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Pranking Zack

Yesterday Zack, a huge Edmonton Oilers fan, put a small note on Jake's Vancouver Canucks flag. This turned into Jake, a huge Vancouver Canucks fan, needing to return the gesture, but on a bigger level. Having access to Zack's outreach calendar came in handy as Jake and ...
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BBQ for Evan

Today we celebrated Evan! Next week is Evan's 10 years with Umbrella, but he will be away, so we celebrated early. We had family, friends and employees all gather for a bbq at Umbrella headquarters. Trevor manned the bbq and we had Evan trivia that went a lightening ro...
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MHSU Advisory Committee Awards

On Tuesday, Umbrella hosted the 8th annual Mental Health and Substance Use Advisory Committee awards at our office. These important awards highlight the good work of our community members and organizations while celebrating those who work and support others in the MHSU f...
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Albina turns 1

Yesterday was a day for celebration at the Albina site where Umbrella works with Our Place. It was one year ago that the newly purpose built housing site had completed building and had residents moving in. The weather held out, burgers were grilled, cake was eaten and f...
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RBC Chat

Today, folks from RBC branches joined Evan and Sharlene for a conversation about Umbrella and how RBC can help. We at Umbrella love partnering with RBC, they share a similar community vision and values as we do and they enjoy supporting non-profits, like Umbrella, to make...
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Resident Bowling

On Wednesday night, all the residents from our three houses met at Foundation House for pizza and then they headed out to Langford Lanes for some fun bowling. Staff Zack, Kelsey and Erik all joined in on the fun and Erik beat everyone at bowling!! These events are reall...
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Vic High Resource Fair

Today, Sean and Evan are at the Resource Fair at Vic High School. This is an important event to be at, to answer questions, provide support and make connections. This all day resource fair, is also an opportunity for community members to learn more about Umbrella and fo...
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Administrative Professionals Day

Today is Administrative Professional Day and we think this is a pretty important day. Sharlene took the admin team for lunch and a bit of self care and fun, while Blake and Jake manned the office. Admin are the foundation of every organization and we couldn't do the wor...
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Adios Albina!

Today Sean had his last day at Albina. Sean is moving into an Outreach role at Umbrella, but has really captured the hearts of the residents and our Our Place partners. They had a little going away shin dig for him. Josh is staying put at Albina and our new Lucy is joi...
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Annual Costco Trip

About once a year Sharlene drags Evan to Costco to do the house shopping. Today Zack was working at the hospital so Evan had to step in and push one of the two carts and follow a carefully crafted grocery list... a big ask. Costco is Evan's least favourite place, and it...