Intergenerational Trauma: A Woman's Journey

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Marsha Oss has 38 years of lived experience in recovery and started volunteering in Idaho’s Prisons after one year of sobriety. She has worked inside and outside correctional institutions, hospitals, and treatment agencies as a Correctional Officer and SUD Counselor. She owned an outpatient facility in Idaho between the years 2008-2013, offering SUD Education, Relapse Prevention, and various Cognitive-Behavioral groups serving justice-involved individuals exclusively. Marsha relocated to Alaska from Idaho in 1996 and went to work for Tanana Chiefs Conference’s Community Health Department, traveling the Interior of Alaska providing prevention education and chaperoning elders & youth for Denakkanaaga. In 1998, she moved through the positions of Primary Counselor, Clinical Supervisor, and Acting Director of Old Minto Family Recovery Camp. Ms.Oss was the Fairbanks Reentry Coalition Case Manager, helping justice-involved individuals return to the community from 2017-2022. Marsha joined the City of Fairbanks in 2022 as the Reentry Coalition Coordinator and completed her A.A. and B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with Minors in Justice, Political Science, and History through UAF in 2022. She currently holds an NCAC-I and is certified through Alaska as a CDC/BHC II and Idaho as a CADC. She is certified in Alaska as a Traditional Peer Support Specialist III. Other training includes Suicide Prevention, Grief Specialist, and Domestic Batterer’s Education Facilitator.