PSU History
Dr. Uretsky has been a faculty member and has led the School Social Work Licensure Program since 2016.
Experience
Dr. Uretsky has more than a decade of practice experience with youth and families in schools and community settings. This has included including work as a para-educator, leading district-level services and programming for students experiencing homelessness, running group interventions to help parents manage externalizing behaviors in youth, and supporting non-governmental agencies in Mexico, Thailand, and South Africa.
Academic/Research Interests
The overall goal of Dr. Uretsky's work is to support positive academic, behavioral, and economic outcomes for youth as they move through school and transition into adulthood. His scholarship aims to understand how individual, family, and ecological systems contribute to inequalities in academic, behavioral, and labor market outcomes, in hope of informing practice and policy. His recent scholarship has focused on understanding the academic and workforce pathways of students who do not graduate high school in four years with a particular focus on persisting students.
Personal Interests
When Mathew is not working you can usually find him hanging out with his kids, gardening, or drawing snails and other odd garden creatures.