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Thank you Cold Comfort!

Thank you so much to Cold Comfort for their recent fundraiser for the Umbrella Society! For the month of December, the local ice cream hot spot donated all proceeds from scoops of ice cream to the Umbrella Society. Support from the business community is always so very ...
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Good Bye Mike

Umbrella staff have said goodbye to Mike from the SURF team. Mike will continue to support the community as a team member at AVI. Mike has been an incredible asset to Umbrella, working in multiple roles from housing, to outreach and even venturing to Salt Spring Island. M...
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2 Years!!!

We are incredibly proud to celebrate our weekend housing worker, Bruce. Today marks two years of sobriety and active recovery for him. We are so grateful that Bruce chooses to share his skills with our residents (and Lyca!) and we wish his all the best on this great day....
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Christmas Party 2019

Last night was our annual staff/board Christmas mixer, this year we held it at our new office! This space was perfect for chatting, eating and playing our annual gift stealing game. All in all it was another fun Umbrella event! Nicole and Amy chatting and socializing...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...