potter House with her favorite human James. During the day Lyca goes to Umbrella office 3 days per week, and goes to her second favorite human Jo's house 2 days per w...
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Community Resource Afternoon

On Friday, we had a "speed" resource education session with 4 representatives from their respective organizations come to Umbrella and share information about their programs and services with Umbrella front line workers. Ashley MacDonald came in to talk about Kopar, th...