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Recovery Day 2024

Yesterday was Recovery Day in Victoria. This event had taken a few years off and came back with a bang! Umbrella and New Roads partnered together to bring this event to Central Park with sponsorships from Island Health and Victoria Community Action Team. Lots of friend...
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Royals Tickets

Umbrella was stoked to pick up our season tickets for the Victoria Royals for our guys at Foundation House. Robbie, our new finance guy, grabbed the tickets off of our friend Kevin from the Royals. We love supporting local sports and love that our guys get to go out and...
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United Way Kick Off

Today was the United Way Kick Off at Centennial Square. Umbrella was thrilled to be part of the big celebration and make new connections and reconnect with resources and friends. We are big United Way fans and have been fortunate to be a recipient of United Way funding ...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is Recovery Month and Umbrella is running another exciting recovery campaign showcasing local community members who are incredibly proud of their recovery and the work they put in to accomplish this. One of Umbrella's favourite humans, Dave is our next recovery...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and every year Umbrella highlights and celebrates our local recovery heroes. Sue and her daughters Emily and Nicola are prominent members in the recovery community whether it is through their personal recovery or through the great work they d...
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UVIC Resource Fair

Today, Erik and Tina spent the day at UVIC manning the Umbrella table and fielding lots of questions from students and faculty. It is important for Umbrella and for the students to know about what we do, how we help and how they can help if they have a friend and/or love...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and Umbrella is excited to share our annual recovery campaigners that proudly showcase their recovery. Darryl is a proud dad and husband, and everyone in Darryl's life and all of us at Umbrella are proud of Darryl's recovery. It takes a lot o...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are very excited to share our next year 3 campaigners Derek and Scott. Derek and Scott remind us of the importance of social connections and friendships that build and grow in recovery. It is often said that in recovery you have to cha...
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Recovery Campaign Y3

September is recovery month and we are very excited to share another one of our awesome year 3 folks, Barbara. Barbara has an energy and warmth ab0out her that spreads to everyone around her. She is positive, helpful and very sweet, and she is also inspires people aroun...
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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...