Results indicated that students in both skills-training conditions expressed lower intentions to drink beer or wine relative to students in the control group and students in the LST condition had lower intentions to drink hard liquor and use illicit drugs. Both skills-training conditions also influenced several mediating variables found to influence the decision not to use ATODs. According to these results, both prevention approaches were equally effective,producing significant reductions in intentions to drink and use illicit drugs and suggesting that a generic ATOD abuse prevention approach with high generalization may be as effective as a program tailored to individual ethnic populations. As a result, these data provide support for the hypothesis that a single ATOD abuse prevention strategy can be used effectively with multi-ethnic populations