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Engaged for Good

Umbrella is extremely grateful to win this years Engaged for Good HR support through Engaged HR. Umbrella takes a lot of pride in our staff and we work hard to support them and engage them as long term partners. In order to do that, we have to consistently look at our pr...
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So…we bought a house!!!!

Today at noon, Umbrella became the owners of Foundation House, the supportive recovery house for men we have been operating for almost 5 years. The owner, Clive, pictured below with our ED Sharlene, offered Umbrella the house below market value earlier last year, with...
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CFB Esquimalt

Today Lesley and Cait, both on the Addiction Medicine Consult Service Team, spent the day at CFB Esquimalt for the service provider expo. These events are great opportunities to meet new people, have great conversations and break down stigma. Lots of people stopped by, ...
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Meet the ICM Team

Formerly the SAMI Team, ICM (Intensive Case Management) Team is a partnership program with Island Health and AVI. This team provides meaningful support to some of our most vulnerable community members. Nicole and Justin offer outreach support with both kindness and comp...
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Presentation

Today, Karen Urbanoski from Canadian Insititute for Substance Use Research at UVIC and Umbrella's Team Lead, Evan James presented to over 100 interested individuals about the different understandings of addiction and implications for treatment. This dialogue provided a...
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Lunch with Angels

Today, Sharlene and Blake joined a lovely group of community members appropriately called "Angels" for lunch and an update. Over the past year, this generous group has been doing a monthly grocery shop with the residents of Cooper and Hudson Houses. The residents are so...
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Chamber Business Lunch

Sharlene and Blake, our Housing Manager, attending the Chamber of Commerce business luncheon with CEO of BC Housing, Shayne Ramsay. It is always great to attend these events and meet other people passionate about housing and our community. And a bonus was sitting with G...
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Thank you St Aidans Church

There are not enough ways to say thank you! Today St Aidans Church members donated $11, 178 to Umbrella which 100% of this donation will be applied to the downpayment for Foundation House that we are working so hard to secure. The staff and board are incredibly grateful...
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Project Connect 2020

Today was Project Connect at Kirk Hall. Louise and Laura were on hand to help with questions, share information and provide support as needed. This event is an annual one, typically in October. This year, the organizers changed it to January and I think the community ap...
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Thank you Cold Comfort!

Thank you so much to Cold Comfort for their recent fundraiser for the Umbrella Society! For the month of December, the local ice cream hot spot donated all proceeds from scoops of ice cream to the Umbrella Society. Support from the business community is always so very ...