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Podcast Season 2/E5 – Dawn

In today’s episode, Blake sits down with Dawn, the co-founder of She Recovers Foundation, a nonprofit grassroots movement helping women seeking recovery from substance use disorders, mental health challenges and other life challenges. Dawn shares her inspiring personal s...
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F*cking washcloths

These are special F$CK'n washcloths... Inspired during a long weekend trail run (as one typically is), Jen Harrison and Silvia Fehr were struck with a bold and somewhat non-conventional fundraising idea. "Let's knit and sell washcloths with...
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Sovereign Order of St John

Yesterday Umbrella was grateful to receive a generous check to help fund our popular Recipes for Recovery program. The Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller does amazing work in our community, and has for the past 1000 years! Incredible! Mary and ...
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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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Youth Service Providers Event

Today, Autumn and Evan are at the West Shore/Sooke Child and Youth Service Providers Event manning the Umbrella table. This event took place at the Eagle Ridge Community Centre and is a great opportunity for service providers to connect and network and to reach the yout...
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Josh

Thank you to the United Way South Island for showcasing Josh and highlighting his story. Josh was sick of being sick. And when you’re sick, it’s hard to take care of your family. He’d been battling his addictions for years, and every time he thought he had it beat, ...
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CSAM Conference

Umbrella is pleased to be a part of the CSAM Scientific Conference happening today in Victoria. Louise, Rebecca and Evan are all attending and participating in this great event. Opportunities like this are so important for our staff and community to learn from each othe...
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Marathon for Umbrella

Fundraiser by Nadeige Levesque This summer I've been training to run the Royal Victoria Marathon. I'm dedicating my 42km to all the beautiful people who have lost their lives or who are currently struggling with mental health and the commonly co-occurring sub...
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Mental Health Roundtable

Umbrella was pleased to be involved in a mental health roundtable conversation about the important role of peer support in our health care system. Minster of Mental Health and Addictions, Hon Jennifer Whitesside and MLA Grace Lore were the leads and some great conversati...
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Youth Volunteer Fair

Today at St Michaels University, Kaija and Jake are engaging with youth to learn more about where and how they would like to volunteer. Umbrella doesn't have many volunteer positions outside of our volunteer board, but we are eager to hear what we could do differently. W...