The target population has much higher prevalence of risk behaviors at younger ages than adolescents in regular schools.Further, these youth are at much greater risk of abusing drugs, being involved with legal authorities, being from single family households, having lower social support, having academic difficulties and learning disabilities, having suicide ideation and depression, and living in poorer communities. In adapting the program, therefore, we face the challenge of making the program fit the setting and students in alternative schools.