Denise Robbins began as a volunteer and continued to do so for over a year when she was asked to take over the staff position overseeing our after-school program.  In addition, in late 2007 she became our Food Program Coordinator.  She has been the senior staff member for our mission since then.  She is responsible for the daily oversight of the mission’s activities, exercising authority when necessary, making decisions in the absence of the director, working directly with clients and overseeing food distributions.  Denise also handles new client sign-ups.  She does all this while raising a family of 4 as a recently widowed single parent.