We wrote field notes and held informal conversations with participants during and following our observations. One formal interview of 45 minutes was conducted with each at-risk youth, WBE teacher, and workplace supervisor. The student interviews focused ontheirperceptionsofadversityintheir lives, theirreasons for enrolling in WBE, and the benefits and challenges they perceived in their WBE programs. The interviews with the WBE teachers and workplace supervisors focused on their perceptions of the at-risk status of the adolescent participants, of the essential characteristics of the WBE program in which they worked, and of their role interacting with the students to enable the students to succeed in WBE. We also asked