About Us

Welcome to AIMCanada

Our national AIMCanada Board is working with the AIMCanada TNC Board of Directors to put in place Career Mentorship opportunities for students. Our focus is to increase, support and recognize Corporate/Business Mentorship Programs and Individual Mentors within the Thompson Nicola Region. AIMCanada has several volunteer positions currently available.

AIMCanada has a donated office and legal services, and we are currently seeking a sponsor accounting firm. Our student volunteers are Graduate Program participants or 2nd/3rd year Undergrads who bring both the skills and passion to apply themselves. Our team’s goal is to create more paid mentorship opportunities for themselves and future students.

For Students & Graduates

Mentorship, skill development and information programs are designed around each group’s needs: career identification or career development. Students get the chance to directly apply their skills and theory to gain work experience, network with our Marketing/Mentor Team, develop an individual Career/Job Search Plan, learn current job-search tools, and secure a personal written reference for job search and career development.

Mentorship creates a career-focused, life-changing opportunity for both the mentor and AIMCanada’s youth mentees. Members can log in to explore the full benefits of mentorship.

For Corporations & Businesses

About 20% of current corporations and businesses support their employees as individual mentors or run an organized corporate mentorship program. AIMCanada helps set up mentorship programs and connects them, where applicable, to local universities and training institutes. For individual employees, we provide registration, certification and screening.

Thank You for Your Vision and Commitment

Thank you to the volunteers, founding donors, corporations and businesses who have been so supportive of this Canadian initiative. Our youth and communities in the region benefit from your vision and generosity. Creating more choices in our economy for highly educated, skilled and ambitious youth through mentorship, and fostering entrepreneurship, benefits everyone.

Board of Directors

Dawn Koch — Interim Chair & Founder
Dawn Koch is the Founder of AIMCanada Mentorship Society. The vision for this Canadian career mentorship/development nonprofit came from Dawn’s 35+ years of work as a Career Consultant/Counsellor and her desire to ensure a more effective structure for career transition and development is taught to students and graduates. Dawn’s experience includes 35 years as a business owner, career consultant/counsellor and adult education instructor; 10 years as an elected school trustee; 10 years on the United Way board; 12 years as a Medical Laboratory Technologist at RIH; and 8 years as a foster parent.
Email: dkoch@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Chris Han
Email: chan@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Eli (Christine) Martel-Webster — Director, Resource Development
Christine Martel-Webster has 15 years of experience in counselling with Interior Health’s long-term care facilities, the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre, and organizations in Australia including Lifeline Gold Coast Queensland and the Endeavour Foundation. She became co-owner of Access Picture Framing and Art Supplies in Valleyview, Kamloops in August 2019, and has served on boards including United Way Western Australia. She also brings over 30 years of management and 27 years of occupational health and safety experience.
Email: cmartelwebster@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Julia Sonier
Email: jsonier@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Vishav Rajput
Email: vrajput@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Denis Lessard
Email: dlessard@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

April Chapin
Email: achapin@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Cynthia Travers — Director, Agency Mentorship
Email: ctravers@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Jan Atkinson
Email: jatkinson@aimfoundationofcanada.ca

Interested in developing Career Mentorship Services for students and graduates in our region, or in becoming part of AIMCanada’s long-term Chapter Network across Canada? Contact Dawn Koch at dkoch@aimfoundationofcanada.ca.