Melissa Bird

Biographic Data

ID6532117
NAMEMelissa Bird
GIVEN NAMESMelissa
FAMILY NAMEBird
SIGNATUREBIRD M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Healthy Teachers, Healthy Schools

    Open AccessHayley Morrison, Melissa Bird et al.ARTICLEHealth Education Journal2025

    Objectives and Setting: Student physical and psychosocial health is an area of concern in Canadian schools, as poor health can be a disrupting factor to both academic performance and quality of life. The Comprehensive School Health (CSH) approach is an internationally recognised framework that can promote student health and academic outcomes in post-secondary settings. However, it is not known how the CSH framework can be embedded within post-sec…

  • Life Goals Over Time Among Homeless Adults in Permanent Supportive Housing

    Open AccessSuzanne L Wenzel, Harmony Rhoades et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…2018Cited by: 3References: 44

    Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is a widely‐accepted solution to the challenge of chronic homelessness. While housing support and retention, physical health, and healthcare continue to be important for formerly homeless persons in PSH, “higher‐order” and humanistic needs such as thriving have received less attention and as a result are less well understood in this population. One important indicator of thriving is the ability to establish and …

  • Life goals and gender differences among chronically homeless individuals entering permanent supportive housing

    Melissa Bird, Harmony Rhoades et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Distress and…2017

    This research seeks to understand goals and the gender differences in goals among men and women who are transitioning into permanent supportive housing. Because of systemic gender inequality, men and women experience homelessness differently. Data collected for this study come from a longitudinal investigation of HIV risk behavior and social networks among women and men transitioning from homelessness to permanent supportive housing. As part of t…

  • Reproductive Health in the United States

    Rachel L Wright, Melissa Bird et al.ARTICLESocial Work2015

    Reproductive health is an important area affecting a woman's overall health and well-being. The examination of reproductive health and barriers to care is pertinent to the social work profession and should be a focus of social work practice, education, research, and advocacy. The authors conducted a literature search of articles published in the social work literature from 2010 to 2014. The findings reveal important published articles that increa…

  • STD and Abortion Prevalence in Adolescent Mothers With Histories of Childhood Protection Involvement

    Open AccessJulie A Cederbaum, Emily Putnam-Hornstein et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Sexual and…2015Cited by: 1References: 2

    To assess whether adolescents with a history of CPS involvement need targeted sexual health interventions, further research is needed on the mechanisms that underlie associations between CPS involvement and adverse sexual health outcomes

  • Social Justice Advocacy in the Belly of the Beast

    Open AccessMelissa BirdARTICLEAffilia2015Cited by: 5References: 1

    This article presents an experience of applied social justice advocacy to maintain and advance women’s reproductive rights and is a call to action for the entire social work profession. The reader is offered a strategy that can be used to effect broad policy change in all political climates. Drawing upon some fundamentals of the social work profession such as coalition building, advocacy engagement, and stakeholder outreach, this article shows ho…