Umbrella is Hiring
We are excited to share that Umbrella is looking for another amazing human to join our team!
Please take a look at our Employment Opportunities page and share widely with your communities.
Anawim Tree 2019
One of our favorite yearly traditions is shopping for Christmas trees at Anawim House.
Anawim has been a great community partner over the years and they always have the most incredible trees!
A big thank you to Terry for helping Evan pick out the perfect ones for our re...
Staff Christmas Fun 2019
Christmas came early for the Umbrella Staff! We all got together yesterday to celebrate the season and each other.
There was delish food from noodle box and tons of games.
We challenged each others knowledge about each other with a staff quiz which Evan won.
(And c...
Axe throwing
Tonight for a bit of fun, the Foundation House residents and a few of the housing staff went to Axe and Grind and threw some axes around.
The house counsellor Terry is away so we snuck the boys out of the house for some fun instead of their weekly house meeting.
We have...
Issues of Substance
We are pretty proud of our Conor who is currently in Ottawa at the Issue of Substance conference.
He has been working with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and
people with living experience at SOLID on cultural safety in the hospitals.
Conor looks pret...
Dr Coutts Visit
At our staff meeting on Wednesday, Dr. Joyce Coutts joined us to talk about substance use and older adults.
This is an area that we all need to learn more about and we were grateful for Dr. Coutt's expertise and guidance as she provided the team with lots of helpful tips...
New signage
We have signage!
Our awesome neighbours at Creative Sign Design located at #5-416 Garbally Road
came by and put our our logo and address in our beautiful orange colour on our front door.
Leya was so helpful and professional and her work is incredible.
We are loving ou...
2 years sober!
Last night some staff from Umbrella many Foundation House and Cooper House residents
and a very special guest, Justin's mom, all gathered to celebrate a very special day.
Justin, who lived at Foundation House for 18 months and was the senior resident for much of that ti...
Housing Provider of the Year!!
On Sunday, November 17 Umbrella was awarded the Housing Provider of the Year award!
Sharlene and Blake, Housing Manager, were at the event to accept the award.
This is a true honour to be recognized for our housing program, the staff, board and all our residents are gra...
Halloween Community Support
How amazing is this?
Pete and Brenda, pictured here with the Umbrella team, had their 3rd annual Halloween Haunted House and had a couple of Umbrella donation tins on hand.
Today, they joined us at our staff meeting to bring an extremely generous donation of $1415.10!
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