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Presentation

Today, Karen Urbanoski from Canadian Insititute for Substance Use Research at UVIC and Umbrella's Team Lead, Evan James presented to over 100 interested individuals about the different understandings of addiction and implications for treatment. This dialogue provided a...
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Outreach Team

Check out this photo of Umbrella's awesome outreach team. This group genuinely care about clients, our community and each other. Evan, our Team Lead is in the centre, with the outreach folks around him. Some have specialities like Jake on Saltspring Island and Cait our...
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Our favourite photographer

We have a favourite photographer and we want to tell everyone about her! Erin Ruff has been taking our staff, board and dog photos for many years, and captured our last hockey game too. We just updated our staff photos - check them out! She is wonderful to work with an...
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Staff Fun

Every Wednesday the team gets together for a staff meeting. We rotate chairs weekly and this week was Conor's turn to facilitate the meeting. Everyone has been so busy and working hard that Conor planned something fun, and it was a hit! We all had to try and guess the ...
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Chamber Business Lunch

Sharlene and Blake, our Housing Manager, attending the Chamber of Commerce business luncheon with CEO of BC Housing, Shayne Ramsay. It is always great to attend these events and meet other people passionate about housing and our community. And a bonus was sitting with G...
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Project Connect 2020

Today was Project Connect at Kirk Hall. Louise and Laura were on hand to help with questions, share information and provide support as needed. This event is an annual one, typically in October. This year, the organizers changed it to January and I think the community ap...
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Snow Day Closure

For the safety of our staff and clients, Umbrella will be closed Wednesday, January 15th, due to snow. This closure will include the noon SMART Recovery group at our office. If you have any questions or concerns please email us at wecanhelp@umbrellasociety.ca and we w...
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Thank you Cold Comfort!

Thank you so much to Cold Comfort for their recent fundraiser for the Umbrella Society! For the month of December, the local ice cream hot spot donated all proceeds from scoops of ice cream to the Umbrella Society. Support from the business community is always so very ...
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Good Bye Mike

Umbrella staff have said goodbye to Mike from the SURF team. Mike will continue to support the community as a team member at AVI. Mike has been an incredible asset to Umbrella, working in multiple roles from housing, to outreach and even venturing to Salt Spring Island. M...
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2 Years!!!

We are incredibly proud to celebrate our weekend housing worker, Bruce. Today marks two years of sobriety and active recovery for him. We are so grateful that Bruce chooses to share his skills with our residents (and Lyca!) and we wish his all the best on this great day....