Serving The Greensboro, North Carolina Community And Surrounding Areas Since 1946
Guide Right Program
Guide Right is our National Service Initiative and includes all our youth oriented programs. However, the Flagship Initiative of the Guide Right Service Program is the Kappa Leadership Development League (Kappa League). Guide Right is a program of the educational and occupational guidance of youth, primarily inspirational and informative in character. The purposes of the Guide Right Service Program is to place the training, experience and interest of successful men at the disposal of youth. We focus on developing leadership, creating an achievement mindset, and mentoring. We have mentored over 500,000 young people.
GUIDE RIGHT IS THE OLDEST, MOST SUCCESSFUL MENTORING PROGRAM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COLOR!
Current Guide Right Objectives
To Create the Next Generation of Leaders via Leadership Development.
Prepare students for college.
Mentor students to college graduation.
To positively impact youth through mentoring and training.
To prepare youth for academic success in middle school, high school and college.
History Of Guide Right
Conceived in 1922 by Leon W. Stewart, and suggested at the twelfth Grand Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi®, Guide Right became the fraternity’s national service program.
Leon Steward is the founder of the National Guide Right movement of Kappa Alpha Psi® Fraternity, Inc. and Past Western Province Polemarch. Soon after the St. Louis Alumni Chapter’s beginning in 1921, Leon W. Steward and J. Jerome Peters were assigned to research possible programs that would assist in developing the youth of the Black community and to devise a “meaningful and practical approach” to the problem of Black youth underachievement.
Ultimately, Brother Steward, proposed a program of guidance to be designated as Guide Right, with the purpose of assisting high school seniors to choose and pursue useful careers.
The focus of Guide Right, from its inception, was to provide scholarships to needy and talented students, and to inform young people of the professions and other career options.
Guide Right is administrated by a National Director and a Guide Right Commission. The Guide Right Commission consists of the Director and twelve Province Guide Right Coordinators, one from each Province, appointed by their respective Province Polemarchs.
The Director is uniquely qualified to perform the duties of this office and is appointed by the Grand Polemarch. He prepares such directives as are necessary for the successful and efficient observance of this National movement.
He also edits and prepares the Manual for the universal use of Undergraduate and Alumni chapters.
The programs of Guide Right are “Kappa League”, “Kappa Alpha Psi Scholarship”, “A-MAN”, and the premier program, “Kamp Kappa”, which enables inner city boys to attend camp in Mississippi.