About RECTIFY & Our Team

Name: RECTIFY
Address: 604 N Chester St, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
Telephone: (410) 656-4111

RECTIFY is a Trauma-Informed Peer Support Reentry Organization. We operate from a person-centered approach and were founded by individuals with decades of lived experience in the criminal justice system. RECTIFY understands firsthand the many challenges facing our citizens returning home from incarceration. We have set out on a mission to RECTIFY the current state of affairs concerning the treatment, perceptions, and quality of services provided to formerly incarcerated people and their families.

Our Team consists of clinical professionals, businessmen/women, academics, students, para-professionals, formerly incarcerated persons, and family advocates all shining a light on what it means to be Justice Impacted.

RECTIFY is the embodiment of community building. It is our philosophy that the structure of the community is built from the bottom up and those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. Equitable reintegration must be supported from the inside out. This includes all that are touched by the process.

Program Manager


Catherine P. Abrams LCSW-C, CAC-AD, RPS	Founder & Clinical Program Manager
Desmond Haneef Perry	Co-Founder & Manager of Peer Programs

Advisory Committee Members


Nicholas Garber	Treasurer


Joseph Gerstein, MD, FACP	Advisor

Mission

RECTIFY's mission is to provide peer support and trauma-informed services for equitable reintegration and community transitions.

Vision

RECTIFY seeks to rectify the harms caused by mass incarceration by helping to provide a platform for our men and women to safely return home from incarceration while also assisting our communities in beginning the healing process. RECTIFY dreams for Maryland to become the first trauma-informed criminal justice system with the capacity to prevent and address the traumas seen throughout our communities.