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Grade 11 Students

Today Umbrella presented to the grade 11 class at St Michaels. This engaged group of students were full of questions for Evan and Rebecca. The time spent after the presentations where students can have one on one time with our staff mean a lot to us, we really find tha...
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MLA Nina Krieger Visit

On December 20, Umbrella was pleased to show MLA Nina Krieger one of our recovery houses, Foundation House. This house is very special to the residents, the staff and the community and Nina could see the magic and healing that happens in this house. Housing Manager Erik ...
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Start the year with GRATITUDE

The definition of gratitude is "the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness". Umbrella is excited to share that our Tuesday gratitude group is back up and running for 2025. This popular group took December off to reset and pre...
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Bowling for James

Last night Erik and Derek took the Foundation House and Potter House guys bowling to celebrate James moving out on January 1. James has been a long time resident and leader in the houses and also officially adopted Lyca and is moving with her. We can speak for Lyca when...
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Thank you Manitoulin Transport

What a wonderful gift! Thank you to Jan Cromwell and Manitoulin Transport for this very generous donation made to Umbrella on Christmas Eve. Louise and Evan joined Jan in the picture and everyone was all smiles! This donation will be 100% be used to support our client...
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F-House Christmas

Foundation House is all ready for the big day! Thanks to our friends at TOPS, who support our residents each year, they guys are ready for Christmas. We are incredibly grateful to the folks at TOPS for filling a gift bag for each of our residents to open. Thank you!  ...
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Christmas Angels

Umbrella's Angels were busy delivering gifts and cheer on Friday. Their first stop was Cooper House where Barry greeted Deedrie and Penny and the angels filled the space under the tree. Then they stopped over at Potter House for a quick visit with the residents there an...
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Holidays at Albina

Last week Louise took our new HR Manager, Danielle, out for a resource tour day and when they stopped at the Albina housing site we work at, they were overjoyed to see the holiday decorations and festive plans for the residents. Josh and Jeff, our full time Albina staff,...
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Esquimalt Highschool Presentation – Grade 9’s

December 18th we were thrilled to have our first presentation at Esquimalt High School. Rebecca and Evan met with a RAFT class of Grade 9 students. There was lots of engagement and great questions were submitted by students. This was the first of multiple presentations ...
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Holiday Festivities

Our last Umbrella staff social of 2024 was Wednesday and we had a full turnout. There was  yummy food and fun festive games, where people participating had to wear oven mitts, to unwrap a layer of gift paper, after 10 seconds passing to the next person until the prize wa...