The Social Work faculty emphasizes a close mentoring relationship with students and an atmosphere of concern for the educational experience of each individual. As a result, faculty members are available to meet with students on a frequent basis outside of class to discuss academics, professional development, career goals, internships, or any other topics related to the student's educational program. Three full-time faculty members stress the importance of active engaged learning in the classroom and invite full participation by students in the teaching-learning interaction through such means as group problem-solving, role-playing, case studies, classroom presentations, and interactive exercises, in addition to the more traditional lecture and discussion method. The faculty is highly committed to modeling the use of the strengths perspective in practice and helps students in the social work program develop and utilize their own assets, resources, and capabilities in the practice of generalist social work.
Joan A, Pollack, MSW, LCSW, MHSA, Program Director 
Joan A. Pollack, Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work, BA, Sacred Heart University; MSW, Fordham University; MHSA, Antioch/New England. Her specialization in teaching focuses on social welfare policy, programs, and services; generalist practice; family systems; and human behavior. Professor Pollack's practice experience includes working with abused and neglected children, pregnant teens, and drug and alcohol addictions. She has worked extensively as a mental health clinician with children, adolescents, adults, families, and the elderly population; she developed and directed a home for pregnant single women; she served as District Executive Director of Catholic Family Services Stamford, Darien, and Greenwich; and was employed as Director of Fund Development for the Girl Scouts of Housatonic Council. Professor Pollack is an LCSW, a member of the NASW where she is a past president of the Connecticut Chapter, and she is also a member of the Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors' Association. Professor Pollack taught in the BSW Program at Sacred Heart University as an adjunct faculty member from 1987 through 2007, becoming a full-time faculty member in 2008. She has served as Director of the Baccalaureate Social Work Program since July 2008.
Contact info:
Main Academic Building, Room HC 219A
Ph: 203-365-4451
Fax: 203-365-4892
Email: pollackj@sacredheart.edu
Annette M. Bailey, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Field Education 
Annette M. Bailey, Assistant Professor of Social Work, BA, Sacred Heart University; MSW, Fordham University; Ph.D., Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. Bailey's doctoral research focuses on a comparison of the roles, tasks, and characteristics of school-based mental health social workers and school social workers. She also specializes in the study and practice of emergency mental health services, post-traumatic stress disorder, medical social work, school social work, conflict management, child welfare services, and infant mental health services. She has worked with the American Red Cross since 1977 and provides national disaster mental health services. Dr. Bailey's teaching responsibilities include beginning level and advanced social work practice courses and field education. Dr. Bailey has been a member of the social work program faculty and Coordinator of Field Education since 2001.
Contact info:
Main Academic Building, Room HC 219B
Ph: 203-371-7769
Fax: 203-365-4892
Email: baileya@sacredheart.edu
Elaine B. Davis, DSW, Associate Professor
Elaine B. Davis, Associate Professor of Social Work, BA, Connecticut College; MSW, University of Connecticut; DSW, City University of New York Hunter College School of Social Work. Dr. Davis has conducted research on the involuntary client-worker relationship, child welfare services, and group work services. Her specialization in teaching focuses on human behavior, theories of human development, family systems, generalist practice, and field education. Dr. Davis maintains a high level of professional activity through her membership in the National Association of Social Workers, the Council on Social Work Education, and the Baccalaureate Program Directors' Association. Her practice experience includes work with children and families in a community-based social service agency, medical social work, residential services for individuals with developmental disabilities, and work with the elderly. Dr. Davis has been a member of the Social Work Program faculty since 1980, and served as Director of the Program from 1987 through 2008.
Contact info:
Main Academic Building, Room HC 219C
Ph: 203-371-7762
Fax: 203-365-4892
Email: davise@sacredheart.edu
Maggie McCranor, Academic Program Assistant
Contact Info:
Main Academic Building, HC Suite 219
Ph: 203-371-7941
Fax: 203-365-4892
E-Mail: mccranorm@sacredheart.edu