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20 days and counting…

The pucks have arrived!! We are 20 days away from our Big Bad Bruins Alumni Charity Hockey game! The VIP tickets are almost gone, with a good selection of regular tickets still available. We have some big Bruin names coming out to take on our local firefighters. There...
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The honorary Bruins are…

We have three local Bruin fans joining the Alumni for game day on October 5. Come out and cheer on Erik Law, Gord Ditchburn and Rob James as they rock their authentic Boston Bruin jerseys and join Bourque, Iafrate, Linesmen and other NHL greats as take on the Greater Vi...
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Wanna play with the Bruins?

  On October 5, for the first time ever, the big bad Boston Bruins are coming to Victoria to play a charity hockey game against the Greater Victoria Firefighters to support Umbrella. Led by NHL Legend Ray Bourque, we are excited to welcome Al Iafrate, Ken Linesmen, Bo...
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Staff Fun

Today was Umbrella's annual mini golf fun day! The team went putting instead of having our weekly staff meeting and enjoyed a friendly boys vs girls competition. Blake feeling pretty confident about the boys chances Amy keeping an eye on her ball Bruce smiling...
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Fall Learning Series

Umbrella is excited to present Understanding Addiction, a workshop series for community members who want to learn about a wide rage of topics related to addiction and substance use. If you would like more information, please email us at wecanhelp@umbrellasociety.ca or ...
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Overdose Awareness Day

Today is Overdose Awareness Day and Umbrella is at Centennial Square to provide information, support and connection for those who attend. Victoria has been significantly impacted by the overdose crisis and we are all doing what we can to help end overdoses. Our board me...
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Big D celebrates 3

Tonight was a very special night at Cooper House. One of our residents, who we call Big D, celebrated his 3 years sober today! Staff, current and previous residents and friends all shared some ice cream cake and well wishes on this major milestone. We are so proud of B...
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TJ and Lyca meet!

  Today we had to take some stuff over to Cooper House and thought it would be fun to bring Lyca over to meet TJ. Lyca was sniffing the house like crazy but couldn't find TJ right away. She headed upstairs and found TJ sleeping on his persons bed and initially TJ was...
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Angela’s Send Off

Today, the team at Umbrella wished Angela well as she embarks on new adventures and challenges. Angela has resigned from her position with Umbrella and we took some time today to give her a proper Umbrella send off. The staff meeting today was reflective and celebratory...
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SMART Recovery

Umbrella is excited to announce that we are hosting a weekly SMART recovery meeting at our office starting Wednesday, August 21 at 12noon to 1:30. This drop in recovery support group is welcome to all and is facilitated by Lesley and Adrian. Lesley has been faciliating ...