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A coalition led by public health profes-sionals adopted the PRECEDE-PROCEED model for community planning and health promotion to eliminate local disparities in HIV disease. Discussion groups and other formative evaluation activities conducted during the ®rst year of the project maximized input from com-munity members and community-based orga-nizations. Twelve of 53 ZIP-code areas, which accounted for 73 % of reported AIDS cases among Black and Hispanic young adults (18 to 39 years) from 1994 through 1999, were se-lected as the primary sites for intervention. Horizontal outreach to residents, vertical out-reach to stakeholders and gatekeepers, strate-gic communications, and capacity building and infrastructure development, were chosen as the most promising activities to promote be-havioral and social change. Results from base-line computer-assisted telephone-interview (CATI) surveys completed with 2,011 com-munity residents in 2001, and ®rst-year follow-up interviews with 2,381 in 2002, indicated that: awareness of program efforts had in-creased from 5.4 % in 2001 to 6.7 % in 2002; recognition of the extent of the HIV/AIDS problem had increased from 27.5 % in 2001 to 35.3 % in 2002; and participation in HIV-pre-vention efforts had increased signi®cantly. In-terventions are reaching the target audience, informing young adults of the risks of HIV in-fection, and encouraging them to take own