Patty Davis is a licensed clinical social worker who joined Children’s Mercy Hospital in 2001. She currently serves as a program manager for Trauma Informed Care, moving the healthcare system toward a trauma informed organization through awareness building and institutional changes.
Patty has a long history of treating children and families for traumatic stress through evidence-based practices such as Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Parent Child Interactive Therapy.
She serves as an executive board member of Alive and Well Communities, a tri-state, community-wide effort focused on reducing the impact of toxic stress of racism and trauma on health and wellbeing and is a co-founder and past president of Missouri Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, whose mission it is to optimize wellbeing in the early years by promoting first relationships and advancing effective infant mental health practice.
