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Grace E. Davis has spent over two decades in intensive study and clinical research in the fields of childhood trauma, childhood development, and the human grieving process.
Grace graduated cum laude from California State University Fresno (CSUF), with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She is accredited as a public health nurse/registered nurse, holds a California health and development credential, and has taken advanced classes in early childhood education. She completed an independent study on childhood trauma and children’s hospice in London and Oxford, England, and attended the Tenth International Conference on “Children in Turmoil” in Dublin, Ireland in 1982.
Grace’s thirty-nine-year nursing career included fourteen years as a school nurse in Fresno County special education schools for the severely disabled. She developed and conducted in-service classes on childhood loss for teachers, parents, and children and taught a unit on childhood trauma at CSUF. She spent eight years in the field of hospice care, and helped develop a hospice program under the guidance of Sister Raphael, director of St. Agnes Hospice of Fresno. Her first book, Helping Your Young Child Face the Reality of Death, was published in 1986.
Grace was born on a farm near Redfield, South Dakota – the seventh of thirteen children. She now lives in Fresno with her husband, RW Pengilly. She has two children, four grandchildren, and one great grandson. She also has two step children, and two step grandchildren.