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Spot the Sober Buses Contest

September is Recovery Month in BC and Umbrella is showcasing that recovery is possible in a big way. On our local buses. There are 8 different pictures of local people in recovery advertised on many buses on many routes. Here is the contest. The first person to find a...
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Costco & Guns N Roses

Sharlene is a Costco super fan and has made friends with many of the staff at Costco, and this week Sharlene and Laurie matched with their Guns N Roses t-shirts. Laurie is one of Sharlene's favourite cashiers and with their matching music taste it is no wonder! 
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Recipes for Recovery – Practice #3

Today in the Umbrella Kitchen, we ran round three of practicing recipes and timing, getting ready for the 4 week classes that are starting in September. It has been a lot of fun for the staff to take a minute away from the work they do and change the pace with chopping,...
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Project Re-Connect

Yesterday was Project Re-Connect at Royal Athletic Park. This annual event put on the by Downtown Service Providers invites service providers to host a table representing their organization and let the community that needs these supports come and learn about the services...
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Gulf Islands Driftwood

Check out the great article from the Gulf Islands Driftwood about Umbrella's visit to Salt Spring Island on July 26. You can read the article here.   
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Times Colonist Article

"Addiction is a non-discriminatory disease" said Evan James. "It affects the young, and the old, wealthy or poor." This is a snippet from the article that was in the Times Colonist today, read the whole piece here. Umbrella is incredibly grateful for the funding from ...
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SSI Presentation

Umbrella was invited to Salt Spring Island today to present to the community about what we do and how we help. We have grown our presence on this island in the past years with our outreach worker one day a week, and most recently with Umbrella partnering with BC Housing ...
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Galiano Road Trip

Rebecca and Evan headed over to Galiano on Tuesday to provide some community education to the folks on that island. Vesna, pictured with Evan and Rebecca below had asked for Umbrella to come and share a bit about what we do and how to support their folks over there. We ...
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Reading Library

Umbrella has started our own reading library! Thanks to a generous donation of books from our friends at Munro's books, we were able set up some bookcases and start our new library. We have already had some people help themselves to some new reading. Everyone is encou...
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Vital Youth & Evan

Umbrella was pleased to have been a recipient of the Vital Youth grant, funded by the Victoria Foundation and awarded by youth throughout high schools in Victoria. Evan joined the youth at St. Michaels as they shared their experience with the Vital Youth program and ho...