Bridgeway Honors Mark Williams

Bridgeway Honors Mark Williams: Nurse, Advocate, Volunteer, Activist, Friend

Mark Williams has touched thousands of people throughout his career as a psychiatric nurse, and decades as an ally to anyone who needed his support. Mark became known to Bridgeway when Cory Storch, CEO, recognized his gifts, and asked him to serve as a Board Trustee for Bridgeway, where he ultimately served as the Chair of Bridgeway’s Board of Trustees. NAMI NJ also recognized Mark’s gifts and he is currently serving as President of the NAMI NJ Board of Trustees. Mark was serving as a Board Trustee for Woods Services, a Pennsylvania-based multi-service population, health-focused organizaon dedicated to serving children and adults with developmental, intellectual and behavioral health disabilities, when the idea of a formal Woods-Bridgeway collaboration was born. Mark was instrumental in Bridgeway’s affiliation with the Woods System of Care, a partnership that will launch a future of long-lasting benefits to people needing behavioral health services, as well as far-reaching benefits for the NJ health care system.

Along with Bridgeway, NAMI NJ, and the Woods System of Care, Mark has worked tirelessly to promote CIT initiatives in New Jersey – Crisis Intervention Training for law enforcement personnel – and NJ’s Stigma-Free Zone movement, as well as being an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Mark is a practicing humanist, with a deep devotion to his family and friends, who has a hard time turning down an invitation to attend a concert, play golf, or go fishing.

Bridgeway honored Mark’s extraordinary contributions with the 2024 Distinguished Service Award at this year’s Chairperson’s Dinner on April 17, 2024.