Umbrella E-News – Nov 16 2020
Umbrella's lastest enews is available now and is full of information about how we are moving forward as we look toward our 20th Anniversary. Please join us as we celebrate 20 years of hard work and community.
Halloween at our houses
We have some creative carvers at our houses again this year!
Also noticing a new trend of adding other vegetables to the pumpkins...
Happy Halloween from Umbrella and our awesome residents!
Happy 2 Years Erik!
Today is a very special day at Foundation House.
Erik, our amazing senior resident, is celebrating two years of sobriety!
A couple of the staff popped over to the house to surprise him and bring an ice cream cake (with his name spelt wrong- lol).
Erik's role at the hou...
Recovery Capital Conference
Today a small group of Umbrella staff got together to virtually participate in the Recovery Capital Conference.
Typically a couple of team members head over to New Westminster to join the conference,
but this year, as with most things, it was virtual.
Umbrella took adv...
Happy One Year Sober!
Last night at the Foundation House weekly meeting there was a wonderful celebration, and ice cream cake!
One of our awesome residents, Jonny, celebrated his one year of sobriety.
Jonny has been a gift to the house and to the guys, he is quiet, hard working and a leader ...
Thank You Forge!
We are so grateful to the be the recipient of a recent fundraiser at Forge Training.
They raised $435 for the Umbrella Society via a face mask fundraiser!
We are truly touched that this great local business took the time to fund raise on our behalf.
Thank you Forge!
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Cucumbers and gratitude
One of our wonderful board members Nancy, delivered about 50 pounds of cucumbers to Umbrella today.
Nancy and her green thumb husband grew these huge cucumbers in their yard
and shared their bounty with our grateful staff and our residents.
We all feel very fortunate t...
Our office is ONE!
On July 1, 2019 Umbrella moved to our own office space and we have never looked back.
This past year has been one of enormous growth and of change,
not just moving from Quadra Village Community Centre to Burnside Gorge area,
but our team, our programs, our services and...
Despedidas, Lesley
Today is our sweet Lesley's last day as a full time employee with Umbrella.
Lesley has been a quiet force at Umbrella and we have had the pleasure of watching her grow into a confident, kick-ass worker.
She has worked everywhere, including the SAMI/ICMT team, on Saltspr...
WOW! Have we grown!
Today was our first in-person staff meeting since March 18 and it was filled with A LOT of new faces!
On March 18 was there 19 employees and today we have 30!
(Missing in the photo is Cait, Dottie and Braelynne).
We spent a bit of time reconnecting and sharing about ou...