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Happy 1 Year Jeremy

Yesterday, we celebrated Jeremy, a resident at Foundation House, and his incredible one-year milestone of sobriety. What a remarkable achievement, and we couldn’t be prouder! Below are photos of Jeremy with his cake and his roommates marking this special occasion. Keep ...
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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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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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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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Halloween at our houses

The residents at our houses were busy carving up some pumpkins in preparation for trick or treating tonight. This is one of our favourite activities each year, the residents really get creative and have a lot of fun. Candy is stocked, pumpkins are carved - we are ready ...
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Royals Tickets

Umbrella was stoked to pick up our season tickets for the Victoria Royals for our guys at Foundation House. Robbie, our new finance guy, grabbed the tickets off of our friend Kevin from the Royals. We love supporting local sports and love that our guys get to go out and...
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Community Hero

One of the residents, John H from Foundation House nominated Umbrella's own Kelsey as Hometown Hero, and Kelsey won the award! This wonderful hero award included Kelsey attending the BC Lions game, getting the spirit of the game going and being recognized as the Hometow...
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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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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...