Here are a few examples of provincial models as they now exist :

New Brunswick:  The CFS Program in New Brunswick is delivered through 13 high school based workshops and one main coordinating workshop.  Indeed, the Ministry of Education of New Brunswick took advantage of the opportunity provided by the CFS Program to build a Tech Support Program that is delivered on-line to students across the province.  Not only are students accessing technical training, they are able to access and troubleshoot using “live” computer hardware that is afterwards re-used in the school system.  As a bonus, these students become “mini experts” in their own school and community.  Some will go for their A+ Certification exams, while others will decide to pursue their studies in the field.  As a special project, a number of students have gone as far as to network their entire school with the help of a local IT company.  More than 600 students per year have the opportunity to access the New Brunswick Tech Support Program.

Quebec:  Ordinateurs pour les écoles du Québec delivers most of its Program through third party organizations that are specialized in social integration of adults or “youth-at-risk”.  For example, the Angus Insertech model in Montreal boast a 90% success rate with “on the street youth-at-risk”.  These young people either go back to school, find a job, or end up opening their own small business.  The Centre provides social integration support and work experience opportunity in the building and refurbishing of computers and the provision of technical support services to the community.

Ontario:   CFS-Ontario has at least 3 three delivery models, the most interesting ones being in Northern Ontario, Scarborough and Sharbot Lake.  In Sudbury, le Collège Boréal offers an IT Apprenticeship Program to high school students alongside the refurbishing activities of the CFS Program.  High school students that are at risk of dropping out, are easily attracted to the IT Apprenticeship Program.  In most cases, these students will either decide to pursue their studies at the college level (especially since the Apprenticeship Program is offered right in the college) or try to find employment after graduating from the program.  This Apprenticeship Program has been so successful that the College has expanded it to other communities in Sturgeon Falls, New Liskeard and Timmins.

Manitoba:  CFS-Manitoba has been operating a refurbishing workshop at the Headingley Correctional Centre in partnership with the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development and Manitoba Advanced Education and Training and Headingley Correctional Centre.  The initiative has several objectives: to provide inmates with marketable job skills, to improve inmates’ chances of finding employment in their communities and reduce the likelihood that they would re-offend, and to provide people from northern and remote communities with the technical knowledge and expertise necessary to maintain computers in schools, businesses and homes, in health centers and social service organizations, and in community access sites.  The project provides inmates with hands-on experience building and repairing computers as preparation for the A+ certification exam.  The project also develops general work competencies such as punctuality, teamwork, customer service, problem solving, etc.  The Headingley project is so successful that the Correctional Facility has committed its own resources to continue offering the program.  The pilot is now being repeated outside the correction system in Thompson, Manitoba and in Marieval, Saskatchewan.

Aboriginal Community Models in Brocket (Alberta), Prince George (B.C.), La Ronge (Saskatchewan), Yellowknife (N.W.T.), Thompson (Manitoba),  Headingley Correctional Institute (Manitoba), Sydney (N.S.):  All of these aboriginal workshops are aligned to training and work experience programs that are most or less similar to the one described above.  The one in Brocket is particularly interesting in the sense that it combines a CAP Centre, a CFS refurbishing capacity and high speed connectivity support provided by First Nations SchoolNet.  In very little time, this centre has become a hub for ICT integration in the community, access to e-learning and innovativeness.