Kappa Alpha Psi joins PGSO's "Teddy Bear" Partnership to help children affected by Domestic Violence

The Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Upper Marlboro-Waldorf chapter, in partnership with the Fort Washington, MD and Bowie Mitchellville alumni chapters presented Chief Assistant Sheriff Colonel Darrin Palmer and the Office of the Sheriff 100 Teddy Bears to become official “Teddy Bear” partners with the agency. The teddy bears are used by deputies in the Domestic Violence Intervention Division (DVID) to comfort children they encounter in chaotic domestic situations when responding to domestic violence calls for service.

Colonel Palmer thanked Kappa Alpha Psi for joining the teddy bear partnership and for their continued involvement with the Office of the Sheriff’s continuing efforts to end domestic violence for their support of the Sheriff’s “Purple Light Nights” Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign, which the fraternity participated in last year.

 Kappa Alpha Psi is the second oldest existing historically Black Greek Letter Fraternity and the 1st intercollegiate Fraternity incorporated as a national body. It remains the only Greek letter organization with its Alpha Chapter on Indiana University's campus. The Fraternity has over 125,000 members with 700 undergraduate and alumni chapters in nearly every state of the United States and International chapters in Nigeria, South Africa, the West Indies, The United Kingdom, Germany, Korea, and Japan.