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Royals Tickets

Umbrella was stoked to pick up our season tickets for the Victoria Royals for our guys at Foundation House. Robbie, our new finance guy, grabbed the tickets off of our friend Kevin from the Royals. We love supporting local sports and love that our guys get to go out and...
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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 Umbrella is running another exciting recovery campaign showcasing local community members who are incredibly proud of their recovery and the work they put in to accomplish this. One of Umbrella's favourite humans, Dave is our next recovery...
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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 our next year 3 campaigners Derek and Scott. Derek and Scott remind us of the importance of social connections and friendships that build and grow in recovery. It is often said that in recovery you have to cha...
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Goodbye Dunedin

August 31 was the last day in Umbrella's second home, unit 8 -415 Dunedin. This office move was a huge leap for us in 2018, we had been renting an office out at Quadra Village Community Centre and took a chance on a bigger space at Dunedin. We started by only renting th...
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Hello Bridge Street

September 1 was the first day in our new space. Located at 2675 Bridge Street, Umbrella has made this our new, and third home. This space has so much natural light, a warm welcoming vibe and more space for us to help more people. We have been able to double our counsel...
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Community Hero

One of the residents, John H from Foundation House nominated Umbrella's own Kelsey as Hometown Hero, and Kelsey won the award! This wonderful hero award included Kelsey attending the BC Lions game, getting the spirit of the game going and being recognized as the Hometow...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are excited to share the first of this year's campaign. Lance and Tina. We love this pic, it captures them both so well and it was nice to see Lance smile. This month we are celebrating recovery on social media, buses and around the c...
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Debt Paid

A few months back we had an event celebrating Evan's 10 years with Umbrella. Staff, friends, family, board members and community partners all attended. We had some Evan trivia and Fred from SOLID was the winner! The prize was lunch with Evan and it took some time, but ...