On November 27th, 2025, the Alberta Immigrant Mentorship Network (AIMN) met with Toyin Odelele, the Founder and Executive Director of the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (ICAI); and Glenys Reeves-Gibbs, a Community Leader with the Lloydminster Mentorship Program, to discuss how mentorship is often seen to guide, support, and inspire, but it can also help mentees secure employment.
On December 10th, 2025, the Alberta Immigrant Mentorship Network (AIMN) met for a discussion and reflection on the future of mentoring in Alberta, and to share insights from the recent Mentoring Summit in November by Mentor Canada.
Curious about how your organization can integrate mentorship into programs and events? Join our guest speakers, Salome Asea, Juan Arias, and Christine Parent, for our latest AIMN event! Pick up tips on how you can incorporate mentorship in your programs and events.
For many mentorship programs, recruiting mentors with the necessary background and desire to mentor who meet the needs of their mentees is an ongoing challenge. In 2025, pressures on business and organizations related to volatile economic conditions, affordability challenges and skills shortages can squeeze out the time and capacity needed to be a volunteer mentor. In this session, we discuss as a community of practice the challenges and opportunities of being a mentor and what makes a difference in recruiting quality mentors.
Since 2019, we have learned alongside organizational partners about the challenges, strategies and community-grown ideas to connect newcomer mentees with mentors. We see the strength, expertise and growth of the network as one of the key gains of the Alberta Mentorship Program. So we thought it was time for a new name. In January 2025, the Alberta Mentorship Program (AMP) becomes the Alberta Immigrant Mentorship Network (AIMN).