Coding in Colour Academy

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What CIC Academy is

Coding in Colour Academy is the program that came before PRIME. It served a broader audience — under-served communities in Canada looking for career paths into tech and adjacent fields. The track record from CIC’s cohorts is what we point to when people ask whether the FFPF model works.

What we learned

The biggest thing CIC taught us: training and placement can’t be sequential. Programs that train people and then send them out the door always lose participants in the gap. Programs that work alongside participants from day one don’t.

That insight is the structural backbone of PRIME — concurrent training and career support, not “first this, then that.”

Track record

Across CIC’s cohorts: placement rates above 80% within three months of graduation, salary outcomes ranging from $40K to over $200K depending on sector, and a partner network that grew to 35 organizations.

What’s next

CIC Academy is archived as a standalone program. The model lives on in PRIME — and over time, we expect new FFPF programs to apply the same concurrent-support structure to new audiences.

If you’re curious about the methodology, the about page tells the longer story.