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Guide Right

Guide Right encompasses many of our youth oriented programs such as mentoring, college preparatory programs, and tutoring. 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 friendly interest of successful men at the disposal of youth needing inspiration and counsel regarding their choice of a life’s career, and to arouse the interest of the entire community in the problems of youth as they seek to realize lives of usefulness.

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

To learn by interaction, doing and group dynamics

Core Initiatives

STEM: Activities include getting involved with NSBE Jr, STE Career Fair, Utilize code.org for free programming training. Microsoft Retail stores offer free STEM training.

College Success: Mentoring for college. 90% Graduation Rate. Facilitate Undergrad/Alumni partnership for the mentoring College Prep Series Naviance an online tool to assist students in preparing for college; Diamonds in the Rough webinars (DITR); FAFSA Awareness; College Signing Day, recognizing graduating high school seniors going to college.

Positive Video Reporting – KLTV: Creating positive video recordings of Guide Right achievements.

History

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 Director

Edgar L. Rayford (E.R) serves as the Guide Right Director for the San Antonio Alumni Chapter. He has always been dedicated to mentoring youth and helping them succeed. Brother E.R. has a strong commitment to educating young boys on how to excel in their future endeavors as they transition from high school to the next phase of their lives. Together with Brothers Alvin Brown and Wil Schemedes, he founded the San Antonio Kappa League in September 2013. Since its inception, the San Antonio Kappa League has experienced significant growth and has seen many young men achieve remarkable success in their careers.

Brother E.R. attributes his passion for developing future leaders to his father, Levester Rayford, who taught him the importance of guiding the next generation towards greatness. He encourages the boys in Kappa League and Guide Right to strive for excellence, stay focused on their goals, and work hard to achieve them. By listening to their parents and following the guidance of their mentors, Brother E.R. believes that these young men can achieve their full potential and attain success.

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Current Guide Right Objectives

Core Initiatives

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