Follow-upinterviewswereconductedwitheachadolescent participant one year after initial observations and interviews. These interviews documented the participant’scurrentworkstatusandexploredtheirperceptions of how WBE had contributedto their careers. We chose one year as the time of the follow-up interviews for three reasons: we believed that we could still locate the youth, that they would have had an opportunity to assess the impacts of their experiences in WBE, and that, if the effects of WBE on resilience were fleeting, they would no longer be apparent after 12 months