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Celebrating the Completion of the Umbrella Women’s Group’s

The Umbrella Women’s Group cohort has completed another transformative 6-week journey of recovery! Congratulations to all the attendees for their dedication and resilience. We are incredibly grateful to our amazing sponsors—our Angels —for funding this important program...
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Happy 1 Year Dan!

Yesterday, we were honored to celebrate Dan, a resident at Foundation House, for reaching the incredible milestone of 1 year of sobriety. What an amazing achievement—we're so proud of you, Dan! Check out the photo below of Dan with his cake. Keep up the fantastic work—...
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Happy 3 Years Johnny!

We celebrated Johnny, a resident at Potter House, and his incredible milestone of 3 years of sobriety. What a remarkable achievement, and we couldn’t be more proud! Below, you'll find photos of Johnny with his cake and sobriety chip. Keep shining, Johnny – sobriety loo...
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MLA Nina Krieger Visit

On December 20, Umbrella was pleased to show MLA Nina Krieger one of our recovery houses, Foundation House. This house is very special to the residents, the staff and the community and Nina could see the magic and healing that happens in this house. Housing Manager Erik ...
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Start the year with GRATITUDE

The definition of gratitude is "the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness". Umbrella is excited to share that our Tuesday gratitude group is back up and running for 2025. This popular group took December off to reset and pre...
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Bowling for James

Last night Erik and Derek took the Foundation House and Potter House guys bowling to celebrate James moving out on January 1. James has been a long time resident and leader in the houses and also officially adopted Lyca and is moving with her. We can speak for Lyca when...
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Thank you Manitoulin Transport

What a wonderful gift! Thank you to Jan Cromwell and Manitoulin Transport for this very generous donation made to Umbrella on Christmas Eve. Louise and Evan joined Jan in the picture and everyone was all smiles! This donation will be 100% be used to support our client...
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F-House Christmas

Foundation House is all ready for the big day! Thanks to our friends at TOPS, who support our residents each year, they guys are ready for Christmas. We are incredibly grateful to the folks at TOPS for filling a gift bag for each of our residents to open. Thank you!  ...
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Christmas Angels

Umbrella's Angels were busy delivering gifts and cheer on Friday. Their first stop was Cooper House where Barry greeted Deedrie and Penny and the angels filled the space under the tree. Then they stopped over at Potter House for a quick visit with the residents there an...
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Holidays at Albina

Last week Louise took our new HR Manager, Danielle, out for a resource tour day and when they stopped at the Albina housing site we work at, they were overjoyed to see the holiday decorations and festive plans for the residents. Josh and Jeff, our full time Albina staff,...