Guide Right, the national service program of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., was conceived in 1922 by Leon W. Steward and formally proposed at the fraternity’s Twelfth Grand Chapter. Brother Steward, a Past Western Province Polemarch, is recognized as the founder of the National Guide Right movement.

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Following the establishment of the St. Louis Alumni Chapter in 1921, Leon W. Steward and J. Jerome Peters were tasked with exploring ways to better support the development of youth in the Black community. Their work focused on creating a meaningful and practical response to the challenge of educational underachievement.

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From this effort, Brother Steward proposed Guide Right as a structured program of guidance designed to help high school students identify and pursue productive career paths. Since its inception, Guide Right has emphasized scholarship support for talented students with financial need, while also exposing young people to a wide range of professional and career opportunities.

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Guide Right is the oldest, most successful mentoring program for young people of color, having mentoried over 500,000 young people.

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Today, Guide Right is an umbrella program to support boys earlier in the education pipeline. The Columbus (OH) Alumni Chapter's Guide Right effort focuses on fourth grade boys at East Linden Elementary School.

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