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Grade 9 Students

On Wednesday, January 8th, Umbrella had the opportunity to present to a grade 9 RAFT class at Esquimalt High School. The students were highly engaged and submitted thoughtful, anonymous questions about addiction and its impact on families and loved ones. We are excited ...
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Grade 11 Students

Today Umbrella presented to the grade 11 class at St Michaels. This engaged group of students were full of questions for Evan and Rebecca. The time spent after the presentations where students can have one on one time with our staff mean a lot to us, we really find tha...
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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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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,...
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Esquimalt Highschool Presentation – Grade 9’s

December 18th we were thrilled to have our first presentation at Esquimalt High School. Rebecca and Evan met with a RAFT class of Grade 9 students. There was lots of engagement and great questions were submitted by students. This was the first of multiple presentations ...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Presentation

To end the year we had a a professional development day inviting Borderline Personality Disorder Society of BC to present to our outreach and management teams. We had Bryan (vice president, group facilitator) and Josh (volunteer). They explained what Borderline Personal...