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Recipes for Recovery – Practice #3

Today in the Umbrella Kitchen, we ran round three of practicing recipes and timing, getting ready for the 4 week classes that are starting in September. It has been a lot of fun for the staff to take a minute away from the work they do and change the pace with chopping,...
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Project Re-Connect

Yesterday was Project Re-Connect at Royal Athletic Park. This annual event put on the by Downtown Service Providers invites service providers to host a table representing their organization and let the community that needs these supports come and learn about the services...
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Recipes for Recovery – Outreach class

Umbrella is getting ready for our new cooking program that is starting in September. For the month of August we are trying out recipes and making sure any issues are addressed prior to the program launch. Every Friday we have some staff and our board joining our Recipes...
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Happy 5 years Blake!

It was 5 years ago today that Blake joined the Umbrella team. Blake manages many of our programs but his start was in outreach. Blake has since started up our podcasts, oversees new projects and helps get the word of recovery out in the community. Blake doesn't eat...
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Times Colonist Article

"Addiction is a non-discriminatory disease" said Evan James. "It affects the young, and the old, wealthy or poor." This is a snippet from the article that was in the Times Colonist today, read the whole piece here. Umbrella is incredibly grateful for the funding from ...
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SSI Presentation

Umbrella was invited to Salt Spring Island today to present to the community about what we do and how we help. We have grown our presence on this island in the past years with our outreach worker one day a week, and most recently with Umbrella partnering with BC Housing ...
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Join our Board.

Umbrella is looking to grow our Board of Directors. Two of our current directors have reached their six year time commitment and are moving on. The right applicants are curious, kind and committed to the work of Umbrella. If you are interested in being apart of an amaz...
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6 year work anniversary!

Today was an important day at Umbrella! Brianna celebrated 6 years with us today, and we got a beautiful ice cream cake to share with the staff. Often Brianna gets forgotten with her work anniversaries since she is the one that keeps track of them, so this year we made...
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Podcast Episode 10

Comfortably Un-Numb: The Podcast Episode 10 is now live! In the final episode of our first season, Blake speaks with Meaghan Barker an outspoken member of the recovery community who will be celebrating 16 years sober this year. Meaghan was part of our first recovery camp...
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Pizza, cake and goodbyes

Tonight staff, residents and alumni all piled into the yard at Foundation House to give Erik a proper send off. We had 14 large pizzas, a huge slab ice cream cake and some Erik trivia, which was actually a bit of an Erik roast! Staff shared stories of Erik when he first...