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TJ’s Fur-ever Home

Today is TJ's last day living in one of our houses. Umbrella adopted TJ a few years ago and he lived at Foundation House, where he met his best friend. When his bff moved to Cooper House, TJ went with him and they have lived there together for well over a year. Today, ...
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Our badass Amy

Amy, who has been with Umbrella for just over 2 years, was part of the government's Single Parent Employment Initiative in 2017. Amy currently works at the Pandora Clinic and is an essential support to their patients. This girl is a survivor, a fighter and is a dedicate...
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Umbrella and COVID 19

How Umbrella is managing with the COVID 19 pandemic During these uncertain times with social distancing, self-isolating and staying healthy, the Umbrella team is still working hard, we have just made some changes on how we are working. For our clients, we are still pr...
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Celebration of Excellence

Umbrella's amazing board member Cindy Trytten was the recipient of the Celebration of Excellence Award from Island Health for developing and maintaining collaborative partnerships that benefit the organization, colleagues, clients, and the communities we serve. In 2012, ...
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The story of … Conor

Every month in 2020, Umbrella is celebrating our employees work anniversaries. Amy was celebrated in January. Louise, Bronwyn, Bruce and Nicole were all celebrated in February. But March is all about Conor. Conor has been with Umbrella for several years, starting as a...
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Team Fun

Today, instead of our usual afternoon staff meeting the team met at Soap for Hope to volunteer. We helped shave soap, funnel shampoo, conditioner and body lotion into jugs, and we cut labels for soap packets. It was a great way to work together as a team doing something...
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Meet the Foundation House Team

It takes a team to run Foundation House smoothly, and this team is awesome! Under the leadership of Blake, our Housing Manager, we have Evan, Terry, Sharlene, Bruce and Justin working at the house. Evan and Blake run the morning meetings, with Sharlene as backfill and t...
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Meet the AMCS/ER Team

On "Meet the Team Tuesday", we wanted to highlight the great work Lesley, Conor and Cait do at Umbrella. These three amazing workers are located at Royal Jubilee and Victoria General Hospitals. Lesley works at the Jubilee on the Addiction Medicine Consult Service and ...
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So…we bought a house!!!!

Today at noon, Umbrella became the owners of Foundation House, the supportive recovery house for men we have been operating for almost 5 years. The owner, Clive, pictured below with our ED Sharlene, offered Umbrella the house below market value earlier last year, with...
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Chamber Lunch

Evan and Sharlene spent the lunch hour getting a comprehensive update of budget 2020 from the Minister of Finance. Lots of good stuff in there, especially liking the affordable housing and poverty reduction plans. There was some good conversations had, and new friends m...