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Hope & Pride Beads

This amazing human is Kelsey Burns, and she is incredibly talented. At Soberfest, Kelsey was a vendor that sold home-made bracelets to support the work that Umbrella does. She made 7 and sold 6 and then she came to our office to generously donate the funds she raised. ...
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Sweeny Moving

A huge shoutout to our friends at Sweeny Moving! Today they loaded up some new to Umbrella desks that we purchased and delivered them to our not yet open new office space just to help us out. This great local moving company are professional, helpful and careful and they...
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New FH Addition

Foundation House had this beautiful covered area over the smoking "pit" but we wanted to extend it to cover the barbecue area so that the guys could barbecue all year round AND it would preserve the life of the two barbecues. One of our amazingly talented residents Adam,...
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Soberfest 2024

Saturday, August 3 was the annual Soberfest event in Victoria. Umbrella was thrilled to have a tent/table at the event and chat with all the great folks that came by Soberfest for the fun, music  and sunshine. Louise, Shelagh, Amy and Jeff repping their Umbrella t-shirt...
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Community Resource Afternoon

On Friday, we had a "speed" resource education session with 4 representatives from their respective organizations come to Umbrella and share information about their programs and services with Umbrella front line workers. Ashley MacDonald came in to talk about Kopar, th...
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MLA Rob Fleming Visit

Today Evan and Erik met with MLA Rob Fleming and his advisor Rachel at Foundation House. F-House is in Rob's riding but we have never been able to make a visit work and we were thrilled that he took the time to learn more about Umbrella and our award winning recovery hou...
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Harbour Cats

On Wednesday evening, some of the guys from our recovery houses took in ball game. Thanks to tickets from Mayor Alto, our residents watched the Harbour Cats beat the Nanaimo Night Owls while enjoying the sunshine and soaking up the ball park energy. Having fun and doing...
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Coolaid AGM

Yesterday, Sharlene and Evan attended Coolaid's Annual General Meeting. Umbrella is pleased to work with Coolaid in our community and support the great work they do. We are excited about their new strategic plan and their goals for our community.
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Pride 2024

Sunday July 7 was Pride Day in Victoria. Umbrella was so excited to be a part of the parade and festival this year, a first time for us. Being our debut, we went BIG! Big flag, big love balls, big staff presence, big fun! There was also lots of fun and engagement with...
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We will miss you Max

Today, the Umbrella team shared barbecue burgers in honour of Max, who is leaving Umbrella and moving over to Island Health. Tomorrow is Max's last day. Max has been an integral part of the ICMT (Intensive Case Management Team) for well over a year and has had quite an ...