Jean Farthing holds Moochie and Chip, two formerly stray cats that she rescued and adopted. Ms. Farthing attended the 12-week Step Up to Leadership Class offered by the Community Action Partnership. She said the class helped her decide to work on developing a better citywide system to help stray cats find homes. ‘I hope to be a kind of intermediary between people and cats,’ she said. Photo by August Kryger