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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 ...
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Moss Street Market

On Saturday, Rebecca and Trevor spent the day at the Moss Street Market to field questions about Umbrella and the services we provide and how we can help. There were tons of visitors to our Umbrella tent, people in recovery coming to say hello, people curious about wha...
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Friends at Berwick

The amazing residents at Berwick Retirement Community put together a lovely gift basket for our clients to enjoy and also made a generous donation to Umbrella. Linda from Berwick popped into the Umbrella office to deliver the goodies and we were able to get a quick pic ...
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Soberfest 2024

Saturday, August 3 was the annual Soberfest event in Victoria. Umbrella was thrilled to have a tent/table at the event and chat with all the great folks that came by Soberfest for the fun, music  and sunshine. Louise, Shelagh, Amy and Jeff repping their Umbrella t-shirt...
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Lyca

It has been awhile since we posted pics and provided an update of our Lyca. Lyca is loving her life at Potter House with her favorite human James. During the day Lyca goes to Umbrella office 3 days per week, and goes to her second favorite human Jo's house 2 days per w...
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Community Resource Afternoon

On Friday, we had a "speed" resource education session with 4 representatives from their respective organizations come to Umbrella and share information about their programs and services with Umbrella front line workers. Ashley MacDonald came in to talk about Kopar, th...