Guide Right Program

Guide Right is a program for the educational and occupational guidance of youth, primarily inspirational and informational in character. Its reach extends to high schools and colleges alike. In the latter, giving due attention to the needs of undergraduate Brothers.

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. Jesse Jerome Peters, later to become the eighth Grand Polemarch, was chairman of the committee, during the administration of W. Ellis Stewart as Grand Polemarch.

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.

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 at Hemlock Overlook Park in Clifton, Virginia.

^{St. Jude and Sunday of Hope}

^{In July 2005, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. announced St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as its national philanthropic partner. Since that time, members across the country have joined in the fight against childhood catastrophic diseases by raising more than $100,000 for the children at St. Jude. This donation represents the largest donation that Kappa Alpha Psi has ever donated to a charity.}

^{Members of Kappa Alpha Psi have taken on a new challenge to raise $500,000 in five years to name the main lobby of the Translational Trials Unit (TTU) located on the St. Jude campus. Some of St. Jude’s most unparalleled advances are housed in the TTU including translational medicine, the HIV/AIDS program and the Sickle Cell Clinic. St. Jude now has one of the largest pediatric Sickle Cell research and treatment programs in the world.}

^{To reach the new goal, members of Kappa Alpha Psi will be asking churches in their local communities to host a Sunday of Hope during the month of January to celebrate the month of the fraternity's founding. Members of Kappa Alpha Psi will host a presentation about St. Jude and ask the church members to give a special offering on behalf of the patients and families at St. Jude.}