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Podcast Season 3/E6 – Stephanie

In today's episode, Blake sits down with Stephanie who tells her story of resilience as she faced and overcame her challenges with mental health and addiction in her youth. Stephanie sheds light on how hard it can be to be facing such profound challenges at such a young...
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Counsellor Coleman Visit

Today City of Victoria Counsellor Chris Coleman spent some time at Umbrella's new office with Sharlene and Evan catching up on all things Umbrella. We love meeting with people in our local community, sharing stories and strengthening connections. Thanks for spending some...
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Grade 12 presentation at Spectrum High School

On Tuesday, January 21, Evan and Rebecca had the pleasure of presenting to a group of grade 12 students at Spectrum Community High School. Their presentation was about everything that Umbrella offers and how easy it is to reach out for support. Evan and Rebecca shared the...
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Grade 12 presentation SMU

On Friday, Evan and Rebecca delivered their final presentation of the year at St. Michael's University School. Since the fall, Umbrella has had the privilege of presenting to all senior grade students at SMU (grades 9-12). Joining the presentation were Dee Dee and Alicia...
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Grade 9 Students

On Wednesday, January 8th, Umbrella had the opportunity to present to a grade 9 RAFT class at Esquimalt High School. The students were highly engaged and submitted thoughtful, anonymous questions about addiction and its impact on families and loved ones. We are excited ...
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Grade 11 Students

Today Umbrella presented to the grade 11 class at St Michaels. This engaged group of students were full of questions for Evan and Rebecca. The time spent after the presentations where students can have one on one time with our staff mean a lot to us, we really find tha...
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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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Start the year with GRATITUDE

The definition of gratitude is "the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness". Umbrella is excited to share that our Tuesday gratitude group is back up and running for 2025. This popular group took December off to reset and pre...
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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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Thank you Manitoulin Transport

What a wonderful gift! Thank you to Jan Cromwell and Manitoulin Transport for this very generous donation made to Umbrella on Christmas Eve. Louise and Evan joined Jan in the picture and everyone was all smiles! This donation will be 100% be used to support our client...