It is run as a nonprofit corporation in partnership with the business community in Anchorage. The school has a GED program, but its primary emphasis is on personality development, parenting skills, life stabilization, and employability skills.
Students are teen mothers on welfare, long-term dropouts, homeless youth, and others.
Ninety-seven percent of the students qualify for Title I and 60 percent meet the federal definition of homeless. Students enrolled during the 1995-96 school year were parents to a total of 30 babies. Since the grant ended the Anchorage school district has paid for materials and personnel, while local businesses have supported the program with in-kind assistance such as a discounted lease agreement, discounted rental rates for transportation, free printing, food, recreational activities, and many other products and services. Businesses in the mall employ some of the youths in the program. Business people are often speakers at the school, talking to students about what it takes to survive in the work world and often relating the problems they encountered earlier in life.