Dr. Naomi Paget BCC

Dr. Naomi Paget BCC

Dr. Naomi Paget BCC is the immediate past Chair of the National VOAD Emotional & Spiritual Care Committee. She served on committees that codified Disaster Spiritual Care procedures and competencies. These national standards have elevated disaster spiritual care to a significantly recognized hallmark of excellence.

Her work in critical events and disasters has officially spanned 58 years beginning with the American Red Cross and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.

Recently retired from the FBI, Naomi served for 27 official years as a Chaplain and Crisis Interventionist, deploying after many nationally remembered traumatic events, including the terrorist attack on 9/11, the deaths of 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Columbine High School shooting, the Aurora Theater shooting, the Santa Fe High School shooting, and many other tragedies.

Working with the FBI, SBC, Red Cross, BGR, Send Relief, ICISF, and Doctors Without Borders, Naomi has led teams deployed to many traumatic international events such as the Great Earthquake of China, the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor failure in Sendai, Japan, the escape of 5000 Yezidis nationals as they fled ISIS, the earthquake in Nepal, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Province of Cebu in the Philippines. Domestically, Naomi has responded to major weather events, shootings, fires, floods, and almost every type of disaster working with National VOAD and several other humanitarian relief agencies. Instructor, curriculum writer, awarded Fellowship in the American Association of Experts in Traumatic Stress, awarded Fellowship in the National Academy of Crisis Management, she is the recipient of many national awards and recognition, including lifetime achievement, dedicated service, outstanding service, distinguished alumni, and outstanding leadership for many organizations and agencies.

Naomi is a published author who has also created curricula for more than two dozen crisis intervention and stress hardiness courses for first responders, peer supporters, chaplains, mental health providers, and other crisis interventionists. Naomi anticipated the COVID-19 pandemic and wrote a book and training course for the Ministry in Pandemic, two years before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.

She is an ICISF Faculty and Approved Instructor for many crisis and trauma courses and a K-LOVE Crisis Response Care Faculty consulting for several national and international organizations, coaching teams, agencies, organizations, military, ecclesial bodies, educational institutions, care-providing organizations representing many other faith traditions, and healthcare systems. Naomi is an adjunct professor for Masters and Doctoral students at Gateway Seminary, Denver Seminary, and Crown College.

Providing crisis intervention, consultation, and strategic planning, Dr. Paget has provided trauma-informed care and education on every continent after crises, war, violence, and disasters of every kind. Naomi is an active member of First Baptist Bellville in Texas where she currently resides.