TASC's mission is to minimize local stray cat populations via the humane, proven effective practice of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and related efforts. Those efforts include placing into adoptive or foster homes the kittens and friendly strays found during TNR projects, heightening public awareness, and recruiting more volunteers in order to make a bigger difference faster. Monitoring the cats at street level means that fewer kittens are born outdoors, fewer turn up in shelters competing for forever homes, and the health of cats that are returned to their outdoor colonies after sterilization and vaccination is significantly improved.