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Recovery Day 2024

Yesterday was Recovery Day in Victoria. This event had taken a few years off and came back with a bang! Umbrella and New Roads partnered together to bring this event to Central Park with sponsorships from Island Health and Victoria Community Action Team. Lots of friend...
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United Way Kick Off

Today was the United Way Kick Off at Centennial Square. Umbrella was thrilled to be part of the big celebration and make new connections and reconnect with resources and friends. We are big United Way fans and have been fortunate to be a recipient of United Way funding ...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and every year Umbrella highlights and celebrates our local recovery heroes. Sue and her daughters Emily and Nicola are prominent members in the recovery community whether it is through their personal recovery or through the great work they d...
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UVIC Resource Fair

Today, Erik and Tina spent the day at UVIC manning the Umbrella table and fielding lots of questions from students and faculty. It is important for Umbrella and for the students to know about what we do, how we help and how they can help if they have a friend and/or love...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are very excited to share another one of our awesome year 3 folks, Barbara. Barbara has an energy and warmth ab0out her that spreads to everyone around her. She is positive, helpful and very sweet, and she is also inspires people aroun...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are very excited to share our next year 3 campaigner, Kevin. Kevin has the warmest smile and the biggest heart, and he is so incredibly proud of his recovery and we are too! He puts in the work, he gets the results and we think that is...
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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...