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Foundation House is 4

Last night the housing staff and residents celebrated being Foundation House homeowners for 4 years. To be clear, F-H0use is much older than 4, but it has been 4 years since Umbrella purchased the house. Umbrella began operating Foundation House in April 2015, and w...
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Podcast Season 2/E9 – Scott

Today, Blake talks to Scott, a Foundation House alumni who experienced a unique and challenging recovery journey. Scott dives into the interventions and supports which helped him achieve his goals in recovery. Have a listen on our podcast page! 
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Thank you Times Colonist

Yesterday, Ian from the Sovereign Order of St John delivered a generous check, on behalf of the Sovereign Order and the Times Colonist to Evan at Umbrella. These funds will be used to offset the rising costs of food at our recovery houses, which allows us to continue to ...
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Our Anawim Tree

Every year Anawim generously donates a Christmas tree to Foundation House, and this we got this beauty. Sharlene and Evan headed down to Anawim to meet up with Terry and pick the perfect tree. It isn't Christmas at our houses without Anawim! Thank you!!
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Halloween at our houses

Last night was pumpkin carving at all our recovery houses. It is always a lot of fun for the residents to just socialize and engage with each other and our housing manager, Zack. A big thank you to Umbrella's Angels who provided all the pumpkins for our residents to car...
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Recovery Month – Conor

September is recovery month! Every year Umbrella celebrates this important month by sharing messages of recovery from some of our favourite people. Meet Conor. Conor was a previous Umbrella employee who worked in programs like the ER and in our AMCS program at VGH, Out...
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Healing yard at F-House

Umbrella was so excited to receive a Community Wellness Grant to upgrade the backyard at Foundation House. This generous grant allowed us to hire Koi Dragon Landscaping and have them turn what was a boring, uninspiring yard into an oasis of healing and sanctuary. The re...
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Happy One Year Nic!

Today is a big day for our Recipes for Recovery leader Nic. He is one year sober. This is a huge milestone and deserved to be celebrated with cupcakes, cards and all the attention ! We are super proud of him and all the amazing work he is doing in Umbrella's newest coo...
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Pizza, cake and goodbyes

Tonight staff, residents and alumni all piled into the yard at Foundation House to give Erik a proper send off. We had 14 large pizzas, a huge slab ice cream cake and some Erik trivia, which was actually a bit of an Erik roast! Staff shared stories of Erik when he first...
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One year of sobriety!

Last night the guys at Foundation House celebrated Iain and his one year of sobriety. Iain works his recovery program daily and is a leader in the house for the other residents. Recently Iain was selected for the role of senior resident at Foundation House, which is a ...